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Question about 'Kill the Office Paperclip!'
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Question about 'Kill the Office Paperclip!'
Monday, February 18, 2002 at 1:47 am
Posted by Derek Tay
(5 messages posted)
Whenever I start office 2000 Word, Excel or Powerpoint, I get the Office Assistant
popup window which says 'The Office Assistant could not be started. Please repair
the Assistant by running Office 2000 setup and selecting "Repair Office 2000"'.
I have done so but the popup is still there. I have even reformated my hard-disk
hoping to completely clean up whatever remants settings, etc [One good side-effect
is that I managed to reclaim substantial amount of hard-disk space :)) ]
The bad news is that it still didn't work. Would appreciate any advice. Thanks
and have a pleasant day.
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re: Question about 'Kill the Office Paperclip!'
Monday, February 18, 2002 at 7:15 am
Posted by max f
(50 messages posted)
I don't really know what to say but I do have a suggestion.... Maybe your Windows
2000 CD is corrupt? I doubt it but I couldn't think of anything else. Hey wait a
sec, this is a Windows 98 discussion forum! Go to your own OS's forum! Hehehe just
jokin. Good luck. Knowledge is power. Share it.
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I read about a paper clip virus
Monday, February 18, 2002 at 7:23 am
Posted by CoolSights2000
(983 messages posted)
maybe someone can steer you to the virus name
the errors where caused by the virus....
On Monday, February 18, 2002 at 1:47 am, Derek Tay wrote:
>Whenever I start office 2000 Word, Excel or Powerpoint, I get the Office Assistant
>popup window which says 'The Office Assistant could not be started. Please repair
>the Assistant by running Office 2000 setup and selecting "Repair Office 2000"'.
>
>I have done so but the popup is still there. I have even reformated my hard-disk
>hoping to completely clean up whatever remants settings, etc [One good side-effect
>is that I managed to reclaim substantial amount of hard-disk space :)) ]
>
>The bad news is that it still didn't work. Would appreciate any advice. Thanks
>and have a pleasant day.
>
>
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re: Question about 'Kill the Office Paperclip!'
Monday, February 18, 2002 at 5:28 pm
Posted by Derek Tay
(5 messages posted)
Thanks Max F and Vernon for your responses.... : )
I am running Win98 but using Office2000. Both CDs are fine as I have been using this
config for 1-2 years. However, recently, I junked my older PC and plunk in the old
2-partitioned hard-disk as a data archive so now I got 6 drives partitions C-H.
Could this have cause some interference? I know that Lotus Notes drive setting didn't
automatically work. Appreciate any additional info and thanks for sharing the POWER!!
: ))
Derek
On Monday, February 18, 2002 at 7:15 am, max f wrote:
>I don't really know what to say but I do have a suggestion.... Maybe your Windows
>2000 CD is corrupt? I doubt it but I couldn't think of anything else. Hey wait a
>sec, this is a Windows 98 discussion forum! Go to your own OS's forum! Hehehe just
>jokin. Good luck. Knowledge is power. Share it.
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re: Question about 'Kill the Office Paperclip!'
Monday, March 4, 2002 at 5:50 pm
Posted by Derek Tay
(5 messages posted)
As a closure to this query, I found that if I set Virtual Memory back to be managed
by Win98, the problem goes away. Previously, I disabled Virtual Memory as I have
384MB RAMs and was trying to optimise on the use of swapfile. Thanks anyway,for
responses from Max F and Vernon
Have a nice day.. : ))
On Monday, February 18, 2002 at 1:47 am, Derek Tay wrote:
>Whenever I start office 2000 Word, Excel or Powerpoint, I get the Office Assistant
>popup window which says 'The Office Assistant could not be started. Please repair
>the Assistant by running Office 2000 setup and selecting "Repair Office 2000"'.
>
>I have done so but the popup is still there. I have even reformated my hard-disk
>hoping to completely clean up whatever remants settings, etc [One good side-effect
>is that I managed to reclaim substantial amount of hard-disk space :)) ]
>
>The bad news is that it still didn't work. Would appreciate any advice. Thanks
>and have a pleasant day.
