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Bryce went to install Norton on my computer. Then everything went a little hooey. My add/remove program options are simply gone. There's nothing in the box. He was like, "Well, that's not good..." We planned on doing a full wipe of my computer within the next week and just sorta shrugged.

Then I opened Outlook. See the comments for what happened -- I took a fun screenshot.

Posted by kim on 10/3/03 at 12:39AM


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Amazing!



It opens Outlook, downloads my mail, then when I try to click on anything inside the program, that nifty little error comes up. You would think if the program could open, it would be installed. Apparently not, even though it still does have the capability to check my mail... I just can't get to it.

Posted by kim on 10/3/03 at 12:41AM

Silly Kim...

Trying to run a program that's not installed. ^_^

Y'know, you'd think Microst programs would be those most likely to handle crashes and system malfunctions gracefully. But nooooo... When things go wrong, it's always Outlook, Office, etc. that go belly-up in spectacular manners.

When I used to do IT work, we always groaned whenever we had to uninstall Microsoft Office, either completely or partially. An uninstall required the original CD for some arcane, stupid reason, and apparently there were five or six different builds that weren't marked on the CD, because we inevitably ended up bringing entire stacks of Office CDs with us to do these uninstalls, and sat and cycled through looking for one that worked. I've actually had it refuse every CD we had, and uninstalled Office MANUALLY - a task I hope never to repeat.

Posted by martin on 10/3/03 at 6:07AM

It isn't arcane,

it's demonic. And a quick note on email clients, I installed Eudora back in freshman year, and I have done nothing but copy that directory from computer to computer since then, works great!

Posted by chris on 10/3/03 at 7:06AM

the unspecified "application"

This error message might actually be referring to some helper application that Outlook is trying to use to show your mail. That would make a little more sense (though I'm not discouting the possibility that it really is as stupid as has been speculated...)

Posted by brian on 10/3/03 at 8:51AM


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