re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 1:20 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by ifurn0 (35 messages posted) i allways think its better to fix than to nuke so first off try here test each step and tell me what fixes.. here is the gist of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555175/en-us (that apply) try this: Unregister Windows Installer, and then reregister Windows Installer, go to dos/run and type: msiexec /unreg then: msiexec /regserver then try this: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/Windows-Installer-CleanUp-Utility.shtml i tried this but couldnt find keys :S Check if there pending installation/s: a. Empty "InProgress" Registry Key Check the following registry key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\InProgress and clean any entries that you find. b. Empty/Rename "PendingFileRenameOperations" Registry Key: Check the following registry key: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations and clean any entries that you find. still dont work... didnt think it would but it was woth a shot... ok to nuke installer go here... http://www.appdeploy.com/faq/detail.asp?id=77 download installer here http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/wininstallnt.html Written in response to: re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (ifurn0: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 12:47 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Gill: Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 4:00 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Merlin: Tue, Jun 10, 2003, 9:52 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Pheel: Wed, Jun 11, 2003, 6:20 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (BuilderBill: Thu, Nov 20, 2003, 4:21 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (bbbbbbbbb: Mon, Feb 2, 2004, 6:41 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (ubaid: Fri, Mar 12, 2004, 3:12 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Mark Kliethermes: Tue, May 4, 2004, 9:29 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (ifurn0: Wed, Jul 12, 2006, 12:47 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (ifurn0: Wed, Jul 12, 2006, 1:20 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Gill: Thu, Feb 28, 2008, 4:00 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Gill: Thu, Feb 28, 2008, 5:11 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (roy dunson: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 11:40 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