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The Windows Installer Service keeps triggering a repair operation (self-repair) of a package installed on my desktop. I am unable to find the cause and resolve the problem permanently.

How do I find out what is triggering the repair? Is there a list of likely causes somewhere?

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Endlessly repeating cycles of Windows Installer self-repair may have many different causes.

Here are a few angles on the subject with the first link providing a long list of possible causes:

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  • Please don't post a list of links as an answer. Even if the resources are on [SE], they might vanish, making this answer worthless. – Sven Aug 15 '14 at 15:16
  • Should this question be marked as a duplicate then? – Giovanni Tirloni Aug 15 '14 at 15:48
  • I can **1)** delete the whole answer, **2)** leave it as it is or **3)** duplicate the content here yielding only a **dual source problem** since I actively try to maintain the content of the article on stackoverflow.com. It is not really a problem for me, I just thought this self-repair issue relevant for both system administrators and developers. – Stein Åsmul Aug 15 '14 at 16:04