Disabling "installation on demand" on Office 2003

[Steven P. Ulrick]

Hello, Everyone
I just purchased a copy of the Student/Teacher edition of Office 2003.
There is one "feature" that I want to disable as soon as possible: that
window that opens up (sometimes) when I open any of the four main components
of Office 2003. It simply informs me that it is going to install an Office
2003 feature. After I installed Office 2003, I went back to see if I could
just set it to run all features from the harddrive. I could find no way to
do so. That's not to say there wasn't a way, but just that I could not find
it.
I can imagine why Microsoft would come up with a feature like this one, but
I don't need it, and I want to get rid of it.
If you need any clarification on this question, feel free to let me know.

Steven P. Ulrick

 

[Steven P. Ulrick]

Hello, Everyone
I just purchased a copy of the Student/Teacher edition of Office 2003.
There is one "feature" that I want to disable as soon as possible: that
window that opens up (sometimes) when I open any of the four main components
of Office 2003. It simply informs me that it is going to install an Office
2003 feature. After I installed Office 2003, I went back to see if I could
just set it to run all features from the harddrive. I could find no way to
do so. That's not to say there wasn't a way, but just that I could not find
it.
I can imagine why Microsoft would come up with a feature like this one, but
I don't need it, and I want to get rid of it.
If you need any clarification on this question, feel free to let me know.

Steven P. Ulrick

Hello, Again
I just started writing an email, and I chose to write it in "plain text"
When I chose that option, one of the windows that I referred to in my
original post said that it was going to install something related to Visual
Basic! Am I to understand that I need Visual Basic to write a plain text
email?

 

[Steven P. Ulrick]

Hello, Everyone
I just saw the most amazing thing on the subject of this thread: I just
tried to spell check a document in Word, and Word told me that that feature
wasn't installed, and would I like to install it! I am really looking
forward to finding out how I can just install ALL features, so that I never
have to wait for features to be installed that should have been installed by
default. As I mentioned in my original post on this subject, when I
installed a second time (I tried to do a repair install to see if I could fix
this problem) I swear that I went through and checked for all features to be
installed....

Anyway, Have a Great Day
Steven P. Ulrick

 

[garfield-n-odie]

To install all available features in Microsoft Office, click on Start |
Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Microsoft Office | Change | click on
the little downward-pointing black triangle to the left of "Microsoft Office"
and choose "Run all from my computer" | Update.

 

[Steven P. Ulrick]

Hello
That answer hurts The reason why is that I got an email back from a
person at Microsoft tech support. The advice they gave me caused Windows
Explorer to crash everytime I tried to search for a DLL that I was told
couldn't be deleted. (Part of the tech support persons solution to my problem
involved manually deleting the folder "Microsoft Office" from "Program Files"
after I had run this installation file cleanup utility that Microsoft has.
Then I ran "System Restore" and that fixed the crashing issue. Backed up my
files (thankfully) and then tried to follow Microsoft's instructions again.
Same result Thankfully, I own a full installation CD of XP PRO for the
computer in question......
If this problem happens again, I will try YOUR solution first

 

[garfield-n-odie]

I think the MS tech support solution would apply if you attempted to
install Office 2003 but the installation process ended prematurely and
left you unable to reinstall or uninstall. Your situation appears to be
different, so I'm not sure why they suggested what they did. Sorry you
had this problem, and hopefully the system restore got rid of the Office
startup problem you were having.

 

[Steven P. Ulrick]

Hello
I apologize for not responding to you sooner. One thing I need to mention
is that if the installation process ended prematurely, the process itself was
not friendly enough to me to inform me of that
As far as the "installation on demand" issue is concerned, after a
completely fresh install of XP (which apparently completed successfully) and
a fresh install of Office 2003 Student/Teacher edition, the problem still
persists. In fact, it's worse than I thought: it actually prompts me to
install features that HAD TO have already been installed, because I was
prompted that that feature was going to be installed before.....
In closing, with a completely fresh install of XP PRO (reformatted the
harddrive, etc.) and Office 2003, I am still prompted that features are going
to be installed. Not only that, but I made sure that I did a custom install,
and I went through and made sure that ALL features were set to be installed
on and run from the harddrive.

Thanks for your help so far on this matter
Steven P. Ulrick

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Hi, Steven. There is an article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base addressing
this problem in Office 2000. It doesn't say anything about Office 2003, but
it may apply to your situation. The article is
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=265194 "Windows Installer Appears Every
Time a Program Is Started". Everywhere the article says "Office\9.0", just
pretend it says "Office\11.0". Please post back to tell us whether the
suggested solution in the article works for you.