One darn thing after another... Incoming! Roxio download refuses to cancel

[ahhaa]

Some time back, I got a Lightscribe burner that came with Roxio Creator 8.2XE to handle the label burning. Its worked quite flawlessly, and then I got real stupid.

I noticed that the center window in Roxio Creator offered an update to 905u; so I clicked on it; it opened a download window, and I then saw that it'd be about 560-some megabytes.

I'm on rural dialup, and at 56K that would take about 28 hours, so I just clicked cancel... my 2nd mistake.

Now, everytime I start the computer (XPsp3), a Windows installer window opens and starts to configure the Creator update to install 8.2XE (which is the version already installed), and when I cancel it, the installer keeps returning- like 5 or 6 times, sometimes hiding behind other windows. Sometimes its called Windows Installer, sometimes Roxio 8.2 XE; usually it says Please wait while Windows configures Roxio 8.2 XE.

The original download window was not open long enough to acquire even 1 megabyte. Frequently the recurring Cancel window freezes and is unresponsive to Task Manager. I found something in Windows Prefetch, that is date stamped about right, its called ROXIO CENTRAL.EXE C:\WINDOWS\prefetch.
Roxio's site won't even give me a ticket...

How can I remove the installer instruction from the Startup, or where ever it is?

Why did I do that? I didn't even really want an update...

[stiltman]

Most likely you'll have to do some registry hacking.
Look under HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\run
then under runonce
See if it's loading there.

Might be a lot easier just to completely uninstall it and then reinstall from the original media

[Soopafresh]

This little app will make it even easier

http://www.mlin.net/files/StartupCPL_EXE.zip

[jagabo]

Start -> Run -> type in MSCONFIG -> press OK. Go to Startup tab, see if you can disable the program in question. It might also appear in the Startup group: Start -> All Programs -> Startup. If so, you can just delete it.