XL: "Unable to read file" Error Opening the Add-Ins Dialog BoxID: Q193539
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When you try to open the Add-Ins dialog box, you may receive the following error message:
The error message only appears the first time that you try open the Add-Ins dialog box after you start Microsoft Excel. It will not occur again until you close and reopen Excel.Unable to read file.
This problem may occur when the following conditions are true:
To resolve this problem, follow these steps:
This behavior is by design of the programs listed at the beginning of this article.
The Setup program creates Mscreate.dir (a 0-byte hidden file) in each
folder that Setup creates to indicate that the folder was created by
Setup.
When you run Setup in maintenance mode and remove a component or click
Remove All, Setup uses this file to determine whether an empty folder can
be removed. If an empty folder does not contain this file, when you run
Setup in maintenance mode, Setup will not remove this folder.
Additional query words: XL97 XL7 addins
Keywords : kberrmsg kbdta
Version : WINDOWS:7.0,97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb
Last Reviewed: April 14, 1999