re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP Saturday, January 15, 2005 at 7:09 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by David (1 messages posted) Thanks. This last, step by step, explanation worked perfectly! On Friday, August 13, 2004 at 1:45 am, Phill Robinson-Welsh wrote: >Vicky - I know it's 10 months since you posted this, but others may find this reply >useful... >Having opened Regedit and navigated to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products you should >see several registry 'keys' which will be long alphanumeric strings (about 32 characters >in length), e.g. 017DB44EA17B3d11F9970006808AE88C > >Click on each of these in turn to see what application they relate to. The righthand >side of the Registry editor will display the product name. When you find, in my case, >MS Office XP Pro with Frontpage, you have the right key. Now, with the 32 character >code highlighted, right mouse click and select 'Rename'. Add the word 'REMOVED' to >the beginning of the string (not sure whether the word you use matters). That's >it! It worked for me. No more 'Preparing to Install' messages every time I launch >Excel (although one flashes up for a fraction of a second) - it launches fine, even >from selecting an xls file in Windows Explorer. > >Word of advice: before editing the registry, I suggest you right mouse click the >HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products node and select "Export". This will save the >current registry settings for this node and its children to a .reg file. This will >be useful if you need to restore the old registry settings. > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Phill Robinson-Welsh: Friday, August 13, 2004 at 1:45 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Borpe: Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 3:07 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Brian LaLonde: Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 1:03 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Fady: Tue, Jan 21, 2003, 8:58 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Bob: Tue, Jan 21, 2003, 9:49 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Seni Williams: Mon, Apr 21, 2003, 8:56 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Jay: Sat, Apr 2, 2005, 11:08 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Falcon: Sat, Apr 2, 2005, 11:32 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Giddel: Thu, Dec 22, 2005, 4:22 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Daniel Erlenbusch: Tue, May 27, 2003, 5:04 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Eric: Fri, May 30, 2003, 2:06 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (braincandy: Mon, Jun 30, 2003, 6:18 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Vicky: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 4:40 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Josh G: Thu, Oct 30, 2003, 6:36 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (John Burton: Wed, Mar 10, 2004, 3:00 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (RichInAZ: Mon, Apr 19, 2004, 9:01 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Phill Robinson-Welsh: Fri, Aug 13, 2004, 1:45 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (David: Sat, Jan 15, 2005, 7:09 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Borpe: Sun, Jan 16, 2005, 3:07 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Brian LaLonde: Thu, Aug 11, 2005, 1:03 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Steve Novosel: Tue, Nov 22, 2005, 7:11 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP (Marion: Sat, Aug 26, 2006, 11:30 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