>
>
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re: Question about 'Kill the Office Paperclip!'
Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 6:29 am
Posted by edicer
(1 messages posted)
Does it happen for all users of that pc? If it is just one user, then delete the
user profile.
On Monday, February 18, 2002 at 1:47 am, Derek Tay wrote:
>Whenever I start office 2000 Word, Excel or Powerpoint, I get the Office Assistant
>popup window which says 'The Office Assistant could not be started. Please repair
>the Assistant by running Office 2000 setup and selecting "Repair Office 2000"'.
>
>I have done so but the popup is still there. I have even reformated my hard-disk
>hoping to completely clean up whatever remants settings, etc [One good side-effect
>is that I managed to reclaim substantial amount of hard-disk space :)) ]
>
>The bad news is that it still didn't work. Would appreciate any advice. Thanks
>and have a pleasant day.
>
>
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re: Question about 'Kill the Office Paperclip!'
Saturday, June 14, 2003 at 3:42 am
Posted by spook
(2 messages posted)
I have had the same problem, I have 786MB of RAM and I disabled the swap file as
System Monitor logs showed it was never used, this resulted in the loss of "Standby"
option, so I set it at fixed 5MB, this repaired the no "Standby" problem.
Now I got the endless loop mentioned above, so I am going to set it to 50MB Fixed
as I have before, when the assistant was working.
I am running Office 2000 Small Business on Windows98 SE Operating System.
Apparently Windows98 NEEDS A SWAP FILE...
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 6:29 am, edicer wrote:
>Does it happen for all users of that pc? If it is just one user, then delete the
>user profile.
>
>
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re: Question about 'Kill the Office Paperclip!'
Saturday, June 14, 2003 at 8:43 am
Posted by Luke
(34 messages posted)
Just a small revision for Windows 98 SE devotees, setting the Swapfile at 50MB's
fixed the 2 problems, however DirectX 9.0a (Redistributable) dxdiag test, reports
incorrect "Swapfile size in use", I found a fixed 20MB win386.swp file does the trick...summary;
Fix the Swapfile at 20MB's minimum/maximum, this allows;
1. Office 2000 animated "Assistant" to function.
2. DirectX 9.0a "Diagnostic" test will correctly report Swapfile in use size, (ZERO).
3. Allows "Standby" option availability and functionality.
On Saturday, June 14, 2003 at 3:42 am, Luke wrote:
>I have had the same problem, I have 786MB of RAM and I disabled the swap file as
>System Monitor logs showed it was never used, this resulted in the loss of "Standby"
>option, so I set it at fixed 5MB, this repaired the no "Standby" problem.
>
>Now I got the endless loop mentioned above, so I am going to set it to 50MB Fixed
>as I have before, when the assistant was working.
>
>I am running Office 2000 Small Business on Windows98 SE Operating System.
>
>Apparently Windows98 NEEDS A SWAP FILE...
>
>
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re: Question about 'Kill the Office Paperclip!'
Thursday, May 27, 2004 at 8:21 am
Posted by Stephen Weinstein
(1 messages posted)
You need to enable virtual memory or increase the size of your paging file. Go to
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=236822 for detailed explanation and instructions.
On Monday, February 18, 2002 at 1:47 am, Derek Tay wrote:
>Whenever I start office 2000 Word, Excel or Powerpoint, I get the Office Assistant
>popup window which says 'The Office Assistant could not be started. Please repair
>the Assistant by running Office 2000 setup and selecting "Repair Office 2000"'.
>
>I have done so but the popup is still there. I have even reformated my hard-disk
>hoping to completely clean up whatever remants settings, etc [One good side-effect
>is that I managed to reclaim substantial amount of hard-disk space :)) ]
>
>The bad news is that it still didn't work. Would appreciate any advice. Thanks
>and have a pleasant day.
>
>
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