RE: XP SP2 and Offce 2003 problem

[mfhau]

Yes - I am getting it on every PC in our our office
There's no set remedy - I uninstall Service Pack then reinstall sometimes 2
or 3 times then eventually it works (of course rebooting twice in between)
The probelm isn't resticted to Word - the system will tell you that Windows
Installer is not configured so you can't run a repair.

Somebody at MicroNOHELPsoft really has to do something. I notice they
haven't chipped in here as I keep wasting my time fixing their balls up.

As for that propoganda manipulation with the list of affected programs -
it's a worry

"Harry Poorman" wrote:

> I mentioned this in another post about XP Tablet, but I also notice this
> same bug on a desktop. Has anyone run into a problem after installing sp2
> on a machine that has Office 2003? Once installed, you can no longer use
> Word as your Outlook Email editor. It give you a message that Word is not
> the correct version.
> Have noticed this on 2 seperate desktops as well as the table.
> Any clue?
>
> Harry Poorman
>
>
>
>

[mfhau]

I was wrong in my previous post - the PCs with Office Pro 2003 SP1 still
exhibit all the the silly behaviour as described (they didn't for at least
one reboot though). This doesn't happen on PCs with Office 2002/XP Sp3
installed - the upgrade to XP SP2 goes smoothly.

I have finally got around the problem on PCs with Office Pro 2003 SP1 by
doing a repair install to XP then applying SP2 again and then rebooting twice.

The problem - and there are many manifestations of it from what I have
discerned in various posts including Harry's at the start of this thread -
are related to either the COM + System Application Service - error 1067
and/or DCOM Server Process Launcher which is in a constant state of starting.
2 reboots after doing the repair install of XP all is ok. For some reason
it's not on the first reboot which can waste a lot of time!

Now can someone from Microhell take note of this - It does not happen on XP
PCs with Office 2002 SP3 - it happens on PCs with Office Pro 2003 Sp1 in my
experience which says to me that COM+ is ok.



"mfhau" wrote:

> Yes - I am getting it on every PC in our our office
> There's no set remedy - I uninstall Service Pack then reinstall sometimes 2
> or 3 times then eventually it works (of course rebooting twice in between)
> The probelm isn't resticted to Word - the system will tell you that Windows
> Installer is not configured so you can't run a repair.
>
> Somebody at MicroNOHELPsoft really has to do something. I notice they
> haven't chipped in here as I keep wasting my time fixing their balls up.
>
> As for that propoganda manipulation with the list of affected programs -
> it's a worry
>
> "Harry Poorman" wrote:
>
> > I mentioned this in another post about XP Tablet, but I also notice this
> > same bug on a desktop. Has anyone run into a problem after installing sp2
> > on a machine that has Office 2003? Once installed, you can no longer use
> > Word as your Outlook Email editor. It give you a message that Word is not
> > the correct version.
> > Have noticed this on 2 seperate desktops as well as the table.
> > Any clue?
> >
> > Harry Poorman
> >
> >
> >
> >