Shoutbox

MeEtc,

Official "How to obtain and install OE":
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B270696

Official "How to manually remove and reinstall OE":
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B263837

(= in first 5 links of google search 'reinstall outlook express')

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I doubt it... osa.exe is the most useless file ever which does actually nothing but sitting in memory (well it makes that you could have a nice old fashioned old looking office toolbar and that office programs are started up 1ms faster)...

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i had the same problem... the file was named ose.exe... was not able to fix

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osa.exe and ose.exe are completely different things....
osa is Office Startup Assistent (the most useless program ever)
ose is Office Source Engine (a service which must be running if you update office)

(shows again that when you provide info, you must be as accurate as possible and use the correct names  )

If you have a ose related error, try:
- Start > Run > services.msc
- In servicelist, try to find and double click 'Office Source Engine'
- If startup type is set to 'Disabled', change it to 'Manual'
- Reboot (not really needed, but you never know)

hey cookie, does osa do something every time you try to open a document? or is it just one of those startup daemons that force a cache of a program in memory?

The main purpose is to keep some common stuff initilized (aka: memory used wasted) used by Office so that Office applications start up a bit quicker.

But you really wont notice the difference if I may say so (especially on the fast PCs of today)...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/165071
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290144

and, thanks to the very clever paging system, it all gets paged to the hard disk anyway talk about an episode in pointlessness.

OK, So I have done a repair instal of Windows, to no avail. I can boot normally now, but anything Explorer related will make it die again...

I tried removing Office, the bar freezes halfway into 'preparing the necesary data' or whatever.

lol doublepost, but i have more info, and i need a bump

I have booted to safe mode after the repair install, and everything seems normal enough. This is an improvement! Sadly, I cannot repair or uninstall Office from within safe mode. I have tried both booting with the Office CD in and out to fix the install error, but there's no difference between them.

I'm gonna try to make another user account, to see if its linked to just that


EDIT: This is even weirder: windows is acting normally again

just randomly. meh