Urgent: Problem with installer 2.9.5823, Windows 32-bit

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Dear MiKTeX users and developers,

Happy new year! I'm sad to contribute to it with a bug 
report - and one that seems very urgent to me:

I've downloaded the Basic MiKTeX 2.9.5823 installer for 
Windows 32-bit, and run it (with administrator privileges), 
installing for everyone on my machine, but it stops with the 
following error:



An error occurred:
   source file: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\File\win\winFile.cpp
   source line: 413
   message: Invalid argument: path="C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 
2.9\miktex/bin/makeindex.exe"
   info: path="C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 
2.9\miktex/bin/makeindex.exe"



This is quite serious - I don't have a working MiKTeX 
installation at all, at the moment.

Is this a MiKTeX bug, or something related to my Windows 
system? I have Windows 7 Professional 32-bit.

I'm attaching the setup log.

Cheers!
J

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setup-2016-01-06-16-16.log (text/plain, 5.9 KB)

MiKTeX Setup 2.9.5800 Report

Date: Wednesday, January 06, 2016
Time: 16:14:51
OS version: Windows 7 Professional, 32-bit, Service Pack 1, build 7601
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: false
SharedSetup: yes
Setup path: C:\Users\XXXXXX\Downloads\basic-miktex-2.9.5823.exe
UserRoots: <none specified>
UserData: <none specified>
UserConfig: <none specified>
CommonRoots: <none specified>
CommonData: <none specified>
CommonConfig: <none specified>

Installation: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9
initializing setup service...
starting installer...
Loading package database...
starting package maintenance...
installation directory: "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9"
package repository: C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\mik5626
visiting repository C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\mik5626...
repository type: local package repository
loading lightweight database...
lightweight database digest: 54ea0fa70d691728424e98e36c71a060
going to install 9896 file(s) (169 package(s))
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An error occurred:
  source file: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\File\win\winFile.cpp
  source line: 413
  message: Invalid argument: path="C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex/bin/makeindex.exe"
  info: path="C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex/bin/makeindex.exe"
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