Why am I being prompted for proret.msi when Office is installed?

[mcsellski]

I have had Office XP Pro installed on my laptop since Feb 2004. Why should I
suddenly be bombarded with with prompts for Proret.msi when I boot, start
word, Excel, PP etc? When I eventually found the damn CD nothing was
apparently installed. I'm only writing this because I'm so irritated by it,
not because I care about what it did.

Here is a suggestion for Office. Reduce the complexity, simplify the whole
thing. In Excel, allow decent size data sets for gods sake! 65k lines is
barely a few seconds worth of acquisition data. Remove the features that
no-one ever, ever uses. Put all that crap in the add-ons and let people pay
for them if they want to, put all the really useful stuff in the base package
and do your customers a favour. Sort out the drawing tools in Word to they
don't freak out all the time so you don't have to alt-tab backward and
forward to get a redraw, who wants to paste a text box inside a text box?
Answer, no-one, so many extra mouse clicks are needed to do the commonest
things. Rant over. I doubt anyone at MS will ever read this or even care if
they do!

Matthew

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Matthew,

The screen redraw issue is often an outdated graphics card or graphics chipset driver one. (Try during down the graphics
acceleration on your PC two clicks or so to test).

For some of the changes coming in the next version of Office you may want to check some of the content on
http://microsoft.com/office/preview including the Demo videos, the blogs and the Product guide documents for changes in each of the
apps under the Products=>Program links on the left side of the Preview site page. For example, MS Office Excel 2007 supports one
million rows and 16,000 columns of data.

As for why Office XP may be asking for the CD, it's often because something has broken in the installation and it needs to self
repair. This sometimes comes from the influence of outside apps and 'cleanup' products, but not always. Sometimes the Office apps
and the MS Installer simply detect a problem needing to be resolved.

========
I have had Office XP Pro installed on my laptop since Feb 2004. Why should I
suddenly be bombarded with with prompts for Proret.msi when I boot, start
word, Excel, PP etc? When I eventually found the damn CD nothing was
apparently installed. I'm only writing this because I'm so irritated by it,
not because I care about what it did.

Here is a suggestion for Office. Reduce the complexity, simplify the whole
thing. In Excel, allow decent size data sets for gods sake! 65k lines is
barely a few seconds worth of acquisition data. Remove the features that
no-one ever, ever uses. Put all that crap in the add-ons and let people pay
for them if they want to, put all the really useful stuff in the base package
and do your customers a favour. Sort out the drawing tools in Word to they
don't freak out all the time so you don't have to alt-tab backward and
forward to get a redraw, who wants to paste a text box inside a text box?
Answer, no-one, so many extra mouse clicks are needed to do the commonest
things. Rant over. I doubt anyone at MS will ever read this or even care if
they do!

Matthew >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Matthew,

The screen redraw issue is often an outdated graphics card or graphics chipset driver one. (Try during down the graphics
acceleration on your PC two clicks or so to test).

For some of the changes coming in the next version of Office you may want to check some of the content on
http://microsoft.com/office/preview including the Demo videos, the blogs and the Product guide documents for changes in each of the
apps under the Products=>Program links on the left side of the Preview site page. For example, MS Office Excel 2007 supports one
million rows and 16,000 columns of data.

As for why Office XP may be asking for the CD, it's often because something has broken in the installation and it needs to self
repair. This sometimes comes from the influence of outside apps and 'cleanup' products, but not always. Sometimes the Office apps
and the MS Installer simply detect a problem needing to be resolved.

========
I have had Office XP Pro installed on my laptop since Feb 2004. Why should I
suddenly be bombarded with with prompts for Proret.msi when I boot, start
word, Excel, PP etc? When I eventually found the damn CD nothing was
apparently installed. I'm only writing this because I'm so irritated by it,
not because I care about what it did.

Here is a suggestion for Office. Reduce the complexity, simplify the whole
thing. In Excel, allow decent size data sets for gods sake! 65k lines is
barely a few seconds worth of acquisition data. Remove the features that
no-one ever, ever uses. Put all that crap in the add-ons and let people pay
for them if they want to, put all the really useful stuff in the base package
and do your customers a favour. Sort out the drawing tools in Word to they
don't freak out all the time so you don't have to alt-tab backward and
forward to get a redraw, who wants to paste a text box inside a text box?
Answer, no-one, so many extra mouse clicks are needed to do the commonest
things. Rant over. I doubt anyone at MS will ever read this or even care if
they do!

Matthew >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Matthew,

The screen redraw issue is often an outdated graphics card or graphics chipset driver one. (Try during down the graphics
acceleration on your PC two clicks or so to test).

For some of the changes coming in the next version of Office you may want to check some of the content on
http://microsoft.com/office/preview including the Demo videos, the blogs and the Product guide documents for changes in each of the
apps under the Products=>Program links on the left side of the Preview site page. For example, MS Office Excel 2007 supports one
million rows and 16,000 columns of data.

