Hi, Windows 10 home, 22H2, 19045.4291

Honestly this windows installer popped up out of nowhere. I don't believe I was pressing any buttons on the keyboard at the time. Why would this pop up and do I need it included are three screenshots scrolling from top middle and bottom screenshot of each. Thank you for all help and advice...

It's the front-end GUI to msiexec.exe, the built-in application installer engine.

If you didn't invoke it yourself then use something like the small, free, portable Autoruns to see where/when it's triggered.

Hope this helps...

RickC said:

If you are curious, you should be able to list what was successfully installed by the application installer engine.

You can either open Event Viewer (as administrator) and search Event Viewer > Windows Logs > Application for entries where the Event ID is 11707.

Even easier, use Nir Sofer's FullEventLogView, wait until the list is populated then use the Event ID column to view events with an ID of 11707... or use Advanced Options (F9) to filter specifically for 11709 events:


IMO, probably the easiest method is to do this:

1. Right-click on the Start button and choose Windows PowerShell (or Windows PowerShell (Admin)).
2. When the console appears, copy/paste/enter the following PowerShell command:

Code:

Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable @{LogName='Application';ID='11707'} -MaxEvents 10 | Format-List

You'll see a list of the last 10 Windows events that have an Event ID of 11707 like this:


Hope this helps...

Thank you RickC for that info, in a day or two i'll post back the findings here.. thanks man!!