My operating system is windows XP-sp3. For a month now I have been on the net trying to find out why windows installer keeps popping up saying "preparing to install" when I'm not installing any thing. This happens every time I open up IE8 or an application or a program that uses MSI. This does not happen when I open up a 3rd party program that does not us MSI or if I go to mazilla fire fox. When I open up IE8 the MSI dialog box pops up and I have to wait for it to dissapear befor the rest of the window opens up. This became so annoying that I wound up disabling windows installer in system services. But I have to enable it again if I want to use MS word, which takes me for ever to do a draft. I have tryed everything to resolve this problem from virus scans to cleaning out my registry, to uninstalling unused programes, but nothing helps. I do how ever have my PC running tip top performance. I could really use some help. I'm pretty much a beginner at trouble shooting computer softwear, so any help you can give me in simple and step by step instructions would be appreciated. Thank you for your time. I see manage attachments below but don't to be doing the right thing. Have several MSI.logs.
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