when launching certain programs others try to install
 

When I launch certain applications, just now it was Duplicate Cleaner, I get an install wizard pop-up telling me that quickbooks is trying to install or Microsoft Office is trying to install. I just keep hitting cancel until the desired application launches. WTF is up with that?

Which virus checker do you use and what does it say?

I use kaspersky and it says everything is peachy.

Automatic updates, you're refusing, that keep accumulating?

hmm. I just started an object scan and it seems things are far from peachy. I'm not sure how that all happened, but it seems like my hard drive is actually a crack house.
:(

That's bad, but it may attract some crack ho's. :o

Ho's need to wash their clothes:

re OP:

Growl does this.

The guy in the vid looks like a pimp.

You figure that out on your own? :D

Your Microsoft Installer is screwed up
 

A system component, Microsoft Installer, is screwed up.

What version of Windows do you have?

Hi mbpark,
I'm running XP. Can I re-install MS Installer? (that seems ironic) How does it get screwed up?

yes you can`
 

Sure,

Download it from here: http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...288-v3-x86.exe

Microsoft Installer relies on an internal database, and a lot of files stored in C:\windows\installer. Sometimes the DB gets corrupt in older versions of the product.

You perhaps by chance didn't delete any of those files, did you? :)

I can tie my shoes, too.:p:

Anything is possible. Sometimes I get deletion happy, followed by deletion sad.