Something went wrong during the installation. Please reinstall Origin [ Edited ]

[Cerberus-Shepard]

so today i decided to restart my system and then loaded origin it attempted to update then i received the above message it happened twice after a quick goggle searching i find this exact issue is over a year old and has no official fix what the * is wrong with origin? are they trying to drive people away with their client?

its slow

its dated

it cant even update itself properly 

are they going to fix the * t thing or just leave it and call it a "feature"?

perhaps they should scrap their client and just release everything on steam/GoG since they actually * work and update without issues

[spitfiresiemion · Accepted solution]

What worked for me (as I had this issue at least 3 or 4 times) was quite simple... I logged out of Origin, made sure that Origin.exe is not running and deleted Origin folder (not Origin Games though). Then I rebooted my laptop, downloaded Origin installation file from the official Origin site and installed it from the scratch. That's more or less it.

[spitfiresiemion · Accepted solution]

What worked for me (as I had this issue at least 3 or 4 times) was quite simple... I logged out of Origin, made sure that Origin.exe is not running and deleted Origin folder (not Origin Games though). Then I rebooted my laptop, downloaded Origin installation file from the official Origin site and installed it from the scratch. That's more or less it.

[MADrag0n]

Hello.
If nothing helped, try use my script for clean of Origin data and reinstall it. Download it, delete .txt in name and run it as Admin.

[EA_Nils]

@Cerberus-Shepard Hi,

Have you been able to try the suggestions posted? Let us know how you are getting on.

Cheers,

Nils

[Cerberus-Shepard]

spitfiresiemion solution seems to have worked for now and i have granted XP for it but i do not want to do this every time i restart  my computer  nor should i or anyone. it proves there is something seriously wrong with the origin client for this issue to still exist after 18+months. You would think that a company that can produce some incredible story's could at least create a simple distribution client that is not a bad joke

[spitfiresiemion]

To be fair, it should not happen after every reset... I had this problem only a couple of times since the year started, and I think that the only common point was that in both cases it happened after Windows updated itself.

[Straatford87]

@Cerberus-Shepard

The problem shouldn't occur again. If it does, then please reply to this thread with a dxdiag.