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re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Thursday, December 21, 2006 at 4:17 am Posted by Pieter Robbertse (1 messages posted) I have the EXACT same plroblem. I'vr tried EVERYTHING, even re-installing Windows Installer. Nothing seems to help. I try and run orktools.exe but the system then tells me that it can't install orktools as I'm running windows in SAFE mode, WHICH I'M NOT!!! This is driving me crazy. My system is now so slow I can hardly use it!!! HELP!!!!! On Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 8:45 am, Matt Waldron wrote: >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? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Thursday, December 21, 2006 at 9:26 pm Posted by cpt (1134 messages posted) If you've recently installed SP2, Installer 3 isn't compatable. If that's the case, uninstall it. If that's not applicable, it could still be a bug in Office, in which case look in there even though you've already tried reinstalling it. If that still doesn't apply, consider any recent software installation. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Windows Installer Appears Every Time I Start an Application' Friday, December 22, 2006 at 5:47 am Posted by Matt Waldron (2 messages posted) It could have been installing V3 because I had Service Pack 2. It could also have been a manual delete of Office 2000. I tried to fix it with a repair install of Windows. That didn't work and I further disrupted my system by downloading Windows Security Updates before installing Service Pack 2. Several wouldn't install. I then tried to install Service Pack 2 and it failed. I've just finished backing up my data and am going to clean install Windows. [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