re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 11:04 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Rory Rice (9 messages posted) Format your hard drive and reload XP from scratch; upgrading oveer ME is like paving a highway over quicksand. I didn't have you problems, but they were too numerous to list. I know others that had similar experiences. On Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 8:52 am, Gary Astorino wrote: >I have a question about Windows >Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application: > > >I have the same problem that Installer accesses my floppy disk drive everytime I >open an Office component. I also have tried to delete installer with no success >after trying the 3 options mentioned in the Annoyance section. I can't get a new >version of Installer to load. I had Windows ME and the problem started when I upgraded >to Xp - Pro. Now when I try to run a program that utilizes the installer it won't >load and if I try to install the version for 2000 or NT the program only says "I >am using Windows 95/98 version". Anyone - Help. Written in response to: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Gary Astorino: Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 8:52 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Gary Astorino: Thu, Feb 28, 2002, 8:52 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Rory Rice: Thu, Feb 28, 2002, 11:04 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 XP Discussion Forum