Can't Backup Q2005 after installaing Windows Installer 3.1

I think one of the "fixes" for this problem is to quit out of Quicken, leaving the Installer window and then to re-insert the Quicken Install CD.

There might have been a few other ways to fix this, I seem to recall. You might do well to Google this group as well as the Quicken Forum site. Limiting your search to that site may be useful. Use "site:Intuit.forums.liveworld.com" as part of your Google argument.

Thanks for the tips. I'll do the search as you suggested. When I run msconfig and do a selective startup, the backup works without invoking Windows Installer so I'm assuming some other process is also involved with this problem.

After reading the messages in that forum, I decided to uninstall and reinstall Q2005 and that worked. The windows installer no longer pops when I do a backup.

I suspect the problem may be related to the fact that Intuit uses Demoshield 7 as their installer instead of Windows Installer and there may be a conflict between the two.