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I recently installed Blackberry Desktop Manager 5.0, and then as part of that, installed Roxio Media Manager.  Ever since, I would get sporadic pop-ups looking for DAO.msi to install.  I tried to find a way to get rid of this annoying problem, and most solutions I found told me to unregister and then re-register the .dll as follows:

Unregister:

1. On the taskbar, click Start > Run.
2. In the Run dialog box, type the following:
   regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DAO\dao360.dll
3. Click OK.

Register:

1. On the taskbar, click Start > Run.
2. In the Run dialog box, type the following:
   regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DAO\dao360.dll"
3. Click OK.

I tried this, but it didn't work.

I also read about solutions to reinstall Microsoft Office, but I never had Office installed.

I think the problem I had, came from having an ATI video card a while back, and then I switched to an NVidia card and in the process I uninstalled my ATI software.

The solution I finally found to work, was to go to the ATI/AMD site and download and install the DAO/MDAC which is part of ATI Multimedia Center.

The link to download is here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/mmc9-14.aspx

This link may change, so the way I found it was to go to ATI/AMD driver site.  I then searched for drivers for Windows XP Professional/Home, All-in-Wonder, All-in-Wonder Radeon Series.  I then went to ATI Multimedia Software, which includes 4 components.  I downloaded component 1: DAO/MDAC (9-14_mmc_uci.exe).  After installing this, my problem went away.

Hopefully this can help someone else who is facing this annoying problem.

My System: Windows XP Pro SP3