"Lil' Abner" <blvstk@dogpatch.com> wrote in message
news:Xns987CB408E84C3butter@wefb973cbe498...
> I don't know if this was a coincidence or not, but I had two different
> people bring computers in today with the same problem. When Windows boots
> up, the "preparing to install" window pops up with "Photo Gallery" in its
> title bar. The progress bar goes across about a time and a half and then
> you're prompted for a CD. You have to click Cancel numerous times to get
> out of it or it will start right over.
>
> Neither customer had a clue what it was and hadn't been trying to install
> anything. One of them had Kodak Easy Share installed and I thought maybe
> it was something to do with that. But the other one had just done a
> system restore and didn't have hardly *any* software installed. That's
> the one I'm working on right now. I've turned everything off in msconfig
> and that has stopped it from trying to install at boot.
>
> Currently I'm installing antivirus and anti-spyware, but I'm not really
> expecting to find anything since it's a clean install.
>
> Does "Photo Gallery" ring a bell with anyone?
>
> --
> --- A dyslexic man walks into a bra ---


It does ring a bell with me but it happened about 3 months ago, The fix that
worked for me was to uninstall the software, as the customer had no clue and
had never used it. And I quote "it has done that for almost the whole time
I've owned the computer".

I think it was an HP bundle software thing

Mich...