How To Solve Windows Installer "Preparing to Install" Message ?

It is a common problem that whenever we try to open an Office application we come across a dialog box with the following message:

Preparing to install…. Please wait while Windows configures Office Edition

                                  

These messages may appear if any one (or all) of the following DWORD values in the registry is missing from the

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\LanguageResources key:

UILanguage

HelpLanguage

InstallLanguage

Solutions:

1.The problem has been solved and can be read in detail at the Microsoft Knowledge base

2.Or just try the following method, it can also remove the problem 

• Uninstall the Office application from the computer.
• Restart the computer and open IE to see if the problem is solved.
• If the message box doesn’t appear again, reinstall the Office. 

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OfficeIns - Disable MS Office Add-Ons

Microsoft Office is a very useful software tool used by many of Windows users. In fact a lot of Mac OS users also use Microsoft Office. There are many Add-On, provided by Microsoft and Sometimes 3rd party Add-Ons which can be integrated with MS office to make it even more useful.

Sometimes, due to a bug or compatibility problem of some particular third party MS Office Add-On, your MS office Applications like MS Excel, MS Word etc may start to hang, freeze, or sometimes even crash the applications. It sometimes becomes very difficult to troubleshoot and fix such problems.

Let me review a very useful tool called OfficeIns that helps you see all MS office Add ons on one screen and lets to enable/disable them so that you can troubleshoot the problem.

OfficeIns is a small but useful and effective tool by NirSoft for Managing all installed MS Office Add Ons from one window. This is very small in size (about 50 KB) and portable tool. You can carry it on a USB pen drive and plug it in any Computer which is having problems in MS office because of add-ons.

Start by disabling the add-ons which you most recently installed. In most of the cases, the most recent installs are the reason for in-stability of the software. When you disable suspicious add-ons, launch the MS office Application and observe whether you still have problem, this way you can pin-point the culprit add-ons and get rid of them.

Download OfficeIns

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Process Assassin : A Handy Tool To End Unresponsive Programs In Windows

Can you imagine how many hours we waste waiting on an unresponsive program to close. The Windows Task Manager can take time to close a program, and if it cannot close it, the only option is to restart the computer.

Process Assassin is a small piece of software designed to kill unresponsive programs immediately, without closing any of your other open programs.

Specific options are available for each kind of potential unresponsive offender. For basic Windows programs, there is a button to kill Explorer, Command Line, Task Manager, Kernel processes, Media Player and even Live Messenger.

Microsoft Office’s applications can be particularly annoying to close, especially for those of us who stack multiple, huge video files into our PowerPoint presentations. Besides the normal offenders (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), Process Assassin can kill Outlook, Onenote, Picture Manager, Access and even Publisher.

Web browsers crash probably more than any of the other programs on our computers. Process Assassin has a button for each of our favorites, including Chrome, FireFox and Internet Explorer.

The final tab in Process Assassin is simply called other applications, and is designed to kill a select few of the other programs we use, such as Pidgin, Nero, BitTorrent and Thunderbird.

For those programs not on the pre-defined lists, you can simply click the great big Assassinate button and choose the non-responsive program from the list of running programs.

The program downloads as a zip file, and once extracted, it runs straight from its folder. So, as long as you can easily reach the folder where you store it, you can terminate programs quickly.

Note: It is designed to work with Windows versions XP or later.

Download from here: Process Assassin

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Websites Opens Only In IE & Firefox - Doesn't Open In Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a fast new web browser from Google and I have been using it for past sometime. I have been facing this problem occasionally that it does not open some page at times and gives an error like :

The error says:

"DNS error – cannot fine server. Oops ! this link appears to be broken."

I found out that its not me alone, there are many people facing similar problem. This may happen when the site you are trying to open is up and running and opens in other web browsers like Firefox, IE, Opera etc.

I checked the DNS settings, but they seemed fine. But I came to know that this problem is because of a setting of Google Chrome called the DNS-Pre-fetching which will fetch the IP addresses of all the links on your current webpage so that when you click any of these links, it can save time on DNS resolution. In some rare instances, pre-fetching of DNS may fail, which cause this DNS error.

To fix this problem, you simply need to turn off this setting by following these 2 simple steps:

1. Click on the settings at the top right corner of the Google Chrome browser and click option.

2. Click on the “Under the Hood” and uncheck the option which says “Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance”, press close button.

After turning this feature off, your page load time will increase very slightly but it will not give you DNS errors if the site you are opening is up and running.

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