Recently somthing happened, say I go to run a project by hitting F5, microsfot windows installer will pop up and say installing, I'll cancel out of it twice, then my app runs, whenever I add like RTB, Textboxes, or some simple line of code it does it, anyone have any ideas on what the hell happened?

No, but maybe you should let it install and you won't have that problem. Also, maybe VB didn't install fully/correctly?

Alright, Lemme explain this clearer, its Microsoft Ofice 2000, and it just recently started doing this, I've had no troubles like this since last week, I posted a screenshot of it in action

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i have this with my office applications as well, my guess would be that something overrode the buffer while it was installing the first time, or incorrect registry values were created. best way to fix this is to just reinstall.

You both blindly installed without reading the options.  Office 2000 marks many options to be 'Installed on first use'.  Remove and reinstall Office 2000, this time changing everything to "Do Not Install" or "Install to hard disk".  Some things Office will not let you "not install" so go ahead and install to hard disk.

Office 2002 plz :P

[quote]Office 2002 plz :P[/quote]
Why?

Why not? OOOOOOO.

Because Office 2000 can do everything I want it to do and more that I don't. It seems that Office 2002 doesn't change the "stuff I want it to do" list and enlarges the "stuff that I don't want it to do" list.

Also, I haven't tested this, but knowing Microsoft it is logical to assume Office 2002 will take more RAM and will be slower.

Oh, and my copy of Office 2000 is actually legal. :)

I have the exact same problem. It's EVIL EVIL MSI causing the problem. Head over to microsoft.com, get the MSI sdk. Search thru the registry for the program causing those popups. Find the program ID, goto the tools subfolder in the sdk, and msizap T [progid]