why does windows installer start up everytime i start up visual basic 6

Question

it starts up windows installer with random applications on my machine . . after i click cancel a few times, it loads vb6 fine.

any ideas why this is happening?

Answer 1

This is what a Windows Installer repair looks like. It means that something is broken in one of the installed products on your system. Ideally it's a one-off repair so you might be better off letting it runs its course and do the repair, except of course if it asks for a install CD that you don't have.

The Windows event log (Application) will have MsiInstaller entries saying what product and component has the problem.