Re: registry errors after Office 2003 installation

Besides hosing your system, giving false information, and basically being nuisanceware, yeah, those programs are really great!

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After furious head scratching, ANONYMOUS asked:

| How do you know you have registry error? Can you run any of the
| office programs? Is your system running normally? If the answer is
| yes to both questions then YOU DON'T HAVE ANY REGISTRY ERRORS".
|
| If you have used those "crap" registry cleaner programs then I am not
| surprised you are getting false messages. Those programs are spywares
| and should be avoided at all costs!
|
| hth
|
|
| alden24 wrote:
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|| After installing Ofice 2003 Professional and its SP2, I found I now
|| had 22 new registry errors of the type:
||
|| The key "um:content-classes:catalog\DefaultIcon" refers to a missing
|| icon C:\ProgramFiles\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web
|| Folders\pkmres.dll,15. All refer to missing Office 2003 "Default
|| icons" of of one sort or another.
||
|| After downloading and installing available Office updates, I then
|| had 39 registry errors, the original 22 plus 17 PowerPoint "invalid
|| command entry" errors.
||
|| I was unable to correct any of these errors and have no idea how to
|| debug then.
||
|| Searching the knowing base here came up with nothing.
||
|| I'm using Windows XP SP2 on an eMachines tower with plenty of speed,
|| memory and disk space.
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