its corrupt installer. since letting it finish doesn't stop it, try doing
detect and repair in outlook. if that fails you'll need to remove the
installer cache.
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"Rodp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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37F35D7-53D9-4605-A971-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I had a catastrophic computer problem and did a fresh install of all
> software. Now when I run Outlook 2003 and hit send/receive, I get a
> message
> in the box that Windows is configuring Publisher 2007. Whether I let this
> process finish or hit cancel it still returns every time I run Outlook and
> do
> a send/receive.
>
> What is happening here. This seems mighty strange to me.
>
> Thanks for any help!