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Can't reinstall Office 2007 in Vista
Office 2007 is not working properly, but when I try to reinstall it, I get
some error codes. The computer had Trojan, but that was removed, and now the anti Virus sweep is clean, and chkdsk reads OK too, but when i try to launch word, it doesn't open except for the flash screen, and excel will seem to open, but when you try to launch a file, it goes into a requesting virus scan and freezes. |
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Can't reinstall Office 2007 in Vista
reinhold
You are still infected. Best thing to do in my opinion is to save the Data and all that needs saving and reformat and do a clean install of your windows and then Office -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "reinhold" wrote in message ... Office 2007 is not working properly, but when I try to reinstall it, I get some error codes. The computer had Trojan, but that was removed, and now the anti Virus sweep is clean, and chkdsk reads OK too, but when i try to launch word, it doesn't open except for the flash screen, and excel will seem to open, but when you try to launch a file, it goes into a requesting virus scan and freezes. |
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Can't reinstall Office 2007 in Vista
I want to elaborate on the successful conclusion of this problem. I had an
unused version of Symantec in the computer, and even though it was not in use, it asked to perform a virus scan but was unable to do it. I did a removal of the program through Vista Program removal, and then also did a registry clean to remove any further reference to it. After doing that, All of the Office products work fine. The original problem was most pronounced in Word and Excel. Originally these programs had been working OK, but for some reason the Symantec Program started performing this virus scan request. I use AVG 8.5 as the anti virus and it seems to work fine. The computer has been in operation for more than a month since the repair and continues to work Fine!!!!! "reinhold" wrote: Office 2007 is not working properly, but when I try to reinstall it, I get some error codes. The computer had Trojan, but that was removed, and now the anti Virus sweep is clean, and chkdsk reads OK too, but when i try to launch word, it doesn't open except for the flash screen, and excel will seem to open, but when you try to launch a file, it goes into a requesting virus scan and freezes. |
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Can't reinstall Office 2007 in Vista
"reinhold" wrote in message ... I want to elaborate on the successful conclusion of this problem. I had an unused version of Symantec in the computer, and even though it was not in use, it asked to perform a virus scan but was unable to do it. I did a removal of the program through Vista Program removal, and then also did a registry clean to remove any further reference to it. After doing that, All of the Office products work fine. The original problem was most pronounced in Word and Excel. Originally these programs had been working OK, but for some reason the Symantec Program started performing this virus scan request. I use AVG 8.5 as the anti virus and it seems to work fine. The computer has been in operation for more than a month since the repair and continues to work Fine!!!!! .... proving once again my unfounded assertion that Norton is itself basically just a virus. (In the interest of full disclosure) I recently bought Norton Ghost, but did not install any of the other options that are included on the CD. I hate Norton and McAfee because they are all but impossible to remove without digging into the Registry to edit keys. |
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Can't reinstall Office 2007 in Vista
"Jeff Strickland" wrote: "reinhold" wrote in message ... I want to elaborate on the successful conclusion of this problem. I had an unused version of Symantec in the computer, and even though it was not in use, it asked to perform a virus scan but was unable to do it. I did a removal of the program through Vista Program removal, and then also did a registry clean to remove any further reference to it. After doing that, All of the Office products work fine. The original problem was most pronounced in Word and Excel. Originally these programs had been working OK, but for some reason the Symantec Program started performing this virus scan request. I use AVG 8.5 as the anti virus and it seems to work fine. The computer has been in operation for more than a month since the repair and continues to work Fine!!!!! .... proving once again my unfounded assertion that Norton is itself basically just a virus. (In the interest of full disclosure) I recently bought Norton Ghost, but did not install any of the other options that are included on the CD. I hate Norton and McAfee because they are all but impossible to remove without digging into the Registry to edit keys. I stay away from all Norton Products now. I am using Comodo for the Firewall and AVG 8.5 for the Anti Virus, and both of these products seem to be keeping me safe. I think that the Norton got on my laptop because HP installed it, and then it was free for a limited period of time. I installed AVG on it after that, it was working OK. I know that computer vendors have to install some sort of anti virus on new computers, so seems that is usually Norton for a limited free trial. Most users probably stick with Norton and pay the price since it can be difficult to remove it and install a free anti virus program. |
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Can't reinstall Office 2007 in Vista
"reinhold" wrote in message ... "Jeff Strickland" wrote: "reinhold" wrote in message ... I want to elaborate on the successful conclusion of this problem. I had an unused version of Symantec in the computer, and even though it was not in use, it asked to perform a virus scan but was unable to do it. I did a removal of the program through Vista Program removal, and then also did a registry clean to remove any further reference to it. After doing that, All of the Office products work fine. The original problem was most pronounced in Word and Excel. Originally these programs had been working OK, but for some reason the Symantec Program started performing this virus scan request. I use AVG 8.5 as the anti virus and it seems to work fine. The computer has been in operation for more than a month since the repair and continues to work Fine!!!!! .... proving once again my unfounded assertion that Norton is itself basically just a virus. (In the interest of full disclosure) I recently bought Norton Ghost, but did not install any of the other options that are included on the CD. I hate Norton and McAfee because they are all but impossible to remove without digging into the Registry to edit keys. I stay away from all Norton Products now. I am using Comodo for the Firewall and AVG 8.5 for the Anti Virus, and both of these products seem to be keeping me safe. I think that the Norton got on my laptop because HP installed it, and then it was free for a limited period of time. I installed AVG on it after that, it was working OK. I know that computer vendors have to install some sort of anti virus on new computers, so seems that is usually Norton for a limited free trial. Most users probably stick with Norton and pay the price since it can be difficult to remove it and install a free anti virus program. ======= They don't HAVE to, they just do because they are paid to. Norton, McAfee, et al, pay to get their stuff loaded onto new boxes because most people will simply get through the tiral period then sign up. Uninstalling either of these is like cleaning the virus attacks they are supposed to prevent. When I buy new machines, I uninstall all of that crap before I use the machine for the first time. I normally take MSN off, I turn Windows Messenger off and set it to not load. |
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