can't open References

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Mike S

I have Excel 2002 installed on a Win 2000 Server running
Terminal Services. Users are running the Office
applications through their thin clients.

When I am in the Visual Basic Editor window, I go to the
Tools menu & choose References. But it won't open the
references. I get an error that says 'Error accessing the
system registry'. If I click Help, it says 'The
registration database for your system has been corrupted.
Run the Setup program for the host application again.'

I've run a Reinstall for Office XP & I still get the same
thing. I'm having troubles getting Office to uninstall -
so I haven't been able to try a complete
uninstall/reinstall. I've just done a reinstall over the
existing files.

Any help would be appreciated. I need to add Microsoft
ActiveX Data Objects to some projects through the
References.
 
Thanks Greg. I just happened to get lucky yesterday after
I posted my message & found the article that you referred
me to. It gave me exactly what I needed. And it referred
me to a Crystal Reports page that helped too (since the
registry problem actually came from installing Crystal
Reports 8). The little fix utility that came from
Crystal's site did the trick - it was faster than manually
fixing all of the keys that I had lost permission to.

Thanks again.

-----Original Message-----
Please see if the following articles are relevant.

269383 PRB: 'Error Accessing the System Registry' Message When Displaying
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=269383

296108 PRB: Various Issues in Visual Studio Programs on Windows NT-Based
Systems
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=296108

Hope this helps.

--
Greg Mansius [MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Mike S said:
I have Excel 2002 installed on a Win 2000 Server running
Terminal Services. Users are running the Office
applications through their thin clients.

When I am in the Visual Basic Editor window, I go to the
Tools menu & choose References. But it won't open the
references. I get an error that says 'Error accessing the
system registry'. If I click Help, it says 'The
registration database for your system has been corrupted.
Run the Setup program for the host application again.'

I've run a Reinstall for Office XP & I still get the same
thing. I'm having troubles getting Office to uninstall -
so I haven't been able to try a complete
uninstall/reinstall. I've just done a reinstall over the
existing files.

Any help would be appreciated. I need to add Microsoft
ActiveX Data Objects to some projects through the
References.
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