re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 4:00 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Gill (30 messages posted) I followed the instructions here, and in appdeploy.com and solved the "Preparing to install" pop-up but some new problem came up, here's what I did, ------------ 1) msiexec /unregister 2) Renamed the files manually, Msi.dll, Msiexec.exe, and Msihnd.dll Most of them are in system32 if I remember right, 3) then I restarted Windows and installed Windows Installer 3.1 (WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86). Now the pop-up is gone but I'm facing new problems, When clicking on the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, this error message showed up, http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/7493/installercleanupmessagema4.jpg Also, Acrotray failed on startup because msi.dll was not found. ACDSee 8 also failed to load showing the same error mesage. http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6161/installercleanupmessagemb9.jpg Is Windows Installer 3.1 incompatible with some older programs or is something else causing this? ------------ On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 1:20 am, ifurn0 wrote: >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 1:20 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Gill: Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 5:11 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) 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