No Spellchecker

[MorseLady]

Not sure where to put my query as I have Works 8 and not Office per se.

After doing a clean reinstall of Windows XP Pro and reinstalling Works I find I have no spellchecker in Outlook Express although it is working in Works Word Processor yet I had it in Outlook Express with my old Windows install.

I have done lots of Windows installs most versions but this is the first time Spellchecker has been missing in Outlook Express.

How do I get my spellchecker please?

[NooNoo]

Hi Angie
need to do this bit of tweakingp The info is from a fellow MVP and can be trusted.

[Votan]

Hi Angie
need to do this bit of tweakingp The info is from a fellow MVP and can be trusted.

My problem is pretty much similar to this one.

I installed ie7 and then uninstalled it back to ie6. In this process I lost the speller-checker of outlook express. Every time I attempt to write a new message or to go online windows installer attempts to run and it attempts to install something from drive A (I don’t remember I installed anything from drive A on this machine) need to do this bit of tweakingp.

The installer freezes everything and clicking the button Cancel does not help. I have to use Task Manager to end the processes iexplore.exe and msimn.exe. Finally I unchecked Windows Installer in msconfig-services. Now I can go online after installer img.jpg flashes once. I can also write an email but when I click send I get the prompt saying the speller-checker was halted and it gives me the option to send the message anyway and I confirm.

I visiting Microsoft KB website and the link you provided in another similar situation, I could not make any progress. The files CSAPI3T1.DLL and MSPFR32.DLL are in their proof directory and the registry is OK. The file Mssp232.dll is missing.

Where I could find the missing file to download, would download and copying in the proof folder be the complete solution?

[NooNoo]

Hi Votan, did you manage to fix it?
if you have office this will sort it

or if you have works try this

[Votan]

No Noonoo, I have not been able to fix it yet. I have Office 2000 installed on XP home edition. It works flawlessly.

The speller-checker works well in Office. It does not work in outlook express. But the problem appears to be more severe than just the speller-checker.

I couldn’t run Frontpage. I tried to uninstall it, that was a forbidden task. I tried to install it atop the existing one. No installation was permitted. I tried to uninstall Office, that was another forbidden task. I could not install it atop the existing one either.

The installed applications work fine except for outlook sending mail and frontpage, but I cannot install anything or uninstall anything. I wonder if there is a fix around it other than to reinstall XP from scratch and hassle with the updates and reinstalling the applications. I will have to wait until Christmas break to have time to work it out that way.

So far no signs of viruses or malware.

[NooNoo]

What's the actual error message? Sounds like you uninstalled some other things while doing IE7...

Try reinstalling SP2 (if it was installed separately) and windows installer