Installer is always opening

MS Installer opens while WinXP is booting up. It opens when I click on
control panel, my documents, IE, new tabs opened in IE, MS Office. It will
open but not do anything and eventually clear itself and the correct window
appear (eg control panel screen).

I've tried reinstalling the installer, repairing the install of winxp,
reloading IE, to no avail.

Please help!

On Sep 19, 8:18*am, Sebearth <Sebea...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> MS Installer opens while WinXP is booting up. *It opens when I click on
> control panel, my documents, IE, new tabs opened in IE, MS Office. *It will
> open but not do anything and eventually clear itself and the correct window
> appear (eg control panel screen). *
>
> I've tried reinstalling the installer, repairing the install of winxp,
> reloading IE, to no avail. *
>
> Please help!

Enable verbose logging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Windows_installer#Diagnostic_logging) and check the created logs in
your temp folder.

Best regards,
Sebastian Brand

Instyler Software - http://www.instyler.com

That progress window appears when a product installed with an MSI-based
installer is broken. The event log (Application I think) should tell you
what the product is. You may see multiple entries.
--
Phil Wilson
Definitive Guide to Windows Installer
http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590592972


"Sebearth" <Sebearth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC7D39C7-B25F-4B1A-9A9B-6871A64653F1@microsoft.com...
> MS Installer opens while WinXP is booting up. It opens when I click on
> control panel, my documents, IE, new tabs opened in IE, MS Office. It
> will
> open but not do anything and eventually clear itself and the correct
> window
> appear (eg control panel screen).
>
> I've tried reinstalling the installer, repairing the install of winxp,
> reloading IE, to no avail.
>
> Please help!

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:43:59 -0700, "Phil Wilson" <phil.wilson@wonderware.something.com> wrote:

>That progress window appears when a product installed with an MSI-based
>installer is broken. The event log (Application I think) should tell you
>what the product is. You may see multiple entries.

The event log will normally show 2 entries, both of which are cryptic and extremely
unuseful as everything is reported by GUID, The dialog which is displayed should
contain the product name so it should be easy to match up event log messages by
time in your case.

With any luck one of those 2 messages will contain the "key" information such as
the name of a missing file or registry value. You could use 'SysInternals" process monitor or similar
tool to try and work out when it disappears (the install activity probably creates it).

I suppose it could be faulty install and may beworth trying uninstall then reinstall,
but more likely another product is interfering.

Bye,
Dennis
Dennis Bareis [Microsoft MVP] (dbareis@KillSpam.gmail.com)
http://dennisbareis.com/
Freeware Windows Installer creation tool (+ "ORCA automation"):
http://makemsi.dennisbareis.com/