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Bruno · 03-19-2006, 01:43 PM

I work in internal tech support, and for some reason we see this constantly with Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.3 and Windows Messenger 5.1 - try to open a PDF and the Windows Messenger installer tries to run.

Usually this is solved by removing Windows Messenger (ie the program that Windows tries to install) and all it's .MSI files (windows installer files), reboot, and then reinstalling it from fresh installers.

In your case, I'd suggest removing TurboCAD, not GCA. It's not an issue with GCA, so much as windows has gone temporarily insane.

And the windows installer DOES have an autoinstall thingamy, which is probably at fault in these situations, but I haven't got a clue what the deal "under the hood" here. I just have symptoms to work with.

03-19-2006, 01:43 PM	#3
Bruno Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canada	Re: Weird Bug! I work in internal tech support, and for some reason we see this constantly with Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.3 and Windows Messenger 5.1 - try to open a PDF and the Windows Messenger installer tries to run. Usually this is solved by removing Windows Messenger (ie the program that Windows tries to install) and all it's .MSI files (windows installer files), reboot, and then reinstalling it from fresh installers. In your case, I'd suggest removing TurboCAD, not GCA. It's not an issue with GCA, so much as windows has gone temporarily insane. And the windows installer DOES have an autoinstall thingamy, which is probably at fault in these situations, but I haven't got a clue what the deal "under the hood" here. I just have symptoms to work with. __________________ All about Size Modifier; Unified Hit Location Table A Wiki for my F2F Group A neglected GURPS blog