sw 2003 installation problem
sw 2003 installation problem
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Hi people!, I've installed sw 2003 in win xp and when I try to execute the program this message appears: "Failed to initialize Visual Basic for Apps, equations and macros will not work", could someone help me?, it`s been a pain since 3 months ago and I can`t fix it. I have excel installed and also the win XP service pack 1 and nothing works...
Thank you
Piper
Thank you
Piper






RE: sw 2003 installation problem
Mr. Pickles
RE: sw 2003 installation problem
Mr. Pickles
RE: sw 2003 installation problem
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

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Problems... I tried the clean install, disabled the AV when installing, erased all previous installs and files and I got the same error... I swear to kiss the one with the solution to this nightmare.
Thanks anyway
Piper
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Again, what version of Excel are you installing?
Mr. Pickles
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Regards
RE: sw 2003 installation problem
Regards.
RE: sw 2003 installation problem
Neither of you specified which XP...XP Pro, or XP home?
I have XP Pro with SW01+ and SW03 installed. My MS Office is 2000 SP3, and I haven't had a problem with either installing it or running it. If you have followed the FAQ above when trying to reinstall it and that didn't work. Then it's time for a more drastic Regclean. You will have to follow the FAQ up to where it starts cleaning out the registery. Once you are in the Registery editor. Start in the first folder and run a search for "Solidworks" and delete everything pertaining to SW. If your not sure don't remove it, just keep going.
IMPORTANT: YOU HAVE TO BE COMFORTABLE IN IN CHANGING THE REGISTERY, BECAUSE IT COULD CAUSE PROBLEMS WITH YOUR OS IF YOU REMOVE THE WRONG DATA
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

