ted......have you installed the outlook security patches?.....if so, they
may be what's causing your problems....and you can't uninstall them,
unfortunately....the only thing you can do is uninstall office, run the
office 2k removal wizard and then reinstall office and don't add the patches
just uninstalling/reinstalling won't fix it.....you have to run the removal
wizard
actually i recieved a fix to install the office sr patches without the
outlook security patches from a friend of mine in australia...this was in an
australian magazine called PCAuthority April 2001 issue.....and here's what
he sent to my office group...this won't help ted but it is a way to install
the office updates without having them cripple outlook:
While reading one of my computer magazines I came across this useful tip,
which should be used at your own risk, because I'm not to blame if something
goes wrong...it worked for me though.
It involves the Office 2000 SP2, which when downloaded has that horrible
patch that removes access to virtually all attachments.
Ok. Now remember I'm not to blame if your Office installation goes
wrong...it worked for me fine, but this procedure is a little un-orthodox to
say the least.
I'll do this in step form.
1.. Get a copy of the Office 2000 SP2 thing. It's called sp2upd.exe and
it's around 8.8MB.
2.. Once downloaded, use WinZip to unzip it to a scratch folder. If you
are using WinZip 8 (and maybe 7 I can't remember), all you have to do is
right click on the file, and choose Extract to... and it opens WinZip and
allows you to create a place where to extract the files to. I used C:\O2K
Files, but you can make it up for yourself.
3.. Once the files have been extracted, you should have 12 MSP patch
files, a readme.doc and a program called ohotfix9.exe
4.. Delete the file called outlook.msp. Don't just rename it, because the
installer will still find it. Completely remove that sucker from your drive.
5.. You can now run the ohotfix9.exe file to patch the rest of the Office
installations. Make sure that all Office applications are closed first.
6.. You might be prompted to accept a licence agreement, you might not.
But make sure that you have the original Office CD's in the drive, because
you'll need them
7.. At the end of the procedure, you should receive a success message, and
that indicates everything went ok.
Now some problems I have personally found, that aren't mentioned in the
article. One my first run, it produced an error...can't remember exactly
what it was, as I was doing this at 3:30am in the morning. But it stopped
the entire installation. All I did was just start it again, and it ran
through perfectly.
Another thing. When checking the Help About in any O2K application, it still
shows the old version. But by checking the files against the readme.doc
(there are instructions there), it shows that they have been patched. Make
sure you read the readme.doc and you'll see what I mean. All you have to do
is find for example winword.exe and compare the version number to the one
that is supposed to be there after the patch, and they are identical.
OK. By doing all this, you'll be patching all 10 Access bugs, 23 Excel bugs,
4 FrontPage bugs, 9 Office Web Server bugs, 7 Other bugs, 1 PhotoEditor bug,
12 PowerPoint bugs, 1 Setup bug, and 40 Word bugs. But there are still 77
Outlook bugs that aren't patched. I recommend that you download these patchs
individually from the officeupdate site, and just skip that nasty patch that
blocks email attachments.
Linda
www.personal-computer-tutor.com
author, MS Word Magic!
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