Jephree:

I finallly at least found a way to shut down and or stop the Windows Installer popups this morning. I did a run msiexec.exe /unregistered and just left it that way. I have to go do some things and then when l come back I will do a run msiexec.exe /register and see if or if not the popups popup again on the next boot up and start up of some programs... If they do I will just leave it unregistered until whenever something needs to use the installer. I wrote the instructions on a card and placed it at the bottom of my monitor. It seems so far that nobody has a cure for my problem and I am getting tired of the long boot up time and the long time to start some programs...

It was taking about 5 to 10 minutes every time I wanted to start a program that brought these popups up and I was getting mighty tired of that stuff. Thats what made me mad a MSOffice/Word in the first place as when I wanted to use Word I would get the popups and then it would take 5 to 10 minutes before Word would come up and now it was happening everytime I wanted to start a program that would bring on the WInstaller popups.

If I would have known what a problem getting rid of Office was going to cause me I would have just left in on my computer and then went ahead and installed OpenOffice... Sometimes I have to learn things the hard way. Oh well with my memory problem I won't remember it very long...haha...

Thanks again for all of your effort to try to get rid of my problem.

Jim/olddawg
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I am back. I ran msiexec.exe /register and rebooted. Seems like no more real popups. I do get what I think is the same popup but it just flashes up and disappears so quickly one can't read anything. Plus my boot up and the starting of programs does it in the normal amount of time instead of taking a long time when the popups would come up...

For your information I got the idea to try this from:
support.microsoft.com/kb/315353 just for your information. The question posed at the start of the KB didn't exactly fit my problem but it had to do with MSI so I thought I would try it...

So I think we can close out this thread.

Again Jephree thank you so much for all of your help.

Jim/olddawg