And that KB article shows how to remove all remnants of xl97. That's different
from using the control panel to add/remove programs.

steve wrote:

Yes perhaps going to a Windows XP group might work. I recognize that
people who do VBE programing generally have more access to their
computers (permissions) I was hopeing that a VB users group would have
come up against the problem. However I know this is an old version,
and as I say most developers have full access certainly at least to
their own computer. So I can see why others may not have had the
problem.

I have not tried the link to remove it all, partially because I solved
it, if I had not that might have been the next step. However as
mentioned, it works fine for the Administrator so I was under the
beleif that a reinstall would likely put it back the way it was.
Working perfectly for the Admin but not for the user. Admittedly that
is not always the case and perhaps permissions got screwed up somehow.
One never knows untill one tries.

Thanks.

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Dave Peterson