Strange Error Message

[Michael Windmeier]

Hello,

hope there is somebody who knows this strange behavior of Office XP

When I start excel, I always get a strange error message like follows:
'Office\Office10\EXCEL.EXE' could not be found. Check the spelling of
the file name and verify, that the file location is correct.
If you are trying to open the file from your list of most recently
used files of the file menu, make sure that the file has not been
renamed, moved or deleted.

This msgbox appears 2 times at startup and after clicking it, I can
work with excel without any problems.

I figured out, that office is installed 2 times in different pathes
(???).
The 1st path is:
c:\programme\microsoft office\office\office10
the 2nd path is:
c:\programme\microsoft office\office10
(it's a german version OS of WXP Home with the english version of
office XP)

This annoying message happens also when I start Access:
Microsoft Access can't find the database file
'Office\Office10\MSACCESS.EXE'. Make sure you entered the correct path
and filename.

Very strange is, that this happens not to winword. No annoying
messages.

Maybe a reason for that is a corrupt registry?

thx in advance

Michael

 

[Dave Peterson]

You could try reregistering excel:

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
"c:\thecorrectpath\excel" /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
"c:\thecorrectpath\excel" /regserver

(specify the path to correct version of excel.)

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

I don't use access, you could either try something similar (and hope no sparks
come from your pc) or post in one of the Access Newsgroups.

 

[Michael Windmeier]

I got the problem.

Office is deviding the path in two strings.
Example:
c:\programme\microsoft office\office10\excel.exe
1st string is: c:\programme\microsoft
2nd string is: office\office10\excel.exe

At startup the "excelpath" only includes the 2nd string.
Workaround at the moment:
complete deinstallation and new installation in path
c:\programme\MSOffice\Office10\*.* and its working fine.

Strange, isnt it?!

Michael

 

[Michael Windmeier]

Maybe a reason for that is a corrupt registry?

thx in advance

Michael

Hello everyone,

found the problem!!
It was a change in the registry as I thought.
The key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command
was changed to the value
"%1 %*"
But the right value for that is
"\"%1\" %*"

After changing, every Exe file will open without any strange error
message like Path not found.

greets
Michael