As for why Office XP may be asking for the CD, it's often because something has broken in the installation and it needs to self
repair. This sometimes comes from the influence of outside apps and 'cleanup' products, but not always. Sometimes the Office apps
and the MS Installer simply detect a problem needing to be resolved.

========
I have had Office XP Pro installed on my laptop since Feb 2004. Why should I
suddenly be bombarded with with prompts for Proret.msi when I boot, start
word, Excel, PP etc? When I eventually found the damn CD nothing was
apparently installed. I'm only writing this because I'm so irritated by it,
not because I care about what it did.

Here is a suggestion for Office. Reduce the complexity, simplify the whole
thing. In Excel, allow decent size data sets for gods sake! 65k lines is
barely a few seconds worth of acquisition data. Remove the features that
no-one ever, ever uses. Put all that crap in the add-ons and let people pay
for them if they want to, put all the really useful stuff in the base package
and do your customers a favour. Sort out the drawing tools in Word to they
don't freak out all the time so you don't have to alt-tab backward and
forward to get a redraw, who wants to paste a text box inside a text box?
Answer, no-one, so many extra mouse clicks are needed to do the commonest
things. Rant over. I doubt anyone at MS will ever read this or even care if
they do!

Matthew >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Matthew,

The screen redraw issue is often an outdated graphics card or graphics chipset driver one. (Try during down the graphics
acceleration on your PC two clicks or so to test).

For some of the changes coming in the next version of Office you may want to check some of the content on
http://microsoft.com/office/preview including the Demo videos, the blogs and the Product guide documents for changes in each of the
apps under the Products=>Program links on the left side of the Preview site page. For example, MS Office Excel 2007 supports one
million rows and 16,000 columns of data.

As for why Office XP may be asking for the CD, it's often because something has broken in the installation and it needs to self
repair. This sometimes comes from the influence of outside apps and 'cleanup' products, but not always. Sometimes the Office apps
and the MS Installer simply detect a problem needing to be resolved.

========
I have had Office XP Pro installed on my laptop since Feb 2004. Why should I
suddenly be bombarded with with prompts for Proret.msi when I boot, start
word, Excel, PP etc? When I eventually found the damn CD nothing was
apparently installed. I'm only writing this because I'm so irritated by it,
not because I care about what it did.

Here is a suggestion for Office. Reduce the complexity, simplify the whole
thing. In Excel, allow decent size data sets for gods sake! 65k lines is
barely a few seconds worth of acquisition data. Remove the features that
no-one ever, ever uses. Put all that crap in the add-ons and let people pay
for them if they want to, put all the really useful stuff in the base package
and do your customers a favour. Sort out the drawing tools in Word to they
don't freak out all the time so you don't have to alt-tab backward and
forward to get a redraw, who wants to paste a text box inside a text box?
Answer, no-one, so many extra mouse clicks are needed to do the commonest
things. Rant over. I doubt anyone at MS will ever read this or even care if
they do!

Matthew >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Matthew,

The screen redraw issue is often an outdated graphics card or graphics chipset driver one. (Try during down the graphics
acceleration on your PC two clicks or so to test).

For some of the changes coming in the next version of Office you may want to check some of the content on
http://microsoft.com/office/preview including the Demo videos, the blogs and the Product guide documents for changes in each of the
apps under the Products=>Program links on the left side of the Preview site page. For example, MS Office Excel 2007 supports one
million rows and 16,000 columns of data.

As for why Office XP may be asking for the CD, it's often because something has broken in the installation and it needs to self
repair. This sometimes comes from the influence of outside apps and 'cleanup' products, but not always. Sometimes the Office apps
and the MS Installer simply detect a problem needing to be resolved.

========
I have had Office XP Pro installed on my laptop since Feb 2004. Why should I
suddenly be bombarded with with prompts for Proret.msi when I boot, start
word, Excel, PP etc? When I eventually found the damn CD nothing was
apparently installed. I'm only writing this because I'm so irritated by it,
not because I care about what it did.

Here is a suggestion for Office. Reduce the complexity, simplify the whole
thing. In Excel, allow decent size data sets for gods sake! 65k lines is
barely a few seconds worth of acquisition data. Remove the features that
no-one ever, ever uses. Put all that crap in the add-ons and let people pay
for them if they want to, put all the really useful stuff in the base package
and do your customers a favour. Sort out the drawing tools in Word to they
don't freak out all the time so you don't have to alt-tab backward and
forward to get a redraw, who wants to paste a text box inside a text box?
Answer, no-one, so many extra mouse clicks are needed to do the commonest
things. Rant over. I doubt anyone at MS will ever read this or even care if
they do!

Matthew >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Matthew,

The screen redraw issue is often an outdated graphics card or graphics chipset driver one. (Try during down the graphics
acceleration on your PC two clicks or so to test).

