Re: Office Enterprise 2007 disabled other programs
- From: SteveD <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 23:50:01 -0700
I'm sorry, I didn't explain my problem correctly. I've been so frustrated by
this that I sometimes forget myself.
The programs that are disabled are programs that were on my computer and
working fine prior to my installation of Office 2007. In each case, the
icons for the programs have disappeared from my desktop or taskbar, and the
"exe" files for these program have been changed to "ex_". Also, numerous
"dll" files have been changed to "dl_". I think other extensions have been
changed, too. Almost every file in the C:\I386 directory now has an
extension that ends with an underscore instead of a letter.
Here are some programs that have been altered:
All games in the Start menu (Hearts, Minesweeper, Solitaire, etc.)
The volume control in the taskbar
A commercial program (National Geographic)
Paint (all .bmp files now are unrecognized)
My Internet Explorer icon has disappeared, but I can still open IE
through shortcuts that are still on my desktop.
There may be more, but I haven't discovered them all yet. However, some
programs, both commercial and pre-installed, continue to work. I also now
have Netscape on my computer, though I don't know why.
I did the default installation, and didn't customize anything. I didn't
monitor the computer closely during the installation.
Thank you.
Steve
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
The installed versions of these programs would be in C:\Program.
Files\Microsoft Office\Office12.
Do you see anything there?
Choose Start - Programs - Microsoft Office. Are there programs listed there?
When you installed, did you accept the setup defaults, or did you do a
custom installation and make some changes?
I would go into Control Panel, find Office 2007, and attempt a repair.
--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
"SteveD" <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Then why have I lost access to all these programs?
"Mary Sauer" wrote:
The shortened extension names in the I386 folder is normal.
--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
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"SteveD" <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently installed Office Enterprise 2007 on my home laptop. On the
advice
of my IT guy, I first uninstalled all previous versions of Office, did
a Disk
Cleanup, a Defrag, a restart, then installed Office Enterprise 2007.
Now, hundreds (maybe thousands) of files have had their extensions
renamed.
Many programs will not run because their ".exe" extensions have been
changed
to ".ex_". Also, some ".dll" files have been changed to ".dl_" and
similar
changes have happend to other file extensions. This has mostly
happened in
the C:\I386 directory, but I think it has happened in some directories
for
commercial programs as well.
I've searched the web, and can't find any other references to this
happening. I'd appreciate any words of wisdom.
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