When that has happend to me I reload Office

Post #62,537 by boxley 11/12/02 6:52:42 PM Reply	When that has happend to me I reload Office uninstall cleanup all I can find and re-install it. It has only happened twice in 2 years so never did get to a root cause. thank you, Bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] "Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic." Correction: All that can be achieved with 51 percent of the voters!" Ilanna Mercer
Post #64,000 by jbrabeck 11/20/02 9:14:53 AM Reply	Tried it. Finally had some free time last night. Removed Office2000. Then reinstalled it. Was able to open my excel spreadsheet and enter last two weeks of data. Save it. Then opened an Access database. And it disappeared. Tried Word. Opened application, loaded document, then abended. Went back to excel. Loaded excel, opened spreadsheet, then it too died. Tried rebooting. Was able to open Access, load db and scroll through 3 (of 160) records before Access terminated. Same results with Word and Excel. So now what should I do? Blow away entire Win2000 and reinstall everything? Go back to Win98? Give up MS clients and stick with WordPerfect (Paradox) clients? This is getting ridiculous! [link\|mailto:jbrabeck@attbi.com\|Joe]
Post #64,006 by boxley 11/20/02 9:24:23 AM Reply	whoa, past my level of expertise has to be a document or a spreadsheet that gags a needed library. Once corrupted it doesnt work again. Since the excell worked and then you went to access, I would suspect the access engine, but what is has in common with the rest I dont know except for OBDC drivers and you dont get far enough to actually use them. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] "Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic." Correction: All that can be achieved with 51 percent of the voters!" Ilanna Mercer
Post #64,017 by andread 11/20/02 9:57:41 AM Reply	Did you try this? Install SP1 and 2 before you use Office at all Having it on many 2K machines here some would not run it properly before the SPs were applied the best time to apply is right after a new install A Play I Some Music w/ Papa Andy Saturday 8 PM - 11 PM ET All Night Rewind 11 PM - 5 PM Reggae, African and Caribbean Music [link\|http://wxxe.org\|Tune In]
Post #64,075 by folkert 11/20/02 1:07:09 PM 11/21/02 8:42:52 AM Reply	Bingo.... (Edited to be what I meant) Plus make sure W2K Sp3 is installed LAST. Office 2000 SR1 and SR2 have to be installed... like Nt4 sp1-4 were. Consecutively To address concern about being mislead (including my own concerns...) edit: Hopefully made it more coherent. `[link\|mailto:curley95@attbi.com\|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!] Your friendly Homeland Security Officer reminds: Hold Thumbprint to Screen for 5 seconds, we'll take the imprint, or Just continue to type on your keyboard, and we'll just sample your DNA.` Edited by gfolkertold Nov. 21, 2002, 08:42:52 AM EST Expand All History
Post #64,204 by jbrabeck 11/20/02 11:18:18 PM Reply	Got my work cut out... [link\|mailto:jbrabeck@attbi.com\|Joe]
Post #64,205 by jbrabeck 11/20/02 11:18:43 PM Reply	Got my work cut out... I did install the w2k patches. But not SP1 and SP2. Just SP3. I'm used to having the most recent SP contain all the previous patches... Oh well. Good thing I have cable modem access. Will wipe computer and restart... :( [link\|mailto:jbrabeck@attbi.com\|Joe]
Post #64,208 by folkert 11/20/02 11:23:37 PM 11/20/02 11:32:00 PM Reply	No... not for W2K.... For Office 2K. Service Release 1 and 2 need to be installed consecutively, unless you get a fully patched install media with O2K SR-2 compiled in. That is your major problem. If you update your OS to Service Pack three... do that LAST! Here is the order in which to install IFFN you gonna Wipe! W2K - Default install no patches O2K - Full "Run from HardDisk" install O2K - SR1 let it do it's thing O2K - SR2 let it do it's thing Windows Update get SP3 first Then either IE 5.5sp2 or IE 6 sp1 Then all the other "criticals" DO update to DirectX8.0a as Office uses DirectX now Don't get Windows Media Player 9... it is FSCK'd with DRM in it now and it seems to have broken Roxio Cd Creator Platinum... GRRR! Then what ever you want "reccomended" and drivers... Lotsa work indeed though. You could cut out the Wipe and reload, just make sure you re-apply W2K-SP3. Have fun! `[link\|mailto:curley95@attbi.com\|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!] Your friendly Homeland Security Officer reminds: Hold Thumbprint to Screen for 5 seconds, we'll take the imprint, or Just continue to type on your keyboard, and we'll just sample your DNA.` Edited by gfolkertold Nov. 20, 2002, 11:32:00 PM EST Expand All History
Post #64,222 by pwhysall 11/21/02 2:48:23 AM Reply	Er, no. W2K service packs don't work in the way NT4 ones did. If you apply a W2K service pack, then when you add bits to Windows, the service pack files are used instead of the original ones from the W2K install CD. If you're feeling really lazy, you can slipstream the service pack into your W2K installation directory. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]

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