........I did something really dumb and now I'm in a quandry so here it goes.....
I was trying to free up space on my hard drive and thought it would be a great idea to delete some programs that I never use. So I went to Add/delete programs. One of the programs I deleted was MS office XP 2002. I had NO idea that excel, word, powerpoint, and publisher were all inside of office !!! When I realized my mistake, I did a system restore, but the damage had already been done. When I tried to open up word, or any of the other programs, I recieved the " Patch package could not be opened" message. I googled that, and it was recommended by MS that I download and use the Windows installer clean-up utility, which was supposed to remove all traces of the program so that I could re-install it. So I did that. BUT, when I tried re-installing with the office disk, I got the following...." error 1402 setup cannot open the registry key HKEY_local_machines\software\classes\giffile\shell\open\ddeexec.
....so I went to regedit and went to find that registy entry so that I could see if I needed to change the permissions, but.....that registry entry does not exist !!!....
...So, after googling that and going through endless threads looking for an answer to this problem, I could find no help. I think my final strategy is that I need to actually "write" or create this registry entry that Office wants to open. Does anyone have any answer to this? thanks
I was trying to free up space on my hard drive and thought it would be a great idea to delete some programs that I never use. So I went to Add/delete programs. One of the programs I deleted was MS office XP 2002. I had NO idea that excel, word, powerpoint, and publisher were all inside of office !!! When I realized my mistake, I did a system restore, but the damage had already been done. When I tried to open up word, or any of the other programs, I recieved the " Patch package could not be opened" message. I googled that, and it was recommended by MS that I download and use the Windows installer clean-up utility, which was supposed to remove all traces of the program so that I could re-install it. So I did that. BUT, when I tried re-installing with the office disk, I got the following...." error 1402 setup cannot open the registry key HKEY_local_machines\software\classes\giffile\shell\open\ddeexec.
....so I went to regedit and went to find that registy entry so that I could see if I needed to change the permissions, but.....that registry entry does not exist !!!....
...So, after googling that and going through endless threads looking for an answer to this problem, I could find no help. I think my final strategy is that I need to actually "write" or create this registry entry that Office wants to open. Does anyone have any answer to this? thanks