When you boot up a Virtual Machine either via Parallels Desktop for Mac OS X or VMware’s Fusion after installing Office 2007 and possibly another Windows application you can receive this very frustrating message. In my case it was after I installed Microsoft’s Live Office plugin. Before I discovered the fix I used the snapshot feature in Parallels Desktop for Mac OS X to rollback my installation to an earlier snapshot. This is a very nice feature but as a result I lost quite a few software programs that I had installed and as a result I had to re-install that software.
That was a lesson learned on several fronts: one take snapshots more often, they don’t require a tremendous amount of disk space and you can save yourself a lot of work by taking a snapshot after each major software installation or similar milestone event resulting in major registry entries, etc.
The cause of this problem is as follows according to Microsoft:
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sparsham // July 5, 2008 at 10:39 pm |
I had this problem quite a while ago. Good post!