For some of the changes coming in the next version of Office you may want to check some of the content on
http://microsoft.com/office/preview including the Demo videos, the blogs and the Product guide documents for changes in each of the
apps under the Products=>Program links on the left side of the Preview site page. For example, MS Office Excel 2007 supports one
million rows and 16,000 columns of data.

As for why Office XP may be asking for the CD, it's often because something has broken in the installation and it needs to self
repair. This sometimes comes from the influence of outside apps and 'cleanup' products, but not always. Sometimes the Office apps
and the MS Installer simply detect a problem needing to be resolved.

========
I have had Office XP Pro installed on my laptop since Feb 2004. Why should I
suddenly be bombarded with with prompts for Proret.msi when I boot, start
word, Excel, PP etc? When I eventually found the damn CD nothing was
apparently installed. I'm only writing this because I'm so irritated by it,
not because I care about what it did.

Here is a suggestion for Office. Reduce the complexity, simplify the whole
thing. In Excel, allow decent size data sets for gods sake! 65k lines is
barely a few seconds worth of acquisition data. Remove the features that
no-one ever, ever uses. Put all that crap in the add-ons and let people pay
for them if they want to, put all the really useful stuff in the base package
and do your customers a favour. Sort out the drawing tools in Word to they
don't freak out all the time so you don't have to alt-tab backward and
forward to get a redraw, who wants to paste a text box inside a text box?
Answer, no-one, so many extra mouse clicks are needed to do the commonest
things. Rant over. I doubt anyone at MS will ever read this or even care if
they do!

Matthew >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Matthew,

The screen redraw issue is often an outdated graphics card or graphics chipset driver one. (Try during down the graphics
acceleration on your PC two clicks or so to test).

For some of the changes coming in the next version of Office you may want to check some of the content on
http://microsoft.com/office/preview including the Demo videos, the blogs and the Product guide documents for changes in each of the
apps under the Products=>Program links on the left side of the Preview site page. For example, MS Office Excel 2007 supports one
million rows and 16,000 columns of data.

As for why Office XP may be asking for the CD, it's often because something has broken in the installation and it needs to self
repair. This sometimes comes from the influence of outside apps and 'cleanup' products, but not always. Sometimes the Office apps
and the MS Installer simply detect a problem needing to be resolved.

========
I have had Office XP Pro installed on my laptop since Feb 2004. Why should I
suddenly be bombarded with with prompts for Proret.msi when I boot, start
word, Excel, PP etc? When I eventually found the damn CD nothing was
apparently installed. I'm only writing this because I'm so irritated by it,
not because I care about what it did.

Here is a suggestion for Office. Reduce the complexity, simplify the whole
thing. In Excel, allow decent size data sets for gods sake! 65k lines is
barely a few seconds worth of acquisition data. Remove the features that
no-one ever, ever uses. Put all that crap in the add-ons and let people pay
for them if they want to, put all the really useful stuff in the base package
and do your customers a favour. Sort out the drawing tools in Word to they
don't freak out all the time so you don't have to alt-tab backward and
forward to get a redraw, who wants to paste a text box inside a text box?
Answer, no-one, so many extra mouse clicks are needed to do the commonest
things. Rant over. I doubt anyone at MS will ever read this or even care if
they do!

Matthew >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Matthew,

The screen redraw issue is often an outdated graphics card or graphics chipset driver one. (Try during down the graphics
acceleration on your PC two clicks or so to test).

For some of the changes coming in the next version of Office you may want to check some of the content on
http://microsoft.com/office/preview including the Demo videos, the blogs and the Product guide documents for changes in each of the
apps under the Products=>Program links on the left side of the Preview site page. For example, MS Office Excel 2007 supports one
million rows and 16,000 columns of data.

As for why Office XP may be asking for the CD, it's often because something has broken in the installation and it needs to self
repair. This sometimes comes from the influence of outside apps and 'cleanup' products, but not always. Sometimes the Office apps
and the MS Installer simply detect a problem needing to be resolved.

========
I have had Office XP Pro installed on my laptop since Feb 2004. Why should I
suddenly be bombarded with with prompts for Proret.msi when I boot, start
word, Excel, PP etc? When I eventually found the damn CD nothing was
apparently installed. I'm only writing this because I'm so irritated by it,
not because I care about what it did.

Here is a suggestion for Office. Reduce the complexity, simplify the whole
thing. In Excel, allow decent size data sets for gods sake! 65k lines is
barely a few seconds worth of acquisition data. Remove the features that
no-one ever, ever uses. Put all that crap in the add-ons and let people pay
for them if they want to, put all the really useful stuff in the base package
and do your customers a favour. Sort out the drawing tools in Word to they
don't freak out all the time so you don't have to alt-tab backward and
forward to get a redraw, who wants to paste a text box inside a text box?
Answer, no-one, so many extra mouse clicks are needed to do the commonest
things. Rant over. I doubt anyone at MS will ever read this or even care if
they do!

Matthew >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview