I am running Word 2000 (9.0269 SP-3) on WinXP Pro/SP2.

When I open any existing document I get this message:

"This document could not be registered. It will not be
possible to create links from other documents to this
document."

I have checked for Blaster and viruses and spyware any other malware
and my system is clean.

I can not be certain about it but I think I started to have this
problem after installing SP2 recently.

What is causing this and how can I prevent it?


William

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Am asking again because this is a very annoying message and it is so
distracting.

WM,

I found all kinds of things about this on discussions -- and no one
every bothered to say how they finally fixed it! I had this going on
for over a week. The fix finally was to re-install SP2. That was
after trying everything else (and actually I re-installed SP2 after I
had uninstalled and reinstalled all of my office programs.)

You're misexec.exe is probably corrupted. Ignore any notes on trying
to uncorrupt/fix it. I renamed it and reinstalled SP2 and things are
working swimmingly now.

If you haven't already tried reinstalling SP2 - do that before anything
else.

pf

WM wrote:
I am running Word 2000 (9.0269 SP-3) on WinXP Pro/SP2.

When I open any existing document I get this message:

"This document could not be registered. It will not be
possible to create links from other documents to this
document."

I have checked for Blaster and viruses and spyware any other malware
and my system is clean.

I can not be certain about it but I think I started to have this
problem after installing SP2 recently.

What is causing this and how can I prevent it?


William

=======

Am asking again because this is a very annoying message and it is so
distracting.

On 30 Jan 2006, pf wrote:

WM,

I found all kinds of things about this on discussions -- and no
one every bothered to say how they finally fixed it! I had this
going on for over a week. The fix finally was to re-install
SP2. That was after trying everything else (and actually I
re-installed SP2 after I had uninstalled and reinstalled all of
my office programs.)

You're misexec.exe is probably corrupted. Ignore any notes on
trying to uncorrupt/fix it. I renamed it and reinstalled SP2
and things are working swimmingly now.

If you haven't already tried reinstalling SP2 - do that before
anything else.


FIRSTLY, I guess that re-applying SP2 means applying all the hotfixes
again which came after SP2. Is that right?

SECONDLY, maybe I can get a copy of misexec.exe and use that?

On my C drive I have got MSIEXEC.EXE at these locations:

63KB 29AUG02 C:\WINDOWS\$MSI31Uninstall_KB893803$\
76KB 04AUG04 C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\
77KB 21MAR05 C:\WINDOWS\system32\
77KB 21MAR05 C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\

Does anyone know which is the one in use and which one I should try?



pf

WM wrote:
I am running Word 2000 (9.0269 SP-3) on WinXP Pro/SP2.

When I open any existing document I get this message:

"This document could not be registered. It will not be
possible to create links from other documents to this
document."

I have checked for Blaster and viruses and spyware any other
malware and my system is clean.

I can not be certain about it but I think I started to have
this problem after installing SP2 recently.

What is causing this and how can I prevent it?