3DVision Technologies
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FAQ731-376
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Regards,
Homero
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However I might add that on my home system I run SW2003 with Office/Excel 97 and is works fine.
I have seen the same problem once (two weeks ago) on a single machine and it appeared to relate the order in which we had loaded SW and (in this case) SmarTeam. We blew it all away and reloaded and all is now well.
One other cause of similar error messages is if you are accessing Office over a network. It needs to be installed locally on your machine. That info' was buried somewhere in the release notes way back and I have not heard of any changes to that status. BTW: If this is the problem, I seem to recall you have to blow away SW before you load Office locally, then reload SW, otherwise the reg entries for still look for the network version for SW.
Once again, I suggest you request your VAR to get his/her rear end over to your site and fix your problem - that's what you are paying your annual support fee for!
RE: sw 2003 installation problem
RE: sw 2003 installation problem
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
When in doubt, always check the help
RE: sw 2003 installation problem
This might be to a bit hard if you don't know PC well, but I will try to make it straight forward.
1. Go to your user profile. The default is "C:\Documents and Settings\{your login name}"
2. Right click on "Application Data" and select "Properties"
3. Click "Security" tab and find your name addition to "Administrators" and "SYSTEM"
4. Click on your name and see if you have "Full Control"
If you can't find your name or you don't have "Full Control", that could be the cause.
You need to have administration privilege to fix this. If you don't, ask your IT or administrator.
Easiest way to make sure is create a new user profile. Logon with the new user name and see if the problem is fixed. If so, the problem was caused by the incorrect privilege of your user profile. I believe you want to keep all environment you had, so logon as administrator and assign you to "Application Data" or give "Full Control" to you. There might be other folders that are screwed up too. Go to "C:\Documents and Settings" and right click on your name and select "Properties" Then, you can assign "Full Control" to all folders under your user profile.
If you don't care about your old profile, just start working with the new logon name. It's safest way to go.
If this works, give me a pink star instead of kiss
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Timelord
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It is not in the control panel at all, I was remembering all wrong. Go to the SolidWorks program files and right click on the executable for SW. In the dialog box that pops up, there is a compatability tab where you can tell XP to run in NT or 2000 compatability mode. This fixed all my problems running under XP.
Timelord
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I have the same problem that you. Do you find the solution?
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Seems like this is a common issue and must have a simple (but obviously elusive) answer. One of you must be paying annual service contract surely? (You ALL should!) Go and grab you VAR by the short and curlies and don't let go till he explains the problem and provides a fix. Then for goodness sake publish it for everyone. Our VAR would never let this situation go like this. You can bet your life someone at SolidWorks knows what the issue is and your VAR can call them if they need to.
3/4 of all the Spam produced goes to Hawaii - shame that's not true of SPAM also.......
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Did any of you who have the problem tried what I suggested earlier? Again, an easiest way to make sure is create a new user profile ( a new logon account) and see if the problem is gone. If so, follow my instruction to fix.
RE: sw 2003 installation problem
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<Easy way if you don't know about PC>
1. Right click on "My Computer" and select "manage".
2. Scroll down to "Local Users and Groups" and expand by clicking "+".
3. Right click on "Users" and select "New User..."
4. Create a new user profile. The new user can belong to "Group" of "Users" or you can assign "Administrators". Even "Users" will have proper privilege for the profile folder.
5. Log off and log back in by the new user and see if you still have the problem. If the PC is domain PC, select local PC when you login. The user account you created is valid only for your local, not for domain. If you are network administrator, you can create domain account. If your PC is standalone, just login.
<Shortcut if you know about PC>
The root problem is that some program on your PC, or your operation will change the privilege of your user profile. The location is, typically "C:\Documents and Settings\[your login name]" and especially, a folder underneath [your login name], "Application Data" needs "Full Control".
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Apparently, there is a problem with the VBA files. A friend of mine make me this suggestion, and it worked, though it may be a far more big problem for some of you.
*Don`t do this unless it is absolutely critical for you to be able to run SW*
1.Reinstall Windows XP (hahaha! I'm crazy)
2.Install Office 2000 (the version before Office XP)
3.Install SolidWorks. It should run by now.
4.Install the Office XP as an upgrade.
If you ask me, I don't really know how this works, but if your computer has not been tweaked or has tons of erratic files and/or programs that you don't what to have to reinstall, don't do this. Hope this works at least for somebody.
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Apparently, SW macro needs to have a right privilege to "C:\Documents and Settings\[your login name]\Application Data", but somehow, the permission is changed. Then, you get the error.
You didn't have to re-install OS, but only create a new login account. If you re-install, you re-create a new login account anyway and the problem is fixed.
As I posted earlier, this is getting into an area that you don't have to deal with typically. So, just try to create a new login account as I instructed last time and see if the problem is fixed.
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RE: sw 2003 installation problem
I am sorry to hear that it still doesn't work, but a question for you. Have you ever successfully executed a macro from SW without having the error, "Failed to initialize Visual Basic for Apps, equations and macros will not work"? If not, my suggested way won't help.
I got a macro for multiple printing and the macro was trying to create an initial file under "C:\", but I didn't have a permission. So IT manipulated my privilege and since then, all macros from SW stooped working and kept getting the error message. I tried to run a macro from Excel and it worked. Another strange thing happening was I couldn't delete a file I created on Desktop. This is why I started looking permission of my user profile.
As I described before, my permission for "Application Data" was gone and since IT gave me full permission to my user profile becasue of the trouble, I could add "Full Control" to the folder and the problem was gone. I couldn't believe and I took the permission away to made sure if that was the cause. Sure, I got the error message. I am not still sure how my permission to the folder was gone, but I didn't have to re-install SW at all.
I bet there are some other causes for this problem, but I am suggesting to check the permission for "Application Data" based on my experience, especially the error message was same.
RE: sw 2003 installation problem
the solution is quiet easy, search "Mso9intl.dll" on your Solidworks CDs, and copy this file into your Solidworks installation folder.That's it!!!
I just used this way to solve this problem this morning.
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I don't have the problem any more, but I am just curios.
"Mso9intl.dll" is not in my SolidWorks folder, but in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\1033". It's "Microsoft Office 2000 component", file version 9.0.0.2720.
I don't have SolidWorks CD because IT controls all PCs and softwares here at my work, so I can't confirm if the DLL is on SolidWorks CD. Wasn't it on MS Office CD? How did you decide to try it?
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You are right, basically, this file is a DLL file for MS Office program.
I am runing Windows2000, MS OfficeXP and Solidworks 2004 on my computer. But before I copied this file from Solidworks CD, I could not find this file on my computer.
Last night, I installed, uninstalled and reinsatlled so many times, but the problem was still there. This morning, I runned a monitor program, "Filemon", that is a powerful tool for seeing how applications use the files and DLLs. So, after I read the log file, I found before the problem happens, the last file that Solidworks searched is "Mso9intl.dll". This is my reason.
I think you can find this file on MS Office CD.
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us...
Just for your information.
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"the solution is quiet easy, search "Mso9intl.dll" on your Solidworks CDs, and copy this file into your Solidworks installation folder.That's it!!!"
Could you be more specific about the "installation folder?"
Could you specify the folder directory? i.e. (C:\Program Files\SolidWorks) ??
Thank you very much,
RE: sw 2003 installation problem
RE: sw 2003 installation problem
The "installation folder" is the floder in which you intall the SolidWorks.
for example, the default floder for insatlling SolidWorks is "C:\Program Files\SolidWorks", so, you just copy the file "Mso9intl.dll" into "C:\Program Files\SolidWorks".
If you cannot find "Mso9intl.dll" in Solidworks CD, you can try to find it on Microsoft Office CD.
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