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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!
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