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So i was uninstalling some old programs from my computer yesterday, and deleting some useless files and folders. Since then, whenever I try to do anything that has to do with Windows programs, I keep getting a Windows Installer box, preparing the install of Office. After the progress bar for the installer goes to 100%, either it starts over, or just closes, and I get an illegal operation for either Explorer, or whatever i was trying to run (like taskmgr...)

One of the folders I attempted to delete was for outlook express, as I do not use it. Maybe this could be the culprit?

I would have done a repair install of windows, but my install files are on an ISO, and Nero also suffers from the illegal operations...

I cannot boot to windows normally, I am running from Safe Mode. I also have Fedora installed on another disk, but for some reason the driver for my wireless card disappeared, I will be trying to remedy that.


Please help?? <insert sad puppy face here>

This post was edited on 04-27-2007 at 02:44 AM by MeEtc.
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RE: HELP! Major computer ouchie!
is it ose.exe?
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uhh, i have 3 files currently in "%programfiles%\outlook express":
msimn.exe
msoe.dll
wabimp.dll
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is it ose.exe?
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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Do you have the Office installation CDROM (if not find it :p)... Try to reinstall, or repair, office with that cdrom in the drive.

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Thanks Cookie, but I have already tried that.

I have the 2003 disk, but the installer crashes when it tries to autorun. I cannot access Explorer within Windows, either to manually copy files (I could try in Linux...)

oh, and I have an XP home CD, but I don't know how useful it will be
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Other things to try:

Reinstall Windows Installer (can be found on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/ )

Reinstall Outlook Express...

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reinstalled Installer, no change. I can't find OE on the downloads site, only security updates
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RE: HELP! Major computer ouchie!
I don't know if this can help :

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads...e6sp1/default.mspx  (Comes with outlook express)

or :

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/E-mail/E-ma...look-Express.shtml

OE only.

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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)...


i had the same problem... the file was named ose.exe... was not able to fix
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O.P. RE: HELP! Major computer ouchie!
neither of those links work, it's saying a newer version is already installed. I'm gonna go into linux now, see if i can fix ndiswrapper, and maybe burn the XP pro iso to do a repair install.

Thanks for your help so far people

k, i'm on linux now at least

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