Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 8:45 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Matt Waldron (2 messages posted) I have a question about Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application: I have Windows XP Home. Everytime I restart Windows the Windows Installer screen comes up and it says it is Preparing to Install. It stays on the screen for a minute or so and then disappears. Now it is also appearing whenever I start an Office 2003 program and also IE6. (Not on Adobe Acrobat or other programs). It flashes rapidly several times and then disappears. It's even happening now when I hit Quick preview to look at my message for this forum. I tried reinstalling Office to no avail. I tried to implement the group policy snap-in mentioned in the article but found this is not available in XP Home. I did download Installer Version 3 some time ago. Is there a way to uninstall Installer and install it again from scratch? Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Pieter Robbertse: Thursday, December 21, 2006 at 4:17 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (cpt: Thursday, December 21, 2006 at 9:26 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Matt Waldron: Sun, Dec 17, 2006, 8:45 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Pieter Robbertse: Thu, Dec 21, 2006, 4:17 am) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (cpt: Thu, Dec 21, 2006, 9:26 pm) re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Matt Waldron: Fri, Dec 22, 2006, 5:47 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