re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 4:40 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by kornflames (1 messages posted) a little workaround Click on Start->run, then type gpedit.msc then click on 'Ok'. Then go to 'Computer Configuration'->'Administrative Templates'->'Windows Component'->'Windows Installer'. Then click on the right pane on the setting that says 'Disable Windows Installer'. Click on 'Enabled' then select 'Always' from the dropdown box. Click ok and close the group policy application. Now try to reproduce your problem again, you should see the popup appear and then disappear making your life a lot easier. Should you need to install anything that requires the Windows installer, then just follow almost the same process, and set 'Disable Windows Installer' to 'Disabled'. Written in response to: re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Supermatter: Friday, May 6, 2005 at 11:52 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Lila: Monday, December 19, 2005 at 11:22 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Nick: Sat, Sep 6, 2003, 1:30 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Lare: Sat, Sep 6, 2003, 5:47 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Pavel: Sat, Nov 15, 2003, 8:48 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Aimee: Wed, Dec 3, 2003, 8:22 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Mike King: Wed, Dec 15, 2004, 7:34 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (louis marotta: Mon, Aug 13, 2007, 10:42 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (vasudev: Fri, May 8, 2009, 10:52 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Supermatter: Fri, May 6, 2005, 11:52 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (kornflames: Sun, Nov 20, 2005, 4:40 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Lila: Mon, Dec 19, 2005, 11:22 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Plain: Fri, Jan 20, 2006, 12:52 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Mark: Wed, Aug 9, 2006, 8:25 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 XP Discussion Forum