No Action Windows Installer

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Whenver I log on, I get many Windows Installer popup windows with no program
name cited. I click cancel and another buch comes up . I have opened task
manager to cancel the tasks. They just keep coming. I haven't counted them,
but I would estimate at better that 50. Eventually they stop. I tried
logging on as a differenct user, including Administrator. The annoying
behavior exists every time, with no indication of what it is trying to
install. If I could figure that out, I might be able to figure out what is
going on and be more informative for you
 
Event Viewer may reveal something. Spyware and or virus come to mind.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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| Whenver I log on, I get many Windows Installer popup windows with no
program
| name cited. I click cancel and another buch comes up . I have opened
task
| manager to cancel the tasks. They just keep coming. I haven't counted
them,
| but I would estimate at better that 50. Eventually they stop. I tried
| logging on as a differenct user, including Administrator. The annoying
| behavior exists every time, with no indication of what it is trying to
| install. If I could figure that out, I might be able to figure out what
is
| going on and be more informative for you
 
Is Event Viewer "system-wide"? I obviously cannot get to event viewer from
the corrupted user. From the new user I ran eventvwr.msc at the cmd level.
There was nothing in there about aborted or" tried" MSI. How can I see the
Event Log for the corrupted user?
 
The event logs are system-level logs. When you view the logged events in
Event Viewer (double-click them in the right-hand pane) in the upper right
corner, third button down is a copy to clipboard, then you can paste in the
body of a reply message.

Please do so for each of the different System Log events (that are a Type:
'Error' or 'Warning') since last boot so we can see all of the event detail.

Also check Device Manager for error codes and or non-starting devices.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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| Is Event Viewer "system-wide"? I obviously cannot get to event viewer
from
| the corrupted user. From the new user I ran eventvwr.msc at the cmd level.
| There was nothing in there about aborted or" tried" MSI. How can I see
the
| Event Log for the corrupted user?
 
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