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"Odd Pop-Up Occurence"

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Canada Girl 3340 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Car Show Celebrity"	11-03-05, 09:58 PM (EST)
"Odd Pop-Up Occurence"
I returned home after two weeks yesterday and found that every time I log onto any of the SB messages boards I get a pop up telling me that Windows 2000 is preparing to install, with the timer at the bottom of the pop up moving along. I close the window and another pops up, which I close as well. I'm using Windows XP on my computer and have never seen anything like this before. It's not happening with other websites I go (so far) to so I thought I'd bring it to the help forum to see if anyone had any advice.
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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID

RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence frisky 11-04-05 1

   RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence FSUGUY 11-05-05 2

RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence Canada Girl 11-07-05 3

   RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence weltek 11-07-05 4

       RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence frisky 11-07-05 5

Not to me universityofkentuckyrocks 11-07-05 6

RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence brvnkrz 11-07-05 7

   NO HELP BOARD FSUGUY 11-08-05 8

RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence SurvivorBlows 11-09-05 9

   RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence brvnkrz 11-09-05 10

   RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence frisky 11-09-05 11

RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence zombiebaby 11-12-05 12

Here's what worked for me... IceCat 11-12-05 13

   RE: Here's what worked for me... frisky 11-16-05 14

   RE: Here's what worked for me... Wallflower66 11-26-05 15

   RE: Here's what worked for me... mysticwolf 11-26-05 16

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frisky 11684 desperate attention whore postings
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11-04-05, 10:56 AM (EST)

1. "RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence"

The same thing is happening to me and it's driving me crrrraaaaazzzaaaaayyyy!

I was going to post about it yesterday, but it kept happening over and over and I got fed up and logged out.
Like you, CG, it's only happening with my beloved SB.

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FSUGUY 447 desperate attention whore postings
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11-05-05, 11:18 AM (EST)

2. "RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence"

XP here too....
MAKE IT STOP!!!

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Canada Girl 3340 desperate attention whore postings
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11-07-05, 03:39 PM (EST)

3. "RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence"

This is getting out of control and making me very nervous about visiting SB. It's been happening for a week now.

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weltek 16933 desperate attention whore postings
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11-07-05, 04:01 PM (EST)

4. "RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence"

Since you haven't gotten a response here, you should email Webby. Sounds like no-good-nastiness to me.

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frisky 11684 desperate attention whore postings
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11-07-05, 04:16 PM (EST)

5. "RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence"

The worst of it all is that it's keeping me away from the boards.
It's happening with this site on both my work computer and my home computer. I don't share files between the two pooters.
I'm searching the Microsoft knowledge base in case it's an XP thing.

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universityofkentuckyrocks 2572 desperate attention whore postings
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11-07-05, 07:27 PM (EST)

6. "Not to me"

I have XP and haven't seen anything like that.

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brvnkrz 20491 desperate attention whore postings
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11-07-05, 07:34 PM (EST)

7. "RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence"

I'm getting it too. It just started happening a week or two ago. I have on two firewalls and three different pop-up blockers and it makes it through them all. I just close it, wait for the next one, close it and then all seems to operate fine. It happens everytime I shut down or go on standby. I too am on XP both at work and at home.

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FSUGUY 447 desperate attention whore postings
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11-08-05, 11:24 PM (EST)

8. "NO HELP BOARD"

people have been posting for sometime now.... no response....

Same thing happened last time I had problems....

do mods/admins even look here?
STOP ALL POP UPS!!!

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SurvivorBlows 15230 desperate attention whore postings
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11-09-05, 00:51 AM (EST)

9. "RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence"

Hi folks, I've checked into this and have so far been unable to reproduce the behavior you are describing.
It's possible the issue might be geography-specific. I'm assuming Canada Girl is accessing the site from Canada -- frisky, FSUGUY and brvnkrz, what countries are you in? Also, is the install dialog for Microsoft Office or for Microsoft Windows? And what version of Microsoft Office do you have installed on your systems?
Thanks,
SB

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brvnkrz 20491 desperate attention whore postings
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11-09-05, 06:56 AM (EST)

10. "RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence"

Frisky is also Canada and I'm in California. I have Microsoft Office 2003. As far as install dialog, I don't know the answer to that one.
Thank You

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frisky 11684 desperate attention whore postings
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11-09-05, 10:25 AM (EST)

11. "RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence"

I am Canadian. *raises beer mug*
I'm using MS Office 2000.
I wrote down the message verbatim. Here's what I'm getting:
The box is titled "Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional" and the text says "The feature you are trying to use is on a CD-ROM or other removeable disk that is not available. Insert the "Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional" disk and click OK."
When I hit "cancel," I get "Error 1706. No valid source could be found for product Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional. The Windows installer cannot continue." I get this same message if I hit the little "x" up there in the corner of the pop-up.
When I hit the "OK" button on this message, I get the installer again. After a couple of tries, my browser shuts down.
The good news is that I can put the IE window on top of this nasty popup and still wander about on the boards, but this is worrisome.
So, I checked out the Microsoft site for this Error 1706, and I got this page, among others. It says:
You may experience this problem if all of the following conditions are true: • Your computer is running Microsoft Windows 2000.
• Office 2000 is installed on your computer.
• You used a CD to install Office.
• You did not start any of the Office programs yet.
• You start a third-party program that uses Mscomctl.ocx.
Does that last thingie apply to RTVW?

*headbutt*

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zombiebaby 7355 desperate attention whore postings
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11-12-05, 07:35 PM (EST)

12. "RE: Odd Pop-Up Occurence"

Happening to me too! Only on this site! I just have to keep hitting cancel.
I am in NY if that helps and I am using Windows XP.

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IceCat 17313 desperate attention whore postings
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11-12-05, 09:31 PM (EST)

13. "Here's what worked for me..."

Follow the instructions located on this page:
http://www.activsoftware.com/support/kb/index.cfm/fuseaction/single/id/1018

Start by launching Control Panel from the Start Menu or My Computer icon.
Select "Add or Remove Programs" and scroll to "Microsoft Office 2000".
Select "Microsoft Office 2000" and click the "Change" button.
This launches the Microsoft Office 2000 Maintenance Mode Window.
Select "Add or Remove Features" and expand "Office Tools".
Select the arrow next to HTML Source Editing and select the "Not Available" option.
Press the "Update Now" button at the bottom left to complete the process.
The installer will prompt that Office 2000 has been configured successfully.

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frisky 11684 desperate attention whore postings
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11-16-05, 01:34 PM (EST)

14. "RE: Here's what worked for me..."

*tackles Icecat*
*puts him in headlock*
*lick* *lick *lick* *playbite* *lick* *lick* *smooch*

It worked. Thank you.

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Wallflower66 2394 desperate attention whore postings
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11-26-05, 00:32 AM (EST)

15. "RE: Here's what worked for me..."

Yes, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!!

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mysticwolf 10692 desperate attention whore postings
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11-26-05, 02:08 AM (EST)

16. "RE: Here's what worked for me..."

FWIW, I was experiencing the same thing, but it was Frontpage that kept wanting to load. I tried the Office fix offered, but that didn't do it. Followed the same directions - only going into Office Tools under Frontpage and turning off HTML editing there. It took care of the problem. Thank you Icey!

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