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Trouble linking email account with Outlook 2003
Brian: I finally solved the problem, and I think I figured out why it was
happening. When loading Office 2003, I left my Webroot Spy Sweeper enabled, and there came a point when Office was loading registry keys that Spy Sweeper asked if I wanted to "prevent" the particular key from loading. I'm more familiar with this type of prompt usually asking whether to "allow" a function to proceed, not "prevent" it from happening, so I think previously I was not reading it correctly and responded "Yes." This time I responded "No" so that it would not prevent the key from loading, and "Voila!" I can now access the Email Accounts setup page correctly. I wonder if this is the same or similar cause of the many "Preparing to install" problems I see posted to Office Online chats... Thanks again, and HNY! Jeff "pennstatejeff" wrote: "Brian Tillman" wrote: pennstatejeff wrote: Sorry it took so long to reply. I'm really struggling (as a non-techie) to understand what I'm dealing with here. One thing I didn't get into early on was that I now have 2 operating systems on my machine (Dell 4550, 2.53 GHz, 60 Gb, 256 Mb RAM). It's a 5 year old machine that had slowed significantly, so a friend offered to check it and ended up cleaning off the HD and, instead of reinstalling my XP Home, offered to install XP Pro (for which I do not have a license). When I realized that the installed copy of XP Pro was not supported by MS, I decided to reinstall XP Home myself from the Dell reinstallation disk. Not wanting to be left in limbo if the install didn't go smoothly, I created a new folder (C:\windowXP) in which to install XP Home and left XP Pro in the C:\windows folder. When I boot up there is an initial DOS window asking me which OS I want to boot with (Home or Pro). You have issues not addressable in an Outlook newsgroup. -- Brian Tillman Well, not necessarily. I finally reformatted my hard drive and re-installed my OEM copy of Windows XP. The machine is running very smoothly, but when I re-installed Office 2003 I'm having the same issues. When I first boot up, and then to to open one of the Office applications (Word, Excel, etc.) I get a little window that pops up as the appl opens that says "Windows Installer: Preparing to install." Now this doesn't seem appropriate since I already installed it. Also, when I start up Excel, I keep getting the popup message "Installing Components for MS Excel - Installing: MS Excel feature." Again, I don't believe this should happen each time I open the appl. Finally, when I try to access the "Tools/Email Accounts" pull down tab in Outlook I keep getting the Windows Critical Stop sound along with the message "The operation failed due to a registry or installation problem. Restart Outlook and try again. If the problem persists, please reinstall." One bit of information I don't think I shared is that my copy of Office 2003 (Student/Teacher Edition) allows the software to be installed on up to 3 separate computers. While I have only installed it on 2 (my PC and my laptop), I have had to reinstall it on the PC a few times now due to the OS problems I have had. I don't know whether this could be contributing to the problem or not, but figured I'd share it. All I want to do is configure Outlook so I can synch my Verizon email with it, but I'm losing hope that I'll ever be able to do so. Thanks again for your assistance. Jeff |
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Trouble linking email account with Outlook 2003
pennstatejeff wrote:
Brian: I finally solved the problem, and I think I figured out why it was happening. When loading Office 2003, I left my Webroot Spy Sweeper enabled, Microsoft always recommends disabling AV and spyware detectors when installing. Now you know why. I'm glad you discovered the solution. -- Brian Tillman |
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