Hi Peter,
No, this is not a solution since excel is not installed yet. I am installing
office, or at least I am trying. The installtion stops since it cannnot read
the sku001 cab file from the cd any more and I can't find it elsewhee.
thanks anyway for answering.
Eddy
"Peter Foldes" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > Copied from Mary Sauer MS MVP
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> follow these steps: (works most of the time with all sku.cab files)
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> 1. Click on start==>run==>type "excel /s" without quotations and click
> ok.
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> 2. Once Excel is up in safe mode with the error message in front, hold
> down ctrl+Alt+Delete keys on your keyboard to bring the task manager up.
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> 3. Click on the processes tab==>look for msiexec.exe (only the one next
> to your user name), click on it and end the process.
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> 4. Excel should be running without an error message now==>close Excel in
> safe mode==>reopen it one more time in safe mode to check if it is
> opening with no error message.
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> 5. Close Excel /s and open Excel normally, it should work fine.
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> The above solution was previously supplied by swaidan[ at ]NOSPAM-gmail.com
> (Bahboosh) on other dedicated Newsgroup.
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> Peter
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> "eddy" <eddy[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5C49F04D-EA49-4F45-B645-2DE1EB65F77C[ at ]microsoft.com...
> >I had to re-install windows and now I am trying to install office 2003 again
> > from my cd. The installation stops and asks for the SKU011.cab, but this cab
> > is on the cd. When I try to copy the cab manually to the msocache, I get the
> > message that windows cannot read from the device. I guess that there is a
> > problem on this CD and I can't find the cab anywhere.
> > Can somebody send me a solution, since all the other suggestions such as
> > changing a value in the reg don't work. I need this file!
> > Help!
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