Strange behaviour when accessing Excel VBA after installing VB 2005 Express edition

Hi,

I recently installed VB2005 Express Edition to try to learn the new features of VB under the .net environment. The installation and registration went like a charm and the program is working as I expect.

However, I am doing a lot of development work using VBA running under Microsoft Excel and since I installed VB2005, whenever I access the VBA IDE in Excel, I get a message box telling me that VB2005 is trying to install something. At first, this installation stopped, saying that it could not find the vbsetup.msi file. After providing it with the location of this file, it kept going with its alleged installation and after a minute or two, the VBA IDE appeared. As it should.

But if I exit from Excel and then reload Excel again and access VBA again, I get the same message "Please wait while VB2005 ..." or something like that.

Is there any way to get rid of this annoyance

Thank you

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Strange behaviour when accessing Excel VBA after installing VB 2005 Express edition

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FransHals,

are you still experiencing problems
zenguitar
I had exactly the same problem when opening Outlook 2003.

Brian's suggestion also worked for this one.

Peter
Leif Olofsson
I get this problem when I run Word or Excel, but not any other Office components

But I cannot get Brian's suggestion to work. There is no 'Import and Export Settings' under Tools - Options in VB 2005. Do I have to change some settings to see it

If I uninstall VB 2005 the problem goes away but that is not much use.
ehuanghai
Nasyua:

Thanks for the "repair" tip. I had the same problem and repairing Office resolved the issue.
polocar
Hi Nasyua,
Thanks for the info.
I used Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Office 2003 -> Change/Repair.
Problem Solved !
TX
Up until about 10 minutes ago, I had a similar problem. (Not quite identical as I got the message without loading the IDE, however my auto-open does lots of weird things including accessing the VBE.)

On the installation CD I re-read ExpressKnownIssues.htm. It contains the following

1.4 Using Windows Roaming Profiles may cause first time launch message box to show on each startup.

When any product in the Visual Studio 2005 family of products is used with Windows Roaming Profiles, the first time launch message that says "Visual Studio 2005 is configuring the environment for first time use. This might take a few minutes." might appear on every session startup. This might cause unnecessary slowdowns in startup performance.

To resolve this issue

Click Tools > Options... Select "Import and Export Settings", and change the path under "Automatically save my settings to this file:" to a path that is NOT under the "My Documents" directory.

I don't think I use Roaming Profiles (I'm an XP Home user) and the problem happens in Excel 2003 rather Visual Studio, but it looked like my problem so I gave the suggested resolution a go. Problem solved.

(I spent a long time trying to resolve this and one of my biggest blind alleys was looking under "Error 1706", so I'm adding this sentence to help anyone else searching for that.)

Hoping this works for you as well,

Brian.
Giarknot
Nasyua

Same problem here with Excel XP (2002). Thanks for the fix that sorted it!

V
Nemanja
I found the file vbsetup.msi but still got the message "Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition - ENU" when I start Word or Excel. I wanted to get re-acquainted with VB but this problem means that I have had to uninstall it to do my everyday work. My setup is XP Home with Office 2003. If anyone has a solution I would love to hear it.
dlovat
I get a similar message everytime I open Excel, but mine says it's trying to configure Visual J# 2005 Express Edition - ENU. Here are the complete messages:

"Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Visual J# 2005 Express Edition - ENU"

"The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable."

"Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package 'vjssetup.msi' in the box below."

Needless to say, I don't have the installation package vjssetup.msi in my system.
Andy Green
Hi, Rioch Mulhall.

I am using Office2000, and the same problem occurred.

To solve this problem, "Repairing Office" was executed.

Thereafter, a similar problem doesn't occur.
Don Breazeal
Hi, Franshals.

Please try this solution when you needs "vbsetup.msi".

This file is in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition - ENU\vbsetup.msi".

(Please set "ENU" to your country. )

I solved by this solution.

I wish this problem to solve :)

Thank you.
Strange behaviour when accessing Excel VBA after installing VB 2005 Express edition

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