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I recently tried out the free Crystal Reports Viewer. I installed it on my work computer, but it didn't load (crashed on the EULA agreement of all places). After uninstalling the viewer, however, MS Excel 2003 does 3 things:

1. "An error occurred initializing the VBA libraries (1004)"
2. "Microsoft Excel has not been installed for the current user"
3. Excel then closes.

Did uninstalling the CR Viewer take some Microsoft DLLs with it? How do I get Excel working again?

I need to install Lotus NotesSQL Driver (current version is 8.5) onto a virtual machine running XP. Here's what's I've done so far:

1. I retrieved the file (CZOWFEN.zip) from the IBM website.
2. I ran the exe.
3. I then went to My Computer->Properties->Advanced->Environmental Settings->System Variables->Path and added "; c:\notessql" so the ODBC Administrator could find Notes.ini (why the setup file didn't do this in the first place, i don't know).
4. I opened up the ODBC Administrator and tried to add a new System DSN to a Lotus DB.

   "The setup routines for the Lotus Notes SQL Driver (*.nsf) ODBC driver could not be loaded due to system error code 126"

5. I redownloaded and reinstalled the driver (making sure I had the latest version 8.5). No luck.
6. I checked the registry. All the file paths appeared to be correct.
7. Per many, many similar cases on the internet, I tried several different variations of adding the various Lotus Notes folders to my PATH variables. Same error.

I've done this setup on 5 different machines now with no problem. The only difference here is that this machine is virtual. Ideas?