Crypto engine

Geoffrey Gladstein

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Nov 1, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/1/98

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What is Crypto engine and why to I get the message "Cannot start crypto
engine" whenever I start Excel (or any other Office 97 component for
that matter)

Frank Isaacs

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Nov 1, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/1/98

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This sounds like it is from some other product. Do you have anything for
encryption installed, like PGP or some digital signature? What OS and
version are you running? Are you or have you ever run any beta software on
the machine?

-Frank
Microsoft Excel MVP
Dolphin Technology Corp.
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Geoffrey Gladstein

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Nov 1, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/1/98

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Frank Isaacs wrote:

I'm using Win95. I don't know of anything installed for encryption except
for Netscape.

Frank Isaacs

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Nov 1, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/1/98

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Well, I've never seen this, and I don't find any hits in the Knowledge Base.
Can you send a screen shot of the message box or post exact details of the
message box (title, message, icon, and buttons)?

-Frank
Microsoft Excel MVP
Dolphin Technology Corp.
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Geoffrey Gladstein

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Nov 2, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/2/98

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Frank Isaacs wrote:

First of all--thanks very much for your help.
Anyway, the box that the message is in has a heading "PC Crypto add-in for
Microsoft Excel" --- Is it possible that this is a program I downloaded from
the net -- if so how do I get rid of it? I can't find any .xla programs that
sound like this, and all the .xla programs seem to be original microsoft
programs.

Frank Isaacs

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Nov 2, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/2/98

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I hunted around, and it looks like McAfee used to have a product called
PC-Crypto (I found a review dated 4/1997). But their site doesn't seem to
list it, although they now have PGP, so maybe it was a precursor to the PGP
line. Try checking with them to see.

By the time you get through diagnosing this, though, it may be that a wipe &
re-install will be easier. Not necessarily recommended, but potentially
easier...

HTH -

-Frank
Microsoft Excel MVP
Dolphin Technology Corp.
http://isaacsf.home.mindspring.com/vba

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DMcRitchie

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Nov 3, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/3/98

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Looking at the thread it appears that it was determined what the software was,
but I didn't see anything about turning off the addin, if there is one.
Tools ---> Addin

The following macro which I changed to utilize a named sheet instead of wiping
out whatever sheet is first. It will list all the addins and whether to addin
box is checked off or not. It may give you further insight because it also
lists the datasets.

Sub EnumerateAddIns()
Worksheets("AddinsSheet").Rows(1).Font.Bold = True
Worksheets("AddinsSheet").Range("a1:d1").Value = _
Array("Name", "Full Name" & " " & Now(), "Title
EnumerateAddIns()", "Installed")
For i = 1 To AddIns.Count
Worksheets("AddinsSheet").cells(i + 1, 1) = AddIns(i).Name
Worksheets("AddinsSheet").cells(i + 1, 2) = AddIns(i).FullName
Worksheets("AddinsSheet").cells(i + 1, 3) = AddIns(i).Title
Worksheets("AddinsSheet").cells(i + 1, 4) = AddIns(i).Installed
Worksheets("AddinsSheet").cells(i + 1, 5).Value = i
Next

Worksheets("AddinsSheet").Range("a1").CurrentRegion.Columns.AutoFit
End Sub

HTH, I neglected to add a comment where the macro came from so I can't tell
you, but I have found it useful. (Think it came from MS KB)

David McRitchie
My Excel Pages: http://members.aol.com/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm