Not "help with a bug" but "a bug with the help feature"

New user here

Whenever I hit F1 for help or choose a topic and hit enter within help, I get a few weird messages before help is displayed:

1) A popup windows installer window saying "preparing to install"

2) A popup window that says Please wait while Windows configures Dell Resource CD. I usually cancel that, but whether I do or let it run,

3)  next is a message that the Dell Resource CD is not available or that there is no valid source code for the Dell Resource CD. One time it said it was looking for RCD-MSI..

Once I close that, I can read the help just fine, until I click on another hyperlink, then it starts all over.

Anyone seen similar behavior and have a fix?

This is on an older WinXP machine. I plan to move DS to a new Win7 machine, adn hopefully this will go away.