OL 2003 update broke my machine

[OutlookProblem]

It's hard to generate a Subject that will get attention

SITUATION:
I have an eMachines that came with XP Home Edition V5.1 (Build
2600.xpdp2.0.30422-1633:SP1). I loaded OL2003 Student for my daughter in
school.

WHAT I DID:
I downloaded the newest spam patch for OL 2003 from microsoft and installed
it directly (no saving). I had nothing running, including OL.

THE PROBLEM:
Now, every time a new message comes in, I get a notification box that says
"Preparing for Windows Installer" or something like that. It comes on and
goes off quickly, so I don't have a chance to read it.

I did a system restore to yesterday, and that didn't help. I did 2 more
restores; back a week, and back a month. Same thing. I get this annoying
warning that pops and goes away. Everything is working, but this is really a
nuisance.

Any way to fix this?

Thank you very much.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Help->Detect and Repair?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, OutlookProblem asked:

| It's hard to generate a Subject that will get attention
|
| SITUATION:
| I have an eMachines that came with XP Home Edition V5.1 (Build
| 2600.xpdp2.0.30422-1633:SP1). I loaded OL2003 Student for my
| daughter in school.
|
| WHAT I DID:
| I downloaded the newest spam patch for OL 2003 from microsoft and
| installed it directly (no saving). I had nothing running, including
| OL.
|
| THE PROBLEM:
| Now, every time a new message comes in, I get a notification box that
| says "Preparing for Windows Installer" or something like that. It
| comes on and goes off quickly, so I don't have a chance to read it.
|
| I did a system restore to yesterday, and that didn't help. I did 2
| more restores; back a week, and back a month. Same thing. I get
| this annoying warning that pops and goes away. Everything is
| working, but this is really a nuisance.
|
| Any way to fix this?
|
| Thank you very much.

 

[OutlookProblem]

Thanks for the response.

It just tried the "Detect and Repair" and received this Windows Installer
message:

"This patch package could not me opened. Verify that the patch package
exixtes and that you can accesss it or contact the application vendor to
verify that this is a valid Windows INstaller patch package."

In addition to that, I tried to re-install OL2003, and it won't let me. I
get the same error. I have an original Microsoft CD.

Any other ideas?


"

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You receive the "This patch package could not be opened" errror message in
Office 2003, in Office XP, or in Office 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;295823


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.


After furious head scratching, OutlookProblem
<[email protected]> asked this group:

| Thanks for the response.
|
| It just tried the "Detect and Repair" and received this Windows
| Installer message:
|
| "This patch package could not me opened. Verify that the patch package
| exixtes and that you can accesss it or contact the application vendor
| to verify that this is a valid Windows INstaller patch package."
|
| In addition to that, I tried to re-install OL2003, and it won't let
| me. I get the same error. I have an original Microsoft CD.
|
| Any other ideas?
|
|
| "
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Help->Detect and Repair?
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, OutlookProblem asked:
||
||| It's hard to generate a Subject that will get attention
|||
||| SITUATION:
||| I have an eMachines that came with XP Home Edition V5.1 (Build
||| 2600.xpdp2.0.30422-1633:SP1). I loaded OL2003 Student for my
||| daughter in school.
|||
||| WHAT I DID:
||| I downloaded the newest spam patch for OL 2003 from microsoft and
||| installed it directly (no saving). I had nothing running, including
||| OL.
|||
||| THE PROBLEM:
||| Now, every time a new message comes in, I get a notification box
||| that says "Preparing for Windows Installer" or something like that.
||| It comes on and goes off quickly, so I don't have a chance to read
||| it.
|||
||| I did a system restore to yesterday, and that didn't help. I did 2
||| more restores; back a week, and back a month. Same thing. I get
||| this annoying warning that pops and goes away. Everything is
||| working, but this is really a nuisance.
|||
||| Any way to fix this?
|||
||| Thank you very much.

 

[OutlookProblem]

Milly,

I think that did it. I looked ALL OVER for a fix like this, but I did not
find it. You have performed a valuable service -- THANK YOU!

Please feel free to use this message when it comes to evaluation time

THANKS AGAIN!!!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You are very welcome - glad it worked for you.

Happy holidays - my "minders" at Microsoft have their own methods for
monitoring activity but thanks for the offer.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, OutlookProblem asked:

| Milly,
|
| I think that did it. I looked ALL OVER for a fix like this, but I
| did not find it. You have performed a valuable service -- THANK YOU!
|
| Please feel free to use this message when it comes to evaluation time
|
|
| THANKS AGAIN!!!
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| You receive the "This patch package could not be opened" errror
|| message in Office 2003, in Office XP, or in Office 2000
|| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;295823
||
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
||
|| After furious head scratching, OutlookProblem
|| <[email protected]> asked this group:
||
||| Thanks for the response.
|||
||| It just tried the "Detect and Repair" and received this Windows
||| Installer message:
|||
||| "This patch package could not me opened. Verify that the patch
||| package exixtes and that you can accesss it or contact the
||| application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows INstaller
||| patch package."
|||
||| In addition to that, I tried to re-install OL2003, and it won't let
||| me. I get the same error. I have an original Microsoft CD.
|||
||| Any other ideas?
|||
|||
||| "
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| Help->Detect and Repair?
||||
|||| --Â
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due
|||| to the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|||| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, OutlookProblem asked:
||||
||||| It's hard to generate a Subject that will get attention
|||||
||||| SITUATION:
||||| I have an eMachines that came with XP Home Edition V5.1 (Build
||||| 2600.xpdp2.0.30422-1633:SP1). I loaded OL2003 Student for my
||||| daughter in school.
|||||
||||| WHAT I DID:
||||| I downloaded the newest spam patch for OL 2003 from microsoft and
||||| installed it directly (no saving). I had nothing running,
||||| including OL.
|||||
||||| THE PROBLEM:
||||| Now, every time a new message comes in, I get a notification box
||||| that says "Preparing for Windows Installer" or something like
||||| that. It comes on and goes off quickly, so I don't have a chance
||||| to read it.
|||||
||||| I did a system restore to yesterday, and that didn't help. I did
||||| 2 more restores; back a week, and back a month. Same thing. I
||||| get this annoying warning that pops and goes away. Everything is
||||| working, but this is really a nuisance.
|||||
||||| Any way to fix this?
|||||
||||| Thank you very much.