Re: Home-Professional confusion

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From: Curt (no-no_at_notime.com)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:11:14 -0500

Have you tried a system restore to point prior to installing the add-on? 

-- 
Curt.
"James" <james@leupolurobb.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:30a101c4aeb6$74f8a670$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> I recently received an Email with a Word attachment, and
> when I went to open it, I got a message saying that I
> needed to install a Chinese characters add-on to view it.
> I opted to do this, only to be told that this add-on is
> only available if you have Professional Edition of WinXP
> (I only have Home edition). I didn't mind this too much.
>
> Trouble is, now every time I open word, I get prompted to
> insert XP Professional discs, followed by a series of
> error messages (because I obviously can't do this) before
> it finally opens.
>
> Obviously the attempt to install the Chinese characters
> has confused my computer, and it now thinks I should have
> XP Pro, and gets angry because I don't have it. Is there
> any way I can reverse this, and stop the computer from
> looking for the non-existent XP Pro each time it starts up
> Word?

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