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XP: Windows Installer problem
I have an XP+SP3 laptop, and I downloaded and installed a program this morning.
The problem then arose that every time I tried to run that program, windows installer ran first, prompting for the insertion of the installation disk for a completely separate installed program. After numerous cancels followed by it prompting again, it eventually got the message that I wasn't going to insert any disks (I didn't have the disk anyway) and let run the program that I wanted.
I got around this problem by downloading and using the Windows Installed Clean Up utility to remove the entry for that second unrelated program, even though it would seem that if I want to remove that in future I will be forced in to simply delete files rather than uninstalling it properly.
But this is not the first time this has happened - in the past, trying to run some programs brought up a prompt to install the installation disk for a document viewer program, completely unconnected with what I was trying to run.
So why should this behaviour occur (it's only for a small minority of installs on my machine) and is it possible to prevent this behaviour in future?
The problem then arose that every time I tried to run that program, windows installer ran first, prompting for the insertion of the installation disk for a completely separate installed program. After numerous cancels followed by it prompting again, it eventually got the message that I wasn't going to insert any disks (I didn't have the disk anyway) and let run the program that I wanted.
I got around this problem by downloading and using the Windows Installed Clean Up utility to remove the entry for that second unrelated program, even though it would seem that if I want to remove that in future I will be forced in to simply delete files rather than uninstalling it properly.
But this is not the first time this has happened - in the past, trying to run some programs brought up a prompt to install the installation disk for a document viewer program, completely unconnected with what I was trying to run.
So why should this behaviour occur (it's only for a small minority of installs on my machine) and is it possible to prevent this behaviour in future?
Answers
The windows installer has been failing during updates for a couple of weeks now. although there is probably nothing wrong with the links above I would always down load windows updates and components direct from microsoft, not some third party site.
htt p://www.micr osoft....d6f 9f4&displayl ang=en
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06:24 Tue 11th May 2010
First thing is to update Windows Installer (if it isn't updated already)
No harm in re-installing it tho.
Try this first.
http://www.softwarepa...indows-installer.html
No harm in re-installing it tho.
Try this first.
http://www.softwarepa...indows-installer.html
The windows installer has been failing during updates for a couple of weeks now. although there is probably nothing wrong with the links above I would always down load windows updates and components direct from microsoft, not some third party site.
http://www.microsoft....d6f9f4&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft....d6f9f4&displaylang=en