Windows installer pops up ever time i try accessing my app. over T

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Hi All,

windows 2000 terminal server, service Pack4
Has Sql server 2000 and Office 2000 installed on it.

Users log into the server with their windows account and in the user;s
peroperties profiles tab for these users, i have specifed that the OS takes
them straight to my application (which is done in VB6), i.e they do not even
get the desktop.

All these users are part of the local Users group.

Now this setup works perfect except that when the users log into the
Operating System over TS, they get this Microsoft Office 2000 installer popup
with the progress bar gong from left to right and then pops up and error and
the progress bar goes left to right, dont remember the errror word to word
but it tries installing offfice from the CD and fails since there is no CD in
the CD drive. This nonsense keeps happening until i click on Cancel several
times.

Funny part is that it does not happen when i am logged in as an
Administrator with access to the desktop, which makes me think if this that
there are two reason for this issue, 1 . permissions, 2. access to only the
application. the application does not have any thing to do with outlook. Out
of all the machines that i have installed with this envriorment it is only
this machine which pops up the office 2000 windows installer ever time i log
into my applciation over Terminal Services.

Can anybody shed some light on this issue for me! thanks
Is this some kind of registry setting or some option that i can disable.

thanks
muzammil
 
See if this article helps, under General:
http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msifaq/q/runtime.htm

Hopefully you installed Office for all users with a per-machine install and
not a per-user install, I believe that can lead to the behavior you're
seeing. However the behavior you're seeing is sometimes the way it is
supposed to work. When a new user first uses Office it tries to install the
per-user settings, specific to that user. I don't think this should be
asking for the CD though.
 
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