PCWorks: Re: SKU112.CAB and Outlook Express

Have I been deleting files? That's all I do every chance I
get is delete 
files. Seriously, I never installed Office 2003 nor have I
had a demo run, I 
only use 2000; but reinstalling Word and Excel 2000 fixed
it. I'm told by a 
member of the group that sku112.cab has something to do with
the 
installation of Excel. What it has to do and how it has to
do I don't know. 
I know the problem is fixed and I still can't find that
file and google has 
many links on it (mostly questions and complaints as I can
see and my 
patience wears thin when digging into details). And what the
problem I had 
before reinstalling (I suppose Excel) has to do with Outlook
Express beats 
all.

Ben and Babs, your links look interesting. Maybe someday
 An
aside: We 
should note that in PCWorks, lurking behind all our stated
problems and 
solutions, are people who are quiet and yet very up on
technical matters. 
For example, here's Herb who sent me this solution:

1. Click on start==>run==>type "excel /s"
without quotations and click ok.



2. Once Excel is up in safe mode with the error message in
front, hold down 
ctrl+Alt+Delete keys on your keyboard to bring the task
manager up.



3. Click on the processes tab==>look for msiexec.exe
(only the one next to 
your user name), click on it and end the process.



4. Excel should be running without an error message
now==>close Excel in 
safe mode==>reopen it one more time in safe mode to check
if it is opening 
with no error message.



5. Close Excel /s and open Excel normally, it should work
fine.

Looks interesting and to me over my head. I haven't tried
it yet and I can 
follow directions; next time Outlook Express is looking for
sku112.cab, I'll 
give it a "run" - I can always go back to
reinstalling Excel which I know 
works. Btw, through all this, Word and Excel are never
giving me trouble. So 
I'm reinstalling something that works to make something
that has nothing to 
do with what works .... work (how else could I say that?).
--- Harold

>
> Hi Harold,
>
> Did you have a demo of word or office 2003 installed on
your computer when
> you got it?  Did you uninstall it?  This is a cab file
from  Office 
> Standard
> 2003 (Retail) .  I don't know why it keeps coming up
especially in Outlook
> Express but who knows what MS has done.
>
> Have you been deleting files again?  Sometimes
preinstalled stuff is in a
> folder called MSO cache.  In any case, you could try
uninstalling 
> everything
> that has to do with office, both your word and excel
installations and
> reinstalling them.  Look in add/remove programs and
uninstall anything 
> that
> mentions office or any on the applications associated
with it.
>
> Here's the Knowledge base article
> http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?scid=kb;
en-us;896866 .
>
> I don't have that particular version of Office and
each version of Office
> 2003 has a different skuXXX.cab file.  Maybe someone on
the list has it.
> Although I'm not sure if you have it, it just
wouldn't ask you for another
> file when it found that one.
>
> Ben Moore
>
> I came up with this:
> http://s
upport.microsoft.com/kb/884824/en-us
> Babs

Original Problem
> When opening Outlook Express, it opens, but followed by
what looks like a
> search for a file called "SKU112.CAB" ...
with some mention of Microsoft
> Office 2003, which I don't have..
>
> Now I do have MS Offce 2000 but only use the Word and
Excel.CD when 
> installing
> them. Putting the CD in the drive didn't help. And
that search window is 
> very
> persistent; it almost won't give up searching for
sku112.cab and I don't 
> have
> it. To stop that sku112.cab "search" I have
to hit cancel and where it 
> shows
> up, the x button; a few times and eventually it stops
and OE does its job.
>
> Googling sku112.cab has many links but no clear site
where I can download
> sku112.cab. And if I had the file, I wouldn't know
where to put it. Anyone
> have any information on this? ... Harold
>
> Problem Solved ... I reinstalled MS Office 2000 (just
Word and Excel was
> enough) ... and OE no longer asks for
"sku112.cab" ... I wonder what the
> relationship is or even what that file is. Doing a
search in my system 
> shows
> no such file exists ... Harold
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