In microsoft.public.money, pkrobin[at]hotmail.com wrote:

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OK. If you reinstalled an earlier version, you would want to have
the SP2 update on CD to avoid that window of susceptibility, tho a
NAT router would probably protect you during that period too.

In microsoft.public.money, pkrobin[at]hotmail.com wrote:

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Formatting the disk while reinstalling is a major task, because you
end up reinstalling everything. Reinstalling the OS without
formatting is actually not a major task. It also may not solve the
problem.

Hard drives are often on sale pretty cheap. Many come with a disk
cloning program. If you cloned the disk, you could try things that
seem more drastic with the assurance that you could just swap drives
to undo whatever happened since the cloning.

I was assuming a complete rebuild in that answer.

You actually asked about reinstalling the OS. The first thing I did was
reinstall SP2 and ie 6.0 and that made no change to the problem.

obviously this would solve the problem but as I mentioned it is a major
task and since we do not yet know what caused the problem there is no
reason to assume it would not eventually recur since I have my computer
exactly how I like it and would; upon rebuilding, likely add back most
of the programs I have installed now - perhaps re-triggering this same
problem. I do not have virus or spyware prblems on this computer.

In microsoft.public.money, pkrobin[at]hotmail.com wrote:

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Have you considered reinstalling the OS? Do you have the disk?

I am in Canada but as I said it makes no difference if I use the trial
version or the CD version both fail with same error. I have 3
computers at home. The trial version AND the CD version both work fine
on the other two. The trial version is US Deluxe the Canadian Version
is Canadian Standard. There is no meaningful difference between US
Standard and Canadian Standard I think. And of course Money 2005 trial
works fine.

I have tried what you suggest a number of times.

This is not an easily solved problem. Everything obvious I have
already tried... twice. I am looking for a unique perspective for a
unique problem.

Thanks anyway.

In microsoft.public.money, pkrobin[at]hotmail.com wrote:

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I suspect you are in Canada. The trial version is Deluxe, and it
would not be compatible with Canadian files.

Here are two more things you might try:

1. Try creating a new Administrator XP user, and install as that
user.

2. Try installing to a different folder/directory than the default.

I was pretty sure I had done this before but walked through it again
just in case. Same result. I cannot install the downloaded trial
version or my CD version. The error is identical and refers to some
components not being installed (anyone able to list all required
components so I can manually address them 1 by 1?). I uninstalled the
Money toolkit, edited the registry and all of that.. no difference. I
mentioned earlier that I can install Money 2005 no propblem so its all
a 2006 thing and makes no difference if CDN or US, Standard or deluxe.
And yes I do have my regional settings correct though it makes no
difference if I choose CDN or US.

I may try paying for full Microsoft support since I see no other way
out of this predicament... not sure... do they still bill if they can't
solve the problem?

Since the MSN Money Investment Toolbox also uses Money 2006, have you tried
removing that from Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs (if it is listed)?

Try going out to the MSN Money website: http://money.msn.com click Portfolio
at the top right and see if you can install the "Deluxe" version (the
Toolbox)

Since you mentioned this is the Canadian version, are Windows' Regional
Settings set to English (Canada)?

You might also try downloading the US Trial version from
http://microsoft.com/money just to see if it will install. If it will, then
try uninstalling it and re-install your Canadian version.

-Mark

<pkrobin[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Not having read your original post in detail, did you hack the registry to
eliminate all vestiges of Money? Your description of your abilities suggest
you'd be competent to do that.

pkrobin[at]hotmail.com wrote:

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Thankjs to the 4 of you, here is my collective response:

I gave up on Microsoft because it was a 90 minute plus call and I had a
small baby on my lap. They had offered nothing other than what was in
the Knowledge base. They were in the process of transferring me to
"full support" which I assumed was billable and at that point I was
thinking.. hmmm. $30 software.. $X per hour of support... maybe I'll
just go buy Quicken and import the QIF's... which is what I did but as
I mentioned I am not finding Quicken up to par for my specific purpose.

I'm pretty sure the only thing I installed around that time was Nero
7.0 but I removed a few other things just in case - mainly some eBay
auction management software.

I disabled System Restore a long time ago. I don't like stuff like
that though this looks like the one time in history I may have liked
it.

