Cheers for the reply

No its stand alone.

It goes through the process "please wait while microsoft configures......" and then comes out with "installation error file not found...

Every time I try to open an office application I get the "windows is preparing to instal" message . After cancelling it the application then opens.

I ran a search some time ago having the same...

Didn't have any problem updating the software when I could stay connected. (After I installed the fire wall)

Didn't have much luck with that but I then saw that the widows firewall was off and couldn't activate it again. I installed Comodo firewall and also carried out the following that I picked up...

Hi Guys,

I saw that this problem has been done before but after reading the details I was still unable to solve my problem, Perhaps some light could be shed.

Generic host process for win32...