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Windows Installer - What! Another Question?!

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by brooklynpk

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Everytime I start a program I get the pop-up, "Windows Installer - installing program." I try to cancel it, but it just comes back up again. What a time waster! I've got RegCure and ran that, to no avail. It happens with every program I start - not just Java, not just Microsoft programs - all of them. How can I get this to stop?

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by older mycroft

Sorry to tell you this, but it's YOU that is wasting time.

In the past, probably recently, you have installed a program and then gone off (on your desktop) to do something else. The installation, together with any resultant pop-up window, has become buried under whichever program screen(s) you had open at that time.

You've then shut your system down completely, without bothering about the install that you started earlier.

Now each time you invoke your system, 'Windows Installer' -(remember him?)- alerts you to the program that you never let finish.

If you don't cancel it, but let it run, it will [i][b]install[/i][/b] and then it will go away.

It's only doing what it is designed to do.

by jamesrl

My current work laptop recently had MS Project installed. But it won't stop popping up at start up and trying to reinstall it. If I let it run, it never finishes....

Windows installer is another quality piece of software from our favorite OS company.

James

by thumbsup2

If the software was installed under another user account (Administrator?) and they did not do a complete install (i.e. they left components set to "install on first use"), you will need to log in using the same account it was originally installed with, try to use the component that needs installed, then possibly feed it the CD/DVD if asked to do so. Once everything that is needed is installed under that original account, it won't ask again when logged in under different user accounts.

Personally, when I install, I never leave anything set to "install on first use". Either I do a complete install (or at least the components I need), or I disable components completely.

by the scummy one

Because if you are, many programs need to sync (installer
opens and runs). What happens if you let the installer finish?

by jamesrl

It was an install under my account which is an admin, to a remote software site. This is something new for us - new MS agreement, we used to have to buy media for installs. Its just a pain.

James

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