| Subject: Help! MS Office is hosed because of IE8 |
| Group: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general |
| Date: 9/3/2008 4:51:01 PM |
| From: =?Utf-8?B?d29yZG11c2U=?= [Email Address Protection] |
IE8 is giving me a lot of heartburn. I tried to install it on my Acer Vista machine. The program gave it a good try and failed, saying that it couldn't do the installation and that I should reboot in order to return things to the way they were. Ahhh - the way they were. Has a nice ring to it doesn't it? Well, I did as instructed. But then I had a Word doc to write. I finished and tried to save. Word crashed. The Save dialog looks all corrupted. So I tried Excel and Powerpoint. Same pattern. I tried Visio. No luck. I tried my Open Office programs. No luck. I tried other kinds of programs, like Notetab Pro. That works fine. I can save my files there. I tried exporting from Google Docs to a Word format. That works fine. (So I can use Google to create Word documents! How ironic.) Thunderbird works fine. Paint Shop Pro, Real Draw and Xara work fine. I contacted Microsoft. They said it's an Acer problem and I should contact them. I contacted Acer and they told me to wipe my system clean and start over. Apparently the fact that I've got lots of programs and data on this system is of no concern to them. Yeah - I've got backups. That's not the point. The point is that there's no guarantee that I could go through that gyration and come out successful. This is not the way to run a premier software company. I've been a PC user since there were PCs. But I am sorely tempted to start migrating to a Google world and get a Mac. It's not what I want to do, but man - this is very irritating. "The way they were..." If only. |
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| Subject: Re: Help! MS Office is hosed because of IE8 |
| Group: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general |
| Date: 9/3/2008 5:19:31 PM |
| From: Leonard Grey [Email Address Protection] |
You installed unfinished software on your computer. And you did not backup your system first. Did you see the movie "Death Wish"? --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est wordmuse wrote: > IE8 is giving me a lot of heartburn. I tried to install it on my Acer Vista > machine. The program gave it a good try and failed, saying that it couldn't > do the installation and that I should reboot in order to return things to the > way they were. > > Ahhh - the way they were. Has a nice ring to it doesn't it? > > Well, I did as instructed. But then I had a Word doc to write. I finished > and tried to save. Word crashed. The Save dialog looks all corrupted. > > So I tried Excel and Powerpoint. Same pattern. I tried Visio. No luck. I > tried my Open Office programs. No luck. I tried other kinds of programs, like > Notetab Pro. That works fine. I can save my files there. > > I tried exporting from Google Docs to a Word format. That works fine. (So I > can use Google to create Word documents! How ironic.) > > Thunderbird works fine. Paint Shop Pro, Real Draw and Xara work fine. > > I contacted Microsoft. They said it's an Acer problem and I should contact > them. I contacted Acer and they told me to wipe my system clean and start > over. Apparently the fact that I've got lots of programs and data on this > system is of no concern to them. Yeah - I've got backups. That's not the > point. The point is that there's no guarantee that I could go through that > gyration and come out successful. > > This is not the way to run a premier software company. I've been a PC user > since there were PCs. But I am sorely tempted to start migrating to a Google > world and get a Mac. It's not what I want to do, but man - this is very > irritating. > > "The way they were..." > > If only. |
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| Subject: Re: Help! MS Office is hosed because of IE8 |
| Group: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general |
| Date: 9/3/2008 5:18:44 PM |
| From: "rob^_^" [Email Address Protection] |
Hi Wordmuse, That is because Vista had placed checkpoints on all your folders so that it could roll back the installation. Once you reboot you should be fine. You should then be able to download your G-document and save it to your HD. Two lessons you should have learnt. I. backup before a major upgrade. 2. Close all other programs when advised to do so. Regards. "wordmuse" <wordmuse@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5811127F-EFA9-4380-B8F6-123B82C1E9E9@microsoft.com... > IE8 is giving me a lot of heartburn. I tried to install it on my Acer > Vista > machine. The program gave it a good try and failed, saying that it > couldn't > do the installation and that I should reboot in order to return things to > the > way they were. > > Ahhh - the way they were. Has a nice ring to it doesn't it? > > Well, I did as instructed. But then I had a Word doc to write. I finished > and tried to save. Word crashed. The Save dialog looks all corrupted. > > So I tried Excel and Powerpoint. Same pattern. I tried Visio. No luck. I > tried my Open Office programs. No luck. I tried other kinds of programs, > like > Notetab Pro. That works fine. I can save my files there. > > I tried exporting from Google Docs to a Word format. That works fine. (So > I > can use Google to create Word documents! How ironic.) > > Thunderbird works fine. Paint Shop Pro, Real Draw and Xara work fine. > > I contacted Microsoft. They said it's an Acer problem and I should contact > them. I contacted Acer and they told me to wipe my system clean and start > over. Apparently the fact that I've got lots of programs and data on this > system is of no concern to them. Yeah - I've got backups. That's not the > point. The point is that there's no guarantee that I could go through that > gyration and come out successful. > > This is not the way to run a premier software company. I've been a PC user > since there were PCs. But I am sorely tempted to start migrating to a > world and get a Mac. It's not what I want to do, but man - this is very > irritating. > > "The way they were..." > > If only. |
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| Subject: Re: Help! MS Office is hosed because of IE8 |
| Group: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general |
| Date: 9/3/2008 5:22:19 PM |
| From: "Rob Giordano \(Crash\)" [Email Address Protection] |
The real point is a short four letter word: BETA ... and the disclaimer not to install BETA software on a production machine. There are some other postings in this ng where people actually think IE8 BETA is an upgrade to IE7 ! Really, folks need to read download instructions before installing anything on their machines. Sorry for your loss. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Giordano Microsoft MVP Expression "wordmuse" <wordmuse@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5811127F-EFA9-4380-B8F6-123B82C1E9E9@microsoft.com... > IE8 is giving me a lot of heartburn. I tried to install it on my Acer > Vista > machine. The program gave it a good try and failed, saying that it > couldn't > do the installation and that I should reboot in order to return things to > the > way they were. > > Ahhh - the way they were. Has a nice ring to it doesn't it? > > Well, I did as instructed. But then I had a Word doc to write. I finished > and tried to save. Word crashed. The Save dialog looks all corrupted. > > So I tried Excel and Powerpoint. Same pattern. I tried Visio. No luck. I > tried my Open Office programs. No luck. I tried other kinds of programs, > like > Notetab Pro. That works fine. I can save my files there. > > I tried exporting from Google Docs to a Word format. That works fine. (So > I > can use Google to create Word documents! How ironic.) > > Thunderbird works fine. Paint Shop Pro, Real Draw and Xara work fine. > > I contacted Microsoft. They said it's an Acer problem and I should contact > them. I contacted Acer and they told me to wipe my system clean and start > over. Apparently the fact that I've got lots of programs and data on this > system is of no concern to them. Yeah - I've got backups. That's not the > point. The point is that there's no guarantee that I could go through that > gyration and come out successful. > > This is not the way to run a premier software company. I've been a PC user > since there were PCs. But I am sorely tempted to start migrating to a > world and get a Mac. It's not what I want to do, but man - this is very > irritating. > > "The way they were..." > > If only. |
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