Hi Rick,
Tried your suggestion but no luck! Any other thoughts?
John
"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Try this: Click start, type CMD and right click the entry in the start
> menu, choose 'run as administrator'. Click continue on the UAC prompt.
> From the command prompt, run these commands, hitting <enter> between each:
>
> msiexec /unregister
> msiexec /regserver
> exit
>
> The reboot and check to see that the behavior has stopped.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "John" <nospam@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:850B1630-55BA-4497-8DA6-FDB34C34E602@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just been setting up a new PC with Vista Ultimate. Adding my
>> application software was going OK but now every time I re-boot, put a
>> CD/DVD in the drive windows Installer pops up and comes up with
>> "Preparing to install" and then waits a few secs and stops. There is no
>> clue what it is trying to install.
>>
>> I Googled this problem and checked out a few web sites, notably ask Leo
>> at http://ask-leo.com/windows_installer...eboot_why.html and
>> then tried to use the Windows Installer Cleanup but again it is just not
>> clear what software is causing this. I have also used Max Registry
>> Cleaner but this does not seem to fix the problem.
>>
>> The only solution I can think of is to unload all software, reinstall
>> windows and start over. But it has taken me 2 days to get this far so I
>> am reluctant to do so
>>
>> Any ideas will be very welcome!
>>
>> John
>