msiexec.exe 100% CPU hog

[Peter M]

During startup, my machine has become increasingly SLOW for about 5 mins or
so, and I now discovered that msiexec is sucking up 80-90% of CPU resources,
rendering my system useless until msiexec decides to go away. why is msiexec
running, when I am not trying to install anything? how can i get rid of this
aggravating annoyance at startup?
thanx

 

[Malke]

During startup, my machine has become increasingly SLOW for about 5 mins
or so, and I now discovered that msiexec is sucking up 80-90% of CPU
resources, rendering my system useless until msiexec decides to go away.
why is msiexec running, when I am not trying to install anything? how can
i get rid of this aggravating annoyance at startup?
thanx

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worked and the time they didn't?

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Malke