Installer pops up on boot

[Saxoholic]

I'm running XP, and for some reason recently the windows installer pops up during boot. It reads "preparing to install", is up for about 2 seconds, and then disappears. I've been looking around msconfig to try and figure out why this is happening but to know avail.

XP, core 2 duo E6600, 2 gigs of ram, geforce 8800gts

EDIT: Also, it pops up briefly sometimes when I insert a cd/dvd into my optical drive

 

[Saxoholic]

bump

 

[htne]

Originally posted by: Saxoholic
I'm running XP, and for some reason recently the windows installer pops up during boot. It reads "preparing to install", is up for about 2 seconds, and then disappears. I've been looking around msconfig to try and figure out why this is happening but to know avail.

XP, core 2 duo E6600, 2 gigs of ram, geforce 8800gts

EDIT: Also, it pops up briefly sometimes when I insert a cd/dvd into my optical drive

Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility

 

[Saxoholic]

Thanks for the link to the tool. Is there any way other than trial and error to figure out what the offending program is?

 

[MiniDoom]

do you have any msiexec entries in the app log?

 

[amddude]

how about checking msconfig for startup entries, just for fun

 

[Saxoholic]

Originally posted by: rdubbz420
do you have any msiexec entries in the app log?

Where can I find the app log?

I have checked msconfig multiple times, no strange entries. Anything remotely questionable is disabled.