Hello,

after installing Office 2003 on my windows XP Profesisonal system,
when starting Visual Studio .net 2003, the Windows installer pooped in
and wanted to configure Visio. Since I was not in my office then, I
did not have the Visio Cd avaiable and eventually removed grudgingly
Visio from my notebook.

Then, when starting VS, the Windows installer wanted to configure the
MSDN library. I gave up...

Some days later, back in office, I searched the web for information
and learned that several people experineced similar problems. The
solutions proposed included e.g. removing .../Microsoft
Shared/Ofice10/mso.dll or manually registering one or the other dll.
These approaches changed the picture: Now when starting VS, for a very
short time there was a small dialog "preparing setup" and then VS
closed.

I tried a "repair" from the VS CD setup, but this did not help.

Finally, I downloaded the "Windows Install Clean Up" tool from MS and
cleaned the VS installation. Then I performed a new installation
"which included a complete deinstallation of the existing VS).
This worked; problem seems to be solved!  :-)

I wanted ton share this experience with the community, because I think
it might help others. If somebody would be able to explain this odd
behaviour I really would appreciate this...!

Regards,
Matthias