Really need help with Excel- PLEASE READ!!

[The Nightingale]

Hiya!

I'm doing an ICT course at my local college and have a test involving spreadsheets and pie charts next week. The only problem is whenever I try and open Excel to do some practice it starts something called Windows installer, it then says 'gathering information', seconds later I am told I need to insert the office 200 disc in order for it to work!

This never happened before, I never need any discs to access the stuff usually. It seems to have happened ever since Windows installer started coming up. Windows installer also comes up when I first log onto the PC, it was looked at by a local engineer and the message has appeared ever sice.

Is there any way of disabling Windows install, I don't want it to come up every time I log on, especially seen as it's not installing anything!

Any help appreciated- this exam is pretty important!

 

[~K-Pow~]

Give these links a try and see if they help

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;265194

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1083102823)

Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
Here (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=290301)

 

[~NeonFire372~]

That appears on mine too, and I just never spoke about it, Thanks K-Pow

 

[~K-Pow~]

No problem, you should let me know if it worked for you??

 

[The Nightingale]

No problem, you should let me know if it worked for you??

Thanks for the links- I've had a look.

I wanted to download Orktools.exe, I went to the website and found info on it, however there didn't seem to be a link to download. It may just be me being stupid but I couldn't see anything.

Could anyone do a direct link?

I couldn't find a link to download Windows installer cleanup either...

 

[~K-Pow~]

http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/9/d/e9d80355-7ab4-45b8-80e8-983a48d5e1bd/msicuu2.exe

Here you go, this is the direct link to the download