BETA: Office 2003 registry not updated properly on install

[Manuel Esteves]

Background:
Our application uses the Registry to determine which
version of Word is installed/being used. Our application
uses several areas of the registry to determine this
(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, etc..).

Problem:
The Office 2003 Beta installation is not properly
updating the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry. The
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Application\CurVer contains
Word.Application.10 after installing Office 2003. Also,
there was no Word.Application.11 directory created in
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. All other registries were updated
properly to Word 11. The install was performed on a
machine with no prior version of Office or Word. We
tried the install a few times with the same results.

Questions:
1) Are you aware of this problem?
2) Is there a patch for the beta?
3) How will the final release work?
4) What's the earliest we can obtain a copy of the final
release?



Thanks,

Manuel F. Esteves
Advisory Software Engineer
IBM Software Group/Rational
20 Maguire Road, Lexington, MA 02421
Tel: 781-372-7849
Email: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Office System 2003 will be made available to Software Assurance and
Enterprise clients as of Monday, September 15. It will also be available to
MSDN Universal Subscribers for download on the same date.

It will be available on newly built systems from OEMs sometime this month.
It will be on sale at retail October 21.

Being from IBM, I would assume that you would have access to the final code
as of Monday, as you are probably at least an Enterprise customer.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Manuel Esteves <[email protected]> asked:

| Background:
| Our application uses the Registry to determine which
| version of Word is installed/being used. Our application
| uses several areas of the registry to determine this
| (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, etc..).
|
| Problem:
| The Office 2003 Beta installation is not properly
| updating the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry. The
| HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Application\CurVer contains
| Word.Application.10 after installing Office 2003. Also,
| there was no Word.Application.11 directory created in
| HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. All other registries were updated
| properly to Word 11. The install was performed on a
| machine with no prior version of Office or Word. We
| tried the install a few times with the same results.
|
| Questions:
| 1) Are you aware of this problem?
| 2) Is there a patch for the beta?
| 3) How will the final release work?
| 4) What's the earliest we can obtain a copy of the final
| release?
|
|
|
| Thanks,
|
| Manuel F. Esteves
| Advisory Software Engineer
| IBM Software Group/Rational
| 20 Maguire Road, Lexington, MA 02421
| Tel: 781-372-7849
| Email: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Manuael,

On the machine I'm using with
Office 2003 Beta 2 + Technical Refresh
(Word version 11.5329.5329)

Word.Application.11 appears for me in HCR
as does
Word.Application.10

and Current version shows Word.Application.11

The Technical Refresh updates are available from
http://microsoft.com/Office/downloads (search on
'2003' or 'Office 2003'.
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Background:
Our application uses the Registry to determine which
version of Word is installed/being used. Our application
uses several areas of the registry to determine this
(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, etc..).

Problem:
The Office 2003 Beta installation is not properly
updating the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry. The
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Application\CurVer contains
Word.Application.10 after installing Office 2003. Also,
there was no Word.Application.11 directory created in
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. All other registries were updated
properly to Word 11. The install was performed on a
machine with no prior version of Office or Word. We
tried the install a few times with the same results.

Questions:
1) Are you aware of this problem?
2) Is there a patch for the beta?
3) How will the final release work?
4) What's the earliest we can obtain a copy of the final
release?



Thanks,

Manuel F. Esteves >>