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This is a pesky problem that is driving me crazy. I sure hope to get help here!

After cancelling my earthlink internet access, I went to add/remove programs to remove their software–but their uninstaller failed. So I tried to remove all references from program files and the registry. What I am left with now is an annoying pop up which states “windows installer is preparing to install earthlink pop-up blocker”; then an error message #2718 – these both will appear 4-6 times —this occurs at startup, when opening msie, my computer, and just about anything else I click on. I am beside myself with frustration.

My efforts at resolution:

I have talked with Earthlink, to no avail. They don’t know the resolution, but they take you through h*** trying to act like they do!

I reinstalled Earthlink and then uninstalled it, and the problem still exists.

I have used Regcrawler to clean the registry and I got rid of all references to Earthlink there.

I searched the hard drive for “Earthlink” and deleted any and all files found.

I even reinstalled the OS – nothing works.

I have researched “Error msg #2718” until I am blue in the face, and nothing helps me out.

I believe it could be an installer problem, but can’t find a way to update or fix installer in Win XP, just in earlier versions of Windows. If the installer is corrupt, how can it be fixed? Microsoft says that Windows Installer 2 comes with WinXP, and there are no guidelines for fixing it or replacing it if it becomes corrupt.

This is about to send me over the edge!

Help!!! Please!!!

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Error msg #2718 is Missing package name for product code ‘[2]’.

You can look at the through this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/windows_installer_error_messages.asp

Try this to fix your problem it may work dunno know though!
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2Fdirectory%2Fworldwide%2Fen-gb%2Futility2.asp

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Thank you so very much! I applied a fix I found in your second link and I think the problem is solved. At least I have rebooted since I applied the fix and the problem hasn’t recurred.

Here’s what I did. The offending registry entry was 62329568-19B5-43CF-9524-3EE4DD709D01 (that’s the entry that was in the error message and when I manually deleted it from the registry, it always came back). I got the Windows Support Tools off my XP install CD, and then at a command prompt I entered msizap T {62329568-19B5-43CF-9524-3EE4DD709D01}. So far so good. You really made my day! Thank you.

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