It looks like the folder it wants it missing. Can you verify that XLStart exists and if not create an empty folder? I find that these errors tell you exactly what is missing. _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of james.masters@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 3:37 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Post Patch MsiInstall Errors (correction) My apologies. We're running Win2k3, Office 2000 _____ From: James Masters Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 4:33 PM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: Post Patch MsiInstall Errors Hello all, On some of our MF XP FR3 (win2k sp4) boxes, after deploying MS patches (this time: MS05-050,051,and 052) Users are prompted with the Office Installation dialogs when launching Excel, and the following two errors are written to the Application log: Detection of product '{00020409-78E1-11D2-B60F-006097C998E7}', feature 'EXCELFiles', component '{EBB69321-AA40-11D1-955F-00A0C9082635}' failed. Detection of product '{00020409-78E1-11D2-B60F-006097C998E7}', feature 'EXCELFiles', component '{EBB69321-AA40-11D1-955F-00A0C9082635}' failed. The resource 'E:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\XLStart\' does not exist. Seems like a profile issue? We don't use mandatory or roaming profiles. Any ideas or insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, James Event Type: Warning Event Source: MsiInstaller Event Category: None Detection of product '{00020409-78E1-11D2-B60F-006097C998E7}', feature 'EXCELFiles', component '{EBB69321-AA40-11D1-955F-00A0C9082635}' failed. The resource 'E:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\XLStart\' does not exist. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Event Type: Warning Event Source: MsiInstaller Event Category: None Event ID: 1001 Date: 10/17/2005 Time: 2:57:49 PM User: CTXDTR\vmadmin Computer: N060CTXDTR02 Description: Detection of product '{00020409-78E1-11D2-B60F-006097C998E7}', feature 'EXCELFiles' failed during request for component '{CC29E96F-7BC2-11D1-A921-00A0C91E2AA2}' For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.