Dialog After Application Install

After every install of an application on my mac a dialog window appears titled "New Text File" with "Where:" dropdown set to Desktop and the "Save As:" prefilled as "myapps.txt. Then there is a continue button and cancel button.
It has only started happening lately.
What is this dialog box?

Perhaps you (or some utility program) created a folder action for the Applications folder. That action is configured to generate/open a text file - based on the title, for keeping track of what applications were installed when?

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After I install a new application I have the icon of a disk with their name under it left on my desktop. It appears as a drive or partition would. Do I want to save these in case I need to re-install at some point? Can I burn them onto a CD or DVD?
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I've had similar problems. Whenever I try and update apps on the iPhone, the app would apparently download ok, but then not install. This didn't happen with new apps - only ones I was updating.
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Some people get away without Repairing Permissions for years, some for only days.
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If many Permission are repaired, or any Directory errors are found, you may need to re-apply some the latest/biggest updates again, or even do an A&I if you have enough free disk space.
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The combo update for Intel-based Macs...
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