SP2 broke Office 2003 - Outlook & Word

O

Oleh

This is my 2nd post. Word was the Outlook 2003 editor
before SP2 but now when I start a new email an error pops
up saying to the effect "Word is your editor but can't
use it...reverting to mail editor" and when I start a new
document in Word "This document cannot be
registered...cannot link to it" AND SP2 broke Windows
Installer...I had to d/l the registry fix from Kelly's
which worked just fine!

I already tried all the suggestions the error popup
suggested but to no avail; detect & repair, repair from
Add & Remove, reinstall Office 2003. Office 2003 is
totally up to date...no updates available.

Are there any fixes to SP2 planned? Thanks.

Oleh
 
J

Joe Billionaire

Well, since there doesn't seem to be any help on this AND on the other
things that broke with SP2 including Outlook 2003 (and Word 2003)
which WERE:

Windows Installer - broken
System Information - broken due to WMI, which was broken
Services editing - broken ability to stop, disable some services
Services Dependancies availability - broken
WMI - broken
RPC - altered & broken
DEC - totally fuzzy what this is, so assumed broken since too many
..exe's didn't work properly w/ or w/out it
Desktop Icon graphics - broken
Speed for anything (applications, windows, browser, surfing etc) -
lost 20%

Soooooooooo I did a CD repair and this happened:

All of the above - FIXED!
Word 2003 - no error msgs
Word 2003 Office Assistant - restored even though the little fool is
annoying!
Outlook 2003 - able to find Word 2003 as the editor
Speed for everything - gained 20%

All back to usual. Sorry MS but SP2 didn't work for me. I didn't
trust the Rollback either since I've seen issues with that posted.
 
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