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'Please wait while Windows Configures Microsoft Publisher 2002' + VB6 Controls

I'm not sure this is quite the right category, but i guess it has *something* to do with office so neway..

Whenever i open a program that uses VB6 Controls, ie, the listview, it comes up with a window saying Windows Installer... 'Please wait while windows configures Microsoft Publisher 2002'. i can either cancel this dialog 3 times before it disapears and loads the normal program, or i can let it go do whatever its doing and then it'll load the program. Cancelling this is annoying, as i have to do this everytime i try to open a prog with it. Letting it go, will only fix it until i next reboot/shut down. cos when i get back on, it returns. This was happening annoylingly for a long time but it had a brief period where it went away just recently, and i thought it had finally gone (i didnt do anything in particular to fix it tho, musta been part of other stuff i did). but its back again, i think it returned when i open visual studio 6 again (vb6)... i wanna know how to fix it, or stop it or w/e. As i said above, i narrowed it down to something to do with VB6 Controls, but it doesn't apply to all VB6 Controls either. I currently have Microsoft Publisher Xp/2002 Installed.
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*bump* any1?
I just had something similar happen to a client of mine:

When the user opens up a particular form (and only this particular form) he gets this:

"Please wait while Windows configures appxxx"
"the feature I am trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable"

The application is not the application that he is currently using (the one I wrote), nor is it a Microsoft application.  The form this happens on is special only in that it contains a Rich Text Box, where none of the other forms have one.

Do you use Rich Text Boxes in your app?
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Nup, doesn't use Rich Text Boxes, on the form the only controls are a few listviews, frames, tabstrips, command buttons and textboxes. not rich ones tho.
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umm, where is that area... im trying to delete it but i can't  find the area you speak of.
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thanks