Install message when using Outlook 2003 and Visio 2007

[Hank Scorpio]

This isn't a critical issue, just an irritating one; the kind that MS
seems to excel at.

I have Office 2003 Professional on my desktop (Win XP SP2.) I also
have Visio 2007, since that version hasn't been infected by the stupid
bleeping ribbon and other U.I. "improvements" which have trashed 20
years worth of user training.

Since installing Visio, when downloading some, not all, messages for
the fist time in a session, a dialog appears in Outlook 2003 telling
me that it's installing something relating to Visio 2007. If left to
its own devices, the dialog will just proceed along, show a progress
bar, and eventually tell me that I need to restart for the changes to
take effect. However most of the time I cancel it because I don't feel
like having my e-mail download delayed while a useless dialog does
nothing of any value.

Has anyone else encountered something like this and if so, could they
please tell me which iron bar I need to use to club the dialog across
the head and kill it permanently?

 

[Matthew Petrofski]

Hi Hank,

The error message and wait time is seriously annoying. While searching for the answer to the same problem I came across a Microsoft Knowledge Base article on the issue. I'm about to install SP2 now...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925834

Hope it works for you!

 

[Hank Scorpio]

Hi Hank,
The error message and wait time is seriously annoying. While searching for the answer to the same problem I came across a Microsoft Knowledge Base article on the issue. I'm about to install SP2 now...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925834
Hope it works for you!

Huh... I have no idea how I missed that one; I did do a search of the
KB before posting, but either I used the wrong words or the search
engine was feeling flaky that day.

In any case, I've just downloaded Office 2003 SP3. So far one e-mail
has come in which didn't trigger it off. So far, so good.

Many thanks, Matthew!