Re: Problem with objects

George,

THANK YOU!!

I certainly had the feeling it had something to do with the operating system
updates, partly because the problem came out of nowhere, but most of all
because the problems DISAPPEARED out of nowhere the last time I had them -
the only conceivable cause for that had to have been some kind of thing
coming from Microsoft itself. Now with you confirming that suspicion, I'm
"at peace," so to speak. I'll live with it as long as I can, until either I
decide to just re-install it all and avoid the updates, or until the next
update sets it right again. Crazy.

But once again, a big thanks to you.

John

"George Hester" <hesterloli@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> You know what this is man? It is Security Updates you have installed. 99%
> sure of that. That Application Server that is mentioned is a dll that no
> longer has permissions to do what it wants to do. The fix for an issue
> such
> as this is wait for Microsoft to re-re-re-re-release the update or install
> the op sys anew and don't install Security patches that have to do with
> prohibiting Micosoft Office usefulness and\or Microsoft Internet Explorer
> Cumulative Updates.
>
> --
>
> George Hester
> _________________________________
> "JMF" <jfavaro@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> A couple of years ago while using my laptop with Win2K and Office2000, I
>> suddenly found that I couldn't open equations that I had made in Word.
>> The
>> messages were things like "application server can't be found, would you
> like
>> to install it now?" And of course I did, and it made no difference.
>>
>> But then, I noticed that in fact it wasn't just with equations, it was
> with
>> ALL embedded objects, whether Excel spreadsheets or charts or whatever.
>> (Although interestingly it did work with Microsoft Picture Objects.)
>>
>> Oddly, at the same time I also found that I suddenly couldn't print out
>> e-mail messages from Outlook Express. Script errors.
>>
>> Then, perhaps even more odd, one day MANY months later, everything
> suddenly
>> worked again. I decided it might have been one of the many operating
> systems
>> updates, whereby one of them messed it up and another one put it right
>> again.
>>
>> Time passed and a couple of months ago I got a new laptop. This time XP
> home
>> edition and Office XP. I've used my new computer since then, and suddenly
>> three days ago ... the same problem all over again! Different operating
>> system, different Office, but same problem, EVEN INCLUDING THE PROBLEM
> WITH
>> PRINTING E-MAIL MESSAGES!
>>
>> So I'm just amazed, and for the life of me would like to know what has
>> happened. The only thing I can think of that I recently did was uninstall
>> Norton Virus and replace it with AVG. But frankly I didn't do an official
>> "before" and "after" test so I couldn't swear exactly at which point
> things
>> "broke."
>>
>> I did try one thing, though: my laptop came with WordPerfect installed,
>> so
> I
>> tried embedding something in a WordPerfect file to see what happens. I
> must
>> say that the error message was at least more informative. It was this:
>>
>> "OLE object could not be created. This is usually due to incorrect
>> information about the server in the Windows registration database."
>>
>> So this is what I'm currently guessing: *something* has messed up my
>> registration database, so that OLE doesn't find the various programs.
>> Unfortunately I know nothing about this area of the operating system, but
> I
>> figure I should at least try to set it right. I remember that when I
>> first
>> had the problem and tried reinstalling Office, it did *NOT* solve the
>> problem. But I just noticed that there is a "Windows Installer Cleanup,"
> and
>> wonder whether that might be useful/necessary in this case, so that
>> reinstalling actually makes a difference (I had the feeling something was
>> being "remembered" from one installation to the next and that's why
>> reinstallation wasn't making any difference.)
>>
>> So there it is, the problem. Anybody here have his interest piqued and
> some
>> idea about what could be done? It's a fascinating but very frustrating
>> problem and I'd prefer not to just wait until the next combination of odd
>> circumstances suddenly sets it all right again.
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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