"Ted Bechel" <a-tebech@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Try to manually unregister and then reregister the MSO.dll.
>
> If that does not work run a repair of VS.NET with the following switches
> from the run window. D:\VS_SETUP.MSI /vocmus
> D: is the drive letter of your cd rom.
>
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> | Thread-Topic: Unable to launch VS NET 2003 after Office XP install
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> | From: "=?Utf-8?B?R2xlbm4=?=" <Glenn@discussions.microsoft.com>
> | Subject: Unable to launch VS NET 2003 after Office XP install
> | Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:39:02 -0700
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> | Hi,
> |
> | I am running VS NET 2003 EA Edition on Windows 2000 server, and have
> | recently removed MS Office 2000 and installed MS Office XP. Office is
> | working fine, however now whenever I try to launch VS NET I get a
Windows
> | Installer dialog box with the message "Preparing to Install" then it
> simply
> | crashes after a second or so.
> |
> | I found a KB article (873312) suggesting the cause of this problem is
> | MSO.DLL file, which is part of Office XP installation. It recommending
> that
> | I remove this file and repair my VS NET installation. I did this and
the
> | same problem still occurs.
> |
> | There is only a single instance of MSO.DLL on my system, in the
> C:\Program
> | Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Office10\ directory. Its original
> | timestamp and size is 06-Nov-2001 10:57 with a size of 9766KB. After
> running
> | the VS NET repair task it seems that EXACTLY the same MSO.DLL file is
> | replacing the erroneous one.
> |
> | I would have thought that IF this version of MSO.DLL was causing the
> problem
> | then it would be repaired with a DIFFERENT file. This doesn't seem to
be
> | occuring, which I think explains why my issue remains. Can this be
> confirmed
> | by anyone?
> |
> | Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated as my productivity
> has
> | been reduced to zero and I have a great deal of work to do.
> |
> | Please help...
> |
> | Thanks,
> |
> | Glenn.
> |
>