Windows Installer at startup

[Bob W]

Whenever my computer (XP with SP-2) starts up, "Windows Installer" appears
and has to be cancelled 3 times to get rid of it. This has occurred for the
past week -- since I reformated drive C, so I have a relatively clean C
drive with not many programs.

Before I reformatted, I received the same error every time I started MS Word
or Excel (2003). I did not receive the error at startup before
reformatting. Following the advice I saw somewhere I unchecked Norton
AntiVirus Office checking and that solved the problem.

Would appreciate anyone's ideas and advice. Thank you.

 

[Guest]

Windows installer should not be present if windows is installed properly.

Sounds like you did not correctly finish a windows installation and then
started again??

Suggest you start again and reinstall Windows on a newly formatted drive

 

[Bob W]

This is like burning the house down to get rid of a few ants.

Windows was installed and works fine. Remember this error also appeared
before my reinstallation under different circumstances.

 

[Vic Baron]

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

How to resolve Common "Windows Installer" Problems
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555175&Product=winxp