Have you got any virus programs installed?
If you have, end the program and then try and install Publisher 2002.
Do you get any error messages? If you do, what are they?
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Hi kevin (anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com),
in the Microsoft? newsgroups
you posted:
|| Every time I open Publisher 2002 it goes throught
|| the 'first time' preparing to install and configuring
|| setups, this gets very waring!! I have tried uninstalling
|| and re-installing to no avail. I am operating in an
|| windows XP Professional environment.
During your install, have you chosen to "run all from my computer"?

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