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How I Solved: Visual Basic Editor could not be loaded. There may not be enough free memory to load the libraries or files may have been deleted or moved from their originally installed locations
An old Macintosh OS 8 / MacOS9 computer, running Microsoft Word 98, recently gave this error message
Visual Basic Editor could not be loaded. There may not be enough free memory to load the libraries or files may have been deleted or moved from their originally installed locations.
I never have this problem on my main computer, because I run OpenOffice. But some people have to use MS Office, and it was bad when it said this every time Microsoft Word was opened.
I tried to uninstall MS Office and then reinstall, but that didn't help. I tried uninstalling, deleting the program folder, and reinstalling. That didn't help. I even tried uninstalling, running MS Office directly off the CD, and reinstalling. Even that didn't help!
Finally, I found the solution, which is called "Method 1: The PPC Registration Database Is Missing or Damaged"
The explanation is:
The PPC Registration Database (located in the Preferences folder) is required in order for Word to start. To reinstall the PPC Registration Database file, First Run Install (FRI) must be invoked. To do that, you must delete a few extension files. All files that are deleted in the following steps are then reinstalled during FRI.
The steps are:
1. Quit all open programs.
2. Open the Extensions folder, which is in the System folder, located on the hard disk drive.
3. Select each of the following four extensions. For each extension, click Move to the Trash on the File menu: • Microsoft Component Library • Microsoft OLE Automation • Microsoft OLE Library • Microsoft Structured Storage
4. Open the Preferences folder, which is in the System folder. Select each of the following two files. For each file, click Move to the Trash on the File menu: • Embedding Preferences • PPC Registration Database
5. Close all folders, and start one of the Office 98 programs. This automatically invokes the First Run Install (FRI) feature, because of the missing extensions. The FRI installation inserts a fresh copy of the removed, or damaged, files. It also replaces any earlier versions of the files that were installed or created during the initial FRI installation. This only takes a moment to complete.
In other words:
- Close all programs
- Delete Harddisk / System Folder / Microsoft Component Library
- Delete Harddisk / System Folder / Microsoft OLE Automation
- Delete Harddisk / System Folder / Microsoft OLE Library
- Delete Harddisk / System Folder / Microsoft Structured Storage
- Delete Harddisk / Preferences / Embedding Preferences
- Delete Harddisk / Preferences / PPC Registration Database
- Close all windows
- Run Microsoft Word!
And now it works!
12:37 Posted by Dan tdaxp in Software, Vanity | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this