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re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' in WinXP with OfficeXP
Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 1:03 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brian LaLonde
(1 messages posted)
I just wanted to note that this step-by-step explanation worked for me, too.
Also, to clarify one thing, it's the registry "folder" with the 32 digit name that
you want to rename, not any of the keys or values inside that folder.
Peace.
On Saturday, January 15, 2005 at 7:09 pm, David wrote:
>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.
>
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