Windows installer starts when starting D7

[PaulTECH]

On a Windows 7 machine when I start D7, the Windows Installer starts and begins configuring MS Office 2007.  When I cancel and start D7, a generic Windows Installer starts, I then cancel and start D7 again and it finally starts???

[Simon]

HI,

This sounds like a .MSI installation issue with which ever app runs when you run D7.

The general solution to these issues is to re-install that app. In this case re-install Office 2007 and all should be well.

Note this is an OS issue, not an issue with D7.

Kind Regards

Simon

[Foolish Tech]

Simon is right, there is something wrong/corrupted about the Windows installer entry for Office.  The only way I've 'solved' this (if you even really consider it an issue to begin with) in the past is by uninstalling, using the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility to remove the offending apps/MSI information from the registry, and reinstall the app.  

Don't ask my why Office apps might run fine without this happening or why D7 forces it to happen when starting up.  I've seen this happen maybe 3 times for me in the last 2 years, so it's very rare and because of this I've never been able to track down exactly what in D7's startup processes are triggering the Windows installer, but note it's not anything about Office in particular.  Last time I noted this behavior it was with HP printer software.  

[PaulTECH]

Thanks for the reply's.  I started up MS Word and it was a trial edition, it asked for a Prod Key, skipped that and it ran with "limited privileges."  After that the Windows Installer went away and D7 started right up.  And, once again, using D7 I had the computer running fast and cleaning the laptop vents dropped the temps from 160 to 128! :)

BTW, defraggler took about 7 hours on this machine.  Is Auslogics any quicker?

[Foolish Tech]

Sweet!  I don't know about Auslogics, I've *heard* it's faster but I've never tried it (no command line interface is entirely why...)

[PaulTECH]

Found this (just for that loads of free time I'm sure you have!)

http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/command-line/

[Foolish Tech]

wicked I didn't know about that.  Oh, ya know I was researching JKDefrag not this ... so now do they have a portable version perhaps?  I have installing things on customer's PCs unless it's security software...

[Simon]

Hi,

Check out PuranDefrag:

 http://www.puransoftware.com/Puran-Defrag.html

It's free and has GUI and Command Line versions. It will also defrag the NTFS metafiles ($MFT etc) from a boot time defrag which is a feature that not many free defrag tools have.

Kind Regards

Simon

[PaulTECH]

I ran a Virustotal scan it is has the Babylon toolbar!

[PaulTECH]

Auslogics free is bundled with the Ask toolbar.  I wonder if there is a work around since it uses; cdefrag.exe once the program is installed?