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christyxx1971
I have been running Excel 2003 (Part of Office 2003) under Win2K for
ages. All of a sudden, apparently after installing Security Update for
Excel 2003 (KB905756), Excel will no longer open. The flash screen
appears for an instant and then disappears. Trying to open it through
PowerPro gives me an error message saying that there has been a
"sharing/network protection error". MS Computer Management identifies
the error as Event ID 2001 (which doesn't provide too much information)
and adds the description: Rejected Safe Mode action. After trying a
number of quick fixes ( such as refreshing registry entries and MS
Setup repair, starting in Safe Mode, both for Windows and Excel, etc.),
I finally gave up and just uninstalled Office and did a fresh
installation. No luck. Same problem. Hmmmm.... This is getting serious.
I then went so far as to manually delete all Office files everywhere
and then manually deleted all references to Office in the registry so
as not to rely on the uninstall program. Then tried what I thought
would be a perfectly clean reinstall from the original CD with all
cached and temp files deleted. No joy. Same old result.
Open Office works perfectly and opens my xml files like a charm, so
it's not a file problem.
I want to avoid going back to an earlier Ghost image which would no
doubt clear up the problem since I have made a number of modifications
since my last imaging session.
I'm stumped. Any ideas?
ages. All of a sudden, apparently after installing Security Update for
Excel 2003 (KB905756), Excel will no longer open. The flash screen
appears for an instant and then disappears. Trying to open it through
PowerPro gives me an error message saying that there has been a
"sharing/network protection error". MS Computer Management identifies
the error as Event ID 2001 (which doesn't provide too much information)
and adds the description: Rejected Safe Mode action. After trying a
number of quick fixes ( such as refreshing registry entries and MS
Setup repair, starting in Safe Mode, both for Windows and Excel, etc.),
I finally gave up and just uninstalled Office and did a fresh
installation. No luck. Same problem. Hmmmm.... This is getting serious.
I then went so far as to manually delete all Office files everywhere
and then manually deleted all references to Office in the registry so
as not to rely on the uninstall program. Then tried what I thought
would be a perfectly clean reinstall from the original CD with all
cached and temp files deleted. No joy. Same old result.
Open Office works perfectly and opens my xml files like a charm, so
it's not a file problem.
I want to avoid going back to an earlier Ghost image which would no
doubt clear up the problem since I have made a number of modifications
since my last imaging session.
I'm stumped. Any ideas?
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