re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Friday, May 8, 2009 at 10:52 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by vasudev (1 messages posted) Thanks a lot Pavel. Your tip gave me an excellent help.I am also in habit of running softwares like windows washer which are considered very good ones for removing junk files from windows. But for last some days, when i tried opening any MS Office application like word, Power point, excel etx, it gave a message of G(Which is my setup locatio drive):\.... \ .....\ Data.bak not found. I just went to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Data.dat , copied this dat file to the location where the installtion prompted me, changes its name to Data.bak and restarted the applications.It really worked. Many softwares like webroot windows washer consider all .bak files as junk and delete them. So be very cautious and note that this happens mostly when you enable the "Show hidden files & folders" option from control panel. After the hidden microsoft files ( eg are ntldr , ,bak etc )which are normally hidden and dont allow detection by third party softwares, now become visible and can be accidently deleted. So please disable the hidden files option always and enable only when you very critically need it. Thanks On Saturday, November 15, 2003 at 8:48 am, Pavel wrote: > >I also had the same problem for long time. But I finally found the culprit. It's >me. Actually the problem is not with Office but a quirk in the way it handles one >bakckup file. I like to clean up my hard drive by using various methods and one or >more of these will search for BAK files and delete them regardless. One of these >BAK files is excpected to be there by Office and if it is not.....gues what happens! >This file is called DATA.BAK. Do not delete it!!! > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' (Pavel: Saturday, November 15, 2003 at 8:48 am) There are presently no replies to this message. 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