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Works: How to Correctly Re-register Shared Applications

Article ID: 150175

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

Microsoft Works 4.5 Standard Edition
Microsoft Works 4.5a
Microsoft Works 4.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Works 4.0a
Microsoft Works 2000 Standard Edition
Microsoft Works Suite 2000

This article was previously published under Q150175

SUMMARY

The shared components that ship with the versions of Microsoft Works listed at the beginning of this article include registration (.reg) files which are not needed to register or re-register any of the shared Works components such as Word Art or Draw.

If you merge these files into the Windows Registry by double-clicking them, the information in the .reg file will write incorrect information into the Registry, possibly producing error messages later when you run the shared component.

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If you are experiencing error messages when you start any of the shared components, you may have incorrectly registered these shared components.

Examples of the error messages include:

Cannot Insert Object

-or-

Application Not Available

If this happens, the components can usually be re-registered correctly by double-clicking on the executable (.exe) file for the component.

For example, double-clicking on Msdraw.exe should correctly re-register Microsoft Draw. If this does not work, you need to run Works Maintenance Setup, remove the Accessories; and then run Setup again to add them.

Note-it is an exception to this method of re-registering shared applications. To repair a Note-it Registry problem, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

150039 Works 95 Error: "Application Not Available"

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