Goofy. Whenever I start Gnotella, the Office 2000 installer also runs. Any ideas?

I've never heard of that problem before. I'd try reinstalling Gnotella.

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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Update Internet Explorer, the Office 2000 CD contains a newer version than you have, and you most likely answered "no" to it asking you to upgrade during office install. A certain .DLL (can't remember which one, browser related) will initiate office install (or whatever else prompted the dialogue to upgrade IE) everytime it's used if it thinks it needs a newer IE.

Something in Gnotella must call that .dll. This has been confirmed a "feature" of this .dll, not a bug according to Micro$oft.

in any case, Gnotella isn't to blame, they're just calling a rude Windows library you happen to have under conditions you also happen to have.

Once you have installed the new IE5.5sp2/or 6preview, it'd be a good idea to also install Office2k sp2 patch, as this fixes that bug*cough*feature, so that future software won't do the same thing.