re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application'
Friday, July 7, 2006 at 10:59 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jacklyn
(1 messages posted)
I'm having the same problem with a slightly different twist. When I open any of
the Microsoft Office programs, the Windows Installer appears on top with the message
"preparing to install". I click cancel several times and then a message appears
saying: Microsoft Outlook (or whichever program I'm trying to open) has not been
installed for the current user. This problem started after I downloaded the trial
version of Spring Clean and did a Quick Clean. Something got deleted that shouldn't
have or else there is some kind of glitch. Tried your solution but can't find any
of the files you say should be deleted to solve the problem. Thanks so much for
any help. I'm right in the middle of a project and can't get anything done now!!!
On Friday, July 7, 2006 at 6:51 am, Ron wrote:
>I had the same problem, and the ONLY SOLUTION that worked for me was to delete the
>program file, MSACCESS.EXE from the Office11 subfolder (or depending on the Office
>version you have, it may be named Office10 or Office9) under the "c:/Program Files/Microsft
>Office/" folder
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>deleting ALL instances of SYSTEM.MDW (repeated tries at installing may produce System1.mdw,
>System2.mdw, etc.). This file is found in the "c:\Documents and Settings\{your user
>name}\Application Data\Microsoft\Access" folder for WINXP, and the C:\Program Files\Common
>Files\SYSTEM" folder
>for earlier WIN versions.
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