Windows Installer Keeps Popping Up Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 8:54 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Rob Waterbury (1 messages posted) The windows installer keeps popping up saying "preparing to install" without specifying anything after that. This started when I started testing installations built by a number of the setup wizard (i.e. PDM, Visual Installer, Wise, etc.). Thus I think I may have built an incomplete setup that has corrupted my registry. I've tried fixing the problem with the msi clean up utility but it doesn't show any of the installations that I created. Also I've removed any of the installation programs that I can. If I try to install or uninstall an application, the windows installer pops up a message that the "service is not available cause we may be running in safe mode...contact an administrator". The only thing I can find on the web is this related KB article. I'm runnig SP6 of visual studio. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316911 Any help would be appreciated. There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Windows Installer Keeps Popping Up (Rob Waterbury: Sun, Mar 6, 2005, 8:54 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