Hey Mike,
After a long struggle trying to narrow down my problem, I’ve figured out that it was you all along! hehe, okay so here’s what I’ve come across. It may be a little long-winded, but hopefully you’ll enjoy the thoroughness.
I was using weather watcher 5.6.45, and that was working smoothly. However, I recently updated to 5.6.48, and this has caused an issue. In the windows event log, I see the following entries:
[code]Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Description:
Detection of product ‘{EF7E931D-DC84-471B-8DB6-A83358095474}’, feature ‘Core_Common’ failed during request for component ‘{0CDA3A4B-E3DC-4BDF-AA7E-00A8BF476602}’
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An exhasutive search shows that this relates to the electronic arts download manager (EADM), which installed with some of my games months/years ago, but i do not use it and do not have it running. This seemed odd to me. I would also notice this very similar entry that would happen along with the first one. Note that sometimes, the “logs” directory sometimes would be the “html” directory.
[code]Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1004
Description:
Detection of product ‘{EF7E931D-DC84-471B-8DB6-A83358095474}’, feature ‘Core_Common’, component ‘{2B3122EC-DCC5-494E-9788-352A5E62E9BF}’ failed. The resource 'C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EADM\logs' does not exist.
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So, I first thought this was some EA issue, even though I’ve made no recent changes, such as installing, uninstalling, updating, or playing those games or files. I tried uninstalling the EADM automatically and then manually removing all traces on the HD and in the registry. After that, i STILL had the first entry coming up (though not the second one). I could not understand why it could still be an issue every 30 minutes in my logs when it was totally removed.
Well, I believe it occurs whenever weather watcher tries to look for an update. seemingly this occurs during both the program update check AND the weather update check, unless the two happen to be linked or i’m mistaken (do both use the new dl.exe?). Whenever the update check occurs, I get a window that quickly flashes and goes away. I believe that it says “waiting to install…” but it happens so fast that i am not 100% sure. This quick popup takes focus and will disrupt me if I’m in a full-screen game, for example. In the windows event log, I can see that there is a problem every 30 minutes, correlating to the update interval I have set (this is how I figured out that it was weather watcher). It will also write to the log if i manually check for updates. Closing weather watcher 5.6.48 or reinstalling version 5.6.45 both fix the problem, therefore I believe it is safe to say that I have found my culprit!
Please let me know if you can narrow down this issue. Meanwhile, I will stick with the older version. Thanks!