I could obviously format and rebuild I can do that in my sleep but this
machine is so tight I just hate to start over. I have no issues with
anything ever. I have several PC's to constantly rebuild and restore
but this one is my personal one and would take me hours if not days or
weeks to reinstall everything. I know there is some sort of file
settings transfer utility that I could look into if I have to go that
route.

Besides... who wants to rebuild a perfect machine because some $30
software won't run? Unfortunately I tried demos of at least 5 other
products and none are as good as Money for investment transaction
tracking which is all I care about...

Somneone sent me a link back to the Knowledge base... that applies only
to MS Money 2004 and I tried it already. As I mentioned before I have
no problem with MS Money 2005 and am considering simply moving to it
but don't really want to because I may be facing this same problem in a
year again then when I am forced to upgrade to 2007.

Thanks again.

Or try System Restore?

johnbusc[at]hotmail.com wrote:
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pk,

Before doing anything too drastic try reading the following link:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313374

Regards,
JB

pkrobin[at]hotmail.com wrote:
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In the office this is the point where we re-image the machine at a known
version of the operating system and start over from scratch.

The only quesitions that I would have are:

1) what programs did you install or de-install just before the first
failure?

2) why did you give up on your only hope for resolving the issue.

If I were you, I would either look at running it on another machine or
reload the operating system on this machine and start over.

Art McClinton

pkrobin[at]hotmail.com wrote:

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This problem is too complex for anyone to try to duplicate and it may be
unlikely that anyone has had a similar issue and can propose a direct
solution. If this happened to me I would give up and reinstall Windows and
all my application shoftware on a clean, completely formatted hard drive. A
complete reinstall is a pain but I do it routinely every year or so because
it makes my computers run perfectly. I never have weird problems like this
anymore since I started the clean reinstall method of annual maintainance.



Regards,

Bill Wood
Fountain Hills, AZ

Ok,

None of this makes any sense and I would classify this problem in the
highly advanced category.

I installed Money 2006 fine and it worked for a little over two weeks
then one day quit working and gave an error that I didn't write down.

A reinstall didn't work so I figured I'd just uninstall and
reinstall... made sense at the time.

Bottom line... I cannot reinstall this thing at all. I spent 2 hours
on the phone with Microsoft the other day (and countless hours on my
own) and they can't figure it out either... they were still
transferring me department to department when I gave up holding.

So here are the facts, I hope someone can help:

- When reinstalling I now get this error: "Setup was unable to install
some of the components needed to run Money. Try Installing Money
Again".
- If I go into the program directory and try and run the program (since
some of the files are installed) and click \MNYCOREFILES\MSMONEY.EXE I
get "Unable to initialize a required Money Component. Please reinstall
Money from your original Product Disks", after which if I hit "OK" I
get "Windows cannot find c:\program files\microsoft money
2006\MNYCoreFiles\checksku.exe"... this file does not exist on my
machine and the version available for download from microsoft is from
2002 or 2003 and not compatible.

- I have reinstalled IE6.0 as well as the Microsoft Data Access
components and .NET Framework 1.1 (just in case). - no change.
- I have reinstalled SP2 - No Change.
- I have tried setting up a new administrative user - no change
- I have tried alternative install locations (no network drives)
- My CD installs fine on other computers in my home

- I have no viruses, no spyware, nothing like that.
- I made no major changes to my computer around the time money quit
working (I wasn't going into it every single day so hard to pinpont an
exact date of failure so I actually uninstalled everything I may have
added around that time).
- When I uninstalled Money I followed all the Knowledge base articles
and again with Microsoft Support, this included deleting all registry
keys, the Money install directory, my personal Money directory, etc.
- Safe mode, or clean boot make no difference.
- I do not run Norton anything and I disabled all virus software when
trying to reinstall.
- Money 2005 installs and uninstalls fine ?!?
- I have the Money 2006 CD which doesn't work nor does the downloaded
version. Mine is the Canadian version which is the same as the US
standard version. Neither the US Standard demo nor my Canadian CD work
and the error is the same.
- I spent alot of time inputting my stock transactions for a few years
so really want to get this back. I alrady bought Quicken after this
problem started and do not find it acceptable for my purposes.
- I will answer any questions but please read this carefully before
asking. I have read everything in the Microsoft Knowledge Base. I
have done all the obvious stuff. I have no other problems with my
computer or with any other product including all my Microsoft products.

Thanks for your help.