Windows Installer at startup

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From: Bob W (george83_at_home.com)
Date: 12/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:31:18 -0600

Whenever my computer (XP with SP-2) starts up, "Windows Installer" appears
and has to be cancelled 3 times to get rid of it. This has occurred for the
past week -- since I reformated drive C, so I have a relatively clean C
drive with not many programs.

Before I reformatted, I received the same error every time I started MS Word
or Excel (2003). I did not receive the error at startup before
reformatting. Following the advice I saw somewhere I unchecked Norton
AntiVirus Office checking and that solved the problem.

Would appreciate anyone's ideas and advice. Thank you.

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