help me please

i have windows xp.

evertyime i use the search function to look for a file in the hard drive, the 'windows installer' window pops up. How do I stop this from happening.

Regards.

Please use a more descriptive title in the future lacj1.

Can you tell us what the windows installer says?

a "windows installer' windows pops up and says 'preparing to install'. Then the window changes to 'Microsoft 2000 office premium' and underneath it says:'please wait while windows configures microsoft office 2000 premium'. 'gathering required information'.
then it is prompting me to insert the office 2000 CD.

You must have office 2000 premium, so what the problem is, it is not fully installed , or has a damaged file that thinks it needs installed, the search assistant for office is probably triggering the problem, if possible, drop in the office cd, and do a complete install. should install all the files it wishes to have, the only time i have come accross this particular problem was when a hard drive with office installed on xp was swapped to another computer, it prompted to be reinstalled in the same as you described, kind of a anti piracy protection for ghosting systems. if this does not fix the problem, may want to run a virus scan to see if something is corrupting the system.