"Preparing to Install" pops up when opening up IE6, Explorer etc.

[Guest]

For some reason I am getting a window that pops up briefly that says it is
"preparing to install" everytime I open IE6, Explorer, Control Panel etc.
I have been searching for a clue hear but am very clueless.

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows Installer Appears Every Time a Program Is Started
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;265194

Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| For some reason I am getting a window that pops up briefly that says it is
| "preparing to install" everytime I open IE6, Explorer, Control Panel etc.
| I have been searching for a clue hear but am very clueless.
|
| Any help would be appreciated

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your prompt reply. Unfortunately, or rather fortunately,
Office programs open correctly. It is the Explorer, IE6, Control Panel etc.
that I get that pop up on.

On the second part, I used the Installer Clean up to remove my Earthlink
TotalAccess as it shows several event warnings for Earthlink in my event
viewer. I used the clean up utility as I couldn't remove it using
conventional add/remove in the control panel as it came back with "cannot
find TACORE.msi" to finish the uninstall. The add/remove program still shows
Earthlink software in there but there is no action taken when I click on it
just like it isn't there. Haven't rebooted yet, but the "preparing to
install" still pops up.

 

[Guest]

OK, clean uninstall, no traces left of Earthlink at all, but problem still
exists.
???? Perplexed in TX.

 

[Kirk Lundgreen]

OK, received an auto responder from Microsoft if I am happy with the
response. While I appreciate all the efforts the MVP's do here,
despite what I have researched, I have hit a dead end. Most answers
deal with the Microsoft Office problems. Mine is different. It only
happens when I open my Internet Explorer, or Windows Explorer, Search,
Control Panel, Network connections folders and such. I have done the
Installer cleanup, disable and enabled the Installer services, deleted
the system temp folders, and other things I can't even recall here.

Any ideas here?

Thanks