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re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 5:47 am Posted by Lare (1 messages posted) I had the same problem my screen it kept telling me to insert my windows xp cd in. I went to add or remove menu and found a program called bpsr installer i removed this installer and have not had that problem again. On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 1:30 am, Nick wrote: >I have a question about this Windows Intaller that always appear everytime i open >an Office XP application. > >I used Win98 OS before then, i upgraded it to Win XP, the problem appears everytime >i open an application, then I insert the CD for Office XP with Frontpage and an error >message appeared "The installation for the product is not available. Verify that >the source exist and that you can access it." What does it mean? > >I can't even uninstall the Office XP 'coz this Windows Intaller with appear. > >I already tried this enable windows installer and i click always but, still the same >thing happen. > >Could you please suggest or give me some details how to get rid of this problem. > >Thanks [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Saturday, November 15, 2003 at 8:48 am Posted by Pavel (1 messages posted) 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!!! On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 5:47 am, Lare wrote: >I had the same problem my screen it kept telling me to insert my windows xp cd in. > I went to add or remove menu and found a program called bpsr installer i removed >this installer and have not had that problem again. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 8:22 pm Posted by Aimee (1 messages posted) Where is the Data.bak file supposed to be located? I've been having the same problem and just can't fix it! 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!!! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Wednesday, December 15, 2004 at 7:34 am Posted by Mike King (1 messages posted) I found the file at "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Data". What I did was close all of my Office applications, and then I renamed the "data.bak" file to "data.bak.bak". Next, I started Outlook. Outlook told me it was installing something and I needed to insert the Office CD to continue. Then, I canceled the installation and close Outlook. Final, I renamed "data.bak.bak" back to what it was. This is how I solved the problem. I hope that this will work for you. On Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 8:22 pm, Aimee wrote: >Where is the Data.bak file supposed to be located? I've been having the same problem >and just can't fix it! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Friday, May 6, 2005 at 11:52 am Posted by Supermatter (3 messages posted) As in some of the previous messages the data.bak file was gone for me too and cause the windows installer problem each time i used office 2003... I fixed this by creating a text file and renaming it data.bak in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\OFFICE\DATA On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 1:30 am, Nick wrote: >I have a question about this Windows Intaller that always appear everytime i open >an Office XP application. > >I used Win98 OS before then, i upgraded it to Win XP, the problem appears everytime >i open an application, then I insert the CD for Office XP with Frontpage and an error >message appeared "The installation for the product is not available. Verify that >the source exist and that you can access it." What does it mean? > >I can't even uninstall the Office XP 'coz this Windows Intaller with appear. > >I already tried this enable windows installer and i click always but, still the same >thing happen. > >Could you please suggest or give me some details how to get rid of this problem. > >Thanks [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 4:40 pm 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'. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Monday, December 19, 2005 at 11:22 pm Posted by Lila (1 messages posted) I had this problem today as a result of a language settings issue. I had encountered a website today that required Japanese language installments. Little did I know, after I did this, the stupid xp installation window popped up every time I opened any office application and strange Japanese header marks appeared on my 255 page novel in Word!! It would not allow me to change xp language settings without installing the xp cd. I tried the installer cd and nothing worked!! The installer window kept popping up.So...what did I do? After hours of frustration, I restored my system to yesterday! Problem solved!! No more windows or strange Japanese symbols. I'm such a cheater! lol On Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 4:40 pm, kornflames wrote: >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'. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Friday, January 20, 2006 at 12:52 pm Posted by Plain (1 messages posted) I too have Installer problems and can`t get rid of it. It keeps demanding I insert Office XP for Students and Teachers which is no longer on my computer as my son is not here now. I`ve no gpedit.msc and am afraid I didn`t understand some of the other solutions. Can someone help me? Please type slowly,...I`m kinda computer stupid. Thanks, Plain On Monday, December 19, 2005 at 11:22 pm, Lila wrote: >I had this problem today as a result of a language settings issue. I had encountered >a website today that required Japanese language installments. Little did I know, >after I did this, the stupid xp installation window popped up every time I opened >any office application and strange Japanese header marks appeared on my 255 page >novel in Word!! It would not allow me to change xp language settings without installing >the xp cd. I tried the installer cd and nothing worked!! The installer window kept >popping up.So...what did I do? After hours of frustration, I restored my system to >yesterday! Problem solved!! No more windows or strange Japanese symbols. I'm such >a cheater! lol > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 8:25 pm Posted by Mark (1 messages posted) Probally an issue with old installer files. Try this, it is a tool from Microsoft to remove old installer files. Worked for me. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301 On Friday, January 20, 2006 at 12:52 pm, Plain wrote: >I too have Installer problems and can`t get rid of it. It keeps demanding I insert >Office XP for Students and Teachers which is no longer on my computer as my son is >not here now. I`ve no gpedit.msc and am afraid I didn`t understand some of the other >solutions. Can someone help me? Please type slowly,...I`m kinda computer stupid. > Thanks, Plain > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Monday, August 13, 2007 at 10:42 pm Posted by louis marotta (2 messages posted) please help me how do i get rid of it lou 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!!! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Friday, May 8, 2009 at 10:52 am 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!!! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum