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C# Setup Project - Faulting Application msiexec.exe, Faulting Module kernel32.dll

I have developped a (Windows Service) application in C#, .Net 3.5 and altogether with it a setup project. My installer worked perfectly fine for the first time, I could install it on my machine and the application was running as it should. Then I uninstalled it for a while and now, when I had to rebuild my setup project again - no incode modifications -I am given a message at install time which says

'The application has encountered a problem and needs to close'. However, it seems that the installation continues and in the end it says that 'The application was successfully installed'. I noticed that in the installation folder there is no *.Install file.

I checked the event log and the error message scares me off:

Faulting application msiexec.exe, version 4.5.6001.22159, stamp 480573de, faulting module kernel32.dll, version 5.1.2600.5781, stamp 49c4f482, debug? 0, fault address 0x00012afb.

I must say that exactly the same thing also happens on uninstall, and the application is removed with errors because it 'encounters a problem and needs to close'. Nonetheless, it uninstalls from the installation folder.

I've been looking all over on the Internet for a solution and still no idea how to overcome this issue. Is it somehow registry related, is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening?

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