Office Assistants from MS Agent Ring not working

[MelPhleg]

Win vista home; office xp pro.
followed instructions for 'Help Installing Characters' on MS character ring
(http://www.msagentring.org/chars.aspx ), but it wouldn't copy the asc file.
always came up with "an error occcured while copying file *.acs. cannot copy
file to destination directory. click retry to retry the operation or cancel
to (no further text)."

i can click retry all i want, but still does nothing and pops up with the
error message.
i click on cancel. it pops up with "do you want to continue setup without
copying this file?"
if i click yes, it pops up with "installation failed." i click ok, and it
pops up with " the *.acs character has been installed to your msagent/chars
folder." ha-ha. nothing there.
if i click no, and it only pops up with "the *.acs character has been
installed to your msagent/chars folder." still nothing there.

now what?
any ideas out there?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi MelPhleg,

You may want to use the link below to post this in the MS Agent discussion group as well. The instructions on
http://www.msagentring.org/charsinstall.aspx
were written for Windows 2000/XP to copy the .ACS (actor) files once downloaded to your computer. There may be differences in the
MS Agent engine working on Vista or on the permissions needed for the folders.

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Win vista home; office xp pro.
followed instructions for 'Help Installing Characters' on MS character ring
(http://www.msagentring.org/chars.aspx ), but it wouldn't copy the asc file.
always came up with "an error occcured while copying file *.acs. cannot copy
file to destination directory. click retry to retry the operation or cancel
to (no further text)."

i can click retry all i want, but still does nothing and pops up with the
error message.
i click on cancel. it pops up with "do you want to continue setup without
copying this file?"
if i click yes, it pops up with "installation failed." i click ok, and it
pops up with " the *.acs character has been installed to your msagent/chars
folder." ha-ha. nothing there.
if i click no, and it only pops up with "the *.acs character has been
installed to your msagent/chars folder." still nothing there.

now what?
any ideas out there? >>
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Please let us know if this has helped,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

LINKS
A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.msagent
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.msagent

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com