Windows Installer Service Auto Starts even though its set to "Manual"

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Hello,So I was looking at my task manager as I always do when I start my PC and today I saw something unusual. Now, it may have always been there and that I didn't notice it earlier but Windows Installer Service is running in the background not as a system process but as a normal background app would. The first thing I did is check whether its set to automatic or not and by default it's set to manual. Something that I noticed afterwards is that it is inside a parent group called "Windows® Installer" which only includes its service in it. The service keeps on being active until I actually insta

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