"rustybatz" wrote in message
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If you can't explain why it would suddenly stop working, I can't see any
other explanation than microsoft put something in or took something out of
vista to deny access to this program.

I never said it wasn't due to a Microsoft update. It very well could have
been. I took issue with your reason for that update. The purpose of the
update was not to disable Office XP and extract money from you. The purpose
was to address an issue in Vista and a side-effect may have been to cause
problems with an applucation that's not intended to run on Vista in the first
place. I don't understand why this would bother you. Microsoft publishes
system requirements for all of its software and when you willfully ignore the
requirements, the results are on your own head.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]