olaf Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 For a few days I observe a strange effect in my win2000prof, SP4 installation. If I use the right-click or contextmenu in windows explorer the first time after system start - to have a file open with an application ("open with") - a small grey windos installer window pop-up and stops only after a few hits on "cancel". After this the right-click-menu works ok (during the whole PC-session) and I can open any kind of files via "open with". What might be the cause for that behaviour ? A few moth ago I found dial-a-fix and it helped me to fix an windows installer problem (at that time .msi file did not start). So I switched again to this tool and selected the installer repair part but without succes. The described problem remains. I had a CCleaner-run to control the registry. The result: - no missing dll's or ocx - a list of activeX/COM problems from applications I deleted quite a while ago (no idea how to get rid of this stuuf) - a few other entries Does anybody have an idea how to fix the described problem ? Any hint is welcomed (beside the one "re-install the whole system - of course). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted January 28, 2007 Administrator Share Posted January 28, 2007 Welcome to the forums olaf! Have you tried to let the Windows Installer run it's course? I'll put this into our Windows 2000 forum so others see what the issue is aimed towards. [ Moved ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capman Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Have you tried to let the Windows Installer run it's course? I think this would be a good option to try first, reason is, I had a very similar problem that I cured by doing that yesterday. For the last week or so when I opened SpywareBlaster, a Windows Installer box would appear, I would click Cancel and SpywareBlaster would open up as normal, yesterday though, I decided to let the installer run just to see what happened, now SpywareBlaster opens up as normal without the Windows Installer box appearing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olaf Posted January 29, 2007 Author Share Posted January 29, 2007 Have you tried to let the Windows Installer run it's course? I think this would be a good option to try first, reason is, I had a very similar problem that I cured by doing that yesterday. For the last week or so when I opened SpywareBlaster, a Windows Installer box would appear, I would click Cancel and SpywareBlaster would open up as normal, yesterday though, I decided to let the installer run just to see what happened, now SpywareBlaster opens up as normal without the Windows Installer box appearing. thanks for your reply. The problem is fixed now. The windows installer tried to configure one of the pdf-printers. I found that quite suprising, but after de-installation of that printer the problem is gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted January 29, 2007 Administrator Share Posted January 29, 2007 Glad to hear that you got it resolved. :happybday: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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