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[Bill]

Hummmm? Maybe I "shot a hole in my foot"?
I might have deleted a Temp directory on the
system hard-drive during some manual clean up
back a few days. How does one fix that problem?
Does a simple creation of a Temp directory in
the root of c: do the trick?

Bill

 

[Dave]

Bill,
Yes I have similar probs, except that I did a part total re install. That is
I chnged the name of my windows directory to "old", (used Bart PE), then ran
Xp install etc. Then XP Office, Etc.
At this stage all, except for Access, works like a charm, but like you then
it is "preparing to install "and then the bean counter, then nothing in
the way of Access. I have tried a number of repairs since, all to no avail.
Dave

 

[Dave]

Bill,
Yes I have similar probs, except that I did a part total re install. That is
I chnged the name of my windows directory to "old", (used Bart PE), then ran
Xp install etc. Then XP Office, Etc.
At this stage all, except for Access, works like a charm, but like you then
it is "preparing to install "and then the bean counter, then nothing in
the way of Access. I have tried a number of repairs since, all to no avail.
Dave

 

[Dave]

Bill,
Yes I have similar probs, except that I did a part total re install. That is
I chnged the name of my windows directory to "old", (used Bart PE), then ran
Xp install etc. Then XP Office, Etc.
At this stage all, except for Access, works like a charm, but like you then
it is "preparing to install "and then the bean counter, then nothing in
the way of Access. I have tried a number of repairs since, all to no avail.
Dave

 

[Dave]

Bill,
Yes I have similar probs, except that I did a part total re install. That is
I chnged the name of my windows directory to "old", (used Bart PE), then ran
Xp install etc. Then XP Office, Etc.
At this stage all, except for Access, works like a charm, but like you then
it is "preparing to install "and then the bean counter, then nothing in
the way of Access. I have tried a number of repairs since, all to no avail.
Dave

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Bill,

In current versions of Windows the default location for temp folders seem to be tied to Username profile locations, but, yes you can
create a temp folder as you described and then 'tell' Windows what location you want to use as a temp file by

1. Clicking 'Start' then

2. Right clicking on 'My Computer'

3. Select 'Properties' then

4. In the next dialog choose
Advanced=>[nvironment Variables]
and there

5. Set the location for the
TEMP and TMP variables
(note that there are both User and System settings).
=================
Hummmm? Maybe I "shot a hole in my foot"?
I might have deleted a Temp directory on the
system hard-drive during some manual clean up
back a few days. How does one fix that problem?
Does a simple creation of a Temp directory in
the root of c: do the trick?

Bill >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Bill,

In current versions of Windows the default location for temp folders seem to be tied to Username profile locations, but, yes you can
create a temp folder as you described and then 'tell' Windows what location you want to use as a temp file by

1. Clicking 'Start' then

2. Right clicking on 'My Computer'

3. Select 'Properties' then

4. In the next dialog choose
Advanced=>[nvironment Variables]
and there

5. Set the location for the
TEMP and TMP variables
(note that there are both User and System settings).
=================
Hummmm? Maybe I "shot a hole in my foot"?
I might have deleted a Temp directory on the
system hard-drive during some manual clean up
back a few days. How does one fix that problem?
Does a simple creation of a Temp directory in
the root of c: do the trick?

Bill >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Bill,

In current versions of Windows the default location for temp folders seem to be tied to Username profile locations, but, yes you can
create a temp folder as you described and then 'tell' Windows what location you want to use as a temp file by

1. Clicking 'Start' then

2. Right clicking on 'My Computer'

3. Select 'Properties' then

4. In the next dialog choose
Advanced=>[nvironment Variables]
and there

5. Set the location for the
TEMP and TMP variables
(note that there are both User and System settings).
=================
Hummmm? Maybe I "shot a hole in my foot"?
I might have deleted a Temp directory on the
system hard-drive during some manual clean up
back a few days. How does one fix that problem?
Does a simple creation of a Temp directory in
the root of c: do the trick?

Bill >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Bill,

In current versions of Windows the default location for temp folders seem to be tied to Username profile locations, but, yes you can
create a temp folder as you described and then 'tell' Windows what location you want to use as a temp file by

1. Clicking 'Start' then

2. Right clicking on 'My Computer'

3. Select 'Properties' then

4. In the next dialog choose
Advanced=>[nvironment Variables]
and there

5. Set the location for the
TEMP and TMP variables
(note that there are both User and System settings).
=================
Hummmm? Maybe I "shot a hole in my foot"?
I might have deleted a Temp directory on the
system hard-drive during some manual clean up
back a few days. How does one fix that problem?
Does a simple creation of a Temp directory in
the root of c: do the trick?

Bill >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*