If Office 2000 is already installed, I'd get rid of the Installer. It's on the Office 2000 CD, anyway, so you won't lose out on installation updates and repeats.

If Office 2000 is no longer on your machine, the Installer isn't needed, anyway, so get rid of it. [ You might have to manually delete any O2K Installer entries, in your Registry, here. ]

Either way, if you wish the O2K Installer to remain, maybe renaming it might help. I've made this work with similar problems, way back in the old Win 95 days.

If that renaming leads to a hang, crash or error message as you start Gnotella, I'd seriously suggest full UNinstallation of both [ MORE NEED TO CHECK REMOVAL FROM YOUR REGISTRY! ] and put GNOTELLA back on first, this time around.

Good luck, whatever you choose to do.

TheGodSplinter

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