Shoutbox

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>

is it ose.exe?

uhh, i have 3 files currently in "%programfiles%\outlook express":
msimn.exe
msoe.dll
wabimp.dll

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Originally posted by Voldemort
is it ose.exe?

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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)...


MeEtc,
Do you have the Office installation CDROM (if not find it )... Try to reinstall, or repair, office with that cdrom in the drive.

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

Other things to try:

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

Reinstall Outlook Express...

reinstalled Installer, no change. I can't find OE on the downloads site, only security updates

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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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

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