Have I been deleting files? That's all I do every chance I get is delete
files. Seriously, I never installed Office 2003 nor have I had a demo run, I
only use 2000; but reinstalling Word and Excel 2000 fixed it. I'm told by a
member of the group that sku112.cab has something to do with the
installation of Excel. What it has to do and how it has to do I don't know.
I know the problem is fixed and I still can't find that file and google has
many links on it (mostly questions and complaints as I can see and my
patience wears thin when digging into details). And what the problem I had
before reinstalling (I suppose Excel) has to do with Outlook Express beats
all.
Ben and Babs, your links look interesting. Maybe someday :-) An aside: We
should note that in PCWorks, lurking behind all our stated problems and
solutions, are people who are quiet and yet very up on technical matters.
For example, here's Herb who sent me this solution:
1. Click on start==>run==>type "excel /s" without quotations and click ok.
2. Once Excel is up in safe mode with the error message in front, hold down
ctrl+Alt+Delete keys on your keyboard to bring the task manager up.
3. Click on the processes tab==>look for msiexec.exe (only the one next to
your user name), click on it and end the process.
4. Excel should be running without an error message now==>close Excel in
safe mode==>reopen it one more time in safe mode to check if it is opening
with no error message.
5. Close Excel /s and open Excel normally, it should work fine.
Looks interesting and to me over my head. I haven't tried it yet and I can
follow directions; next time Outlook Express is looking for sku112.cab, I'll
give it a "run" - I can always go back to reinstalling Excel which I know
works. Btw, through all this, Word and Excel are never giving me trouble. So
I'm reinstalling something that works to make something that has nothing to
do with what works .... work (how else could I say that?). --- Harold
Hi Harold,
Did you have a demo of word or office 2003 installed on your computer when
you got it? Did you uninstall it? This is a cab file from Office
Standard
2003 (Retail) . I don't know why it keeps coming up especially in Outlook
Express but who knows what MS has done.
Have you been deleting files again? Sometimes preinstalled stuff is in a
folder called MSO cache. In any case, you could try uninstalling
everything
that has to do with office, both your word and excel installations and
reinstalling them. Look in add/remove programs and uninstall anything
that
mentions office or any on the applications associated with it.
Here's the Knowledge base article
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;896866 .
I don't have that particular version of Office and each version of Office
2003 has a different skuXXX.cab file. Maybe someone on the list has it.
Although I'm not sure if you have it, it just wouldn't ask you for another
file when it found that one.
Ben Moore
I came up with this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884824/en-us
Babs
Original Problem
When opening Outlook Express, it opens, but followed by what looks like a
search for a file called "SKU112.CAB" ... with some mention of Microsoft
Office 2003, which I don't have..
Now I do have MS Offce 2000 but only use the Word and Excel.CD when
installing
them. Putting the CD in the drive didn't help. And that search window is
very
persistent; it almost won't give up searching for sku112.cab and I don't
have
it. To stop that sku112.cab "search" I have to hit cancel and where it
shows
up, the x button; a few times and eventually it stops and OE does its job.
Googling sku112.cab has many links but no clear site where I can download
sku112.cab. And if I had the file, I wouldn't know where to put it. Anyone
have any information on this? ... Harold
Problem Solved ... I reinstalled MS Office 2000 (just Word and Excel was
enough) ... and OE no longer asks for "sku112.cab" ... I wonder what the
relationship is or even what that file is. Doing a search in my system
shows
no such file exists ... Harold
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