re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Monday, December 6, 2004 at 3:23 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Mona-Lynn (2 messages posted) My situation is similar but not identical. Suddenly today, when try to I open an Excel document the Windows Installer starts trying to load FrontPage (unsuccessfully) and I couldn't open Excel at all. My shortcuts to Excel in my Start menu and on my QuickLaunch were doing the same thing. I discovered that my shortcuts had somehow been remapped, so I deleted them, found the orignal excel.exe and tried using that. Now I can open Excel, but it still runs the Installer as well. If I hit "cancel" a couple times, it goes away and I can open files in Excel, except Help files: they just run the Installer and are unusable. Also in my Add/Remove programs FrontPage has appeared and I have never installed it. I am very suspicious of this and I suspect a virus. An hour's browsing on the Web have revealed a number of people with a similar (but not identical) problem but no solutions. This has me rather worried. I am using XP. Any suggestions? Thank you! Written in response to: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Nick: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 at 8:34 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (frank vh: Monday, January 3, 2005 at 5:06 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Nick: Tue, Jun 25, 2002, 8:34 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Jean-Marie Pierrard: Sat, Jun 29, 2002, 3:17 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Sergio: Tue, Oct 1, 2002, 5:41 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Luke: Mon, Jun 22, 2009, 7:28 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Phillip: Tue, Jul 30, 2002, 12:19 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Vaughn: Mon, Feb 17, 2003, 12:41 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (RonL: Tue, May 20, 2003, 3:16 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Andy Mc: Mon, Dec 5, 2005, 11:30 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Geoff Cooper: Wed, Aug 6, 2003, 4:10 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Mario: Sun, Jan 4, 2004, 7:43 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (John B: Thu, Mar 17, 2005, 8:06 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Carlos Lopes: Wed, Apr 6, 2005, 6:44 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (John B: Wed, Apr 6, 2005, 7:08 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Phil: Tue, Sep 24, 2002, 10:45 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Gaspode: Thu, May 8, 2003, 6:55 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (RonL: Tue, May 20, 2003, 11:04 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Phillip: Sun, Jan 4, 2004, 8:44 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Mona-Lynn: Mon, Dec 6, 2004, 3:23 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (frank vh: Mon, Jan 3, 2005, 5:06 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Mona-Lynn: Tue, Feb 8, 2005, 3:57 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (frank vh: Tue, Feb 8, 2005, 7:55 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Pat: Wed, Apr 13, 2005, 10:02 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Jim in Oz: Mon, Feb 19, 2007, 3:54 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Semmumisci: Sat, Apr 18, 2009, 2:43 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum