T
Tom
Hi,
I had Vista x64 RC1 running with Office 2007 Beta. I've now upgraded to
Vista x64 Premium Plus RTM. In attempting to reinstall Office 2007 to the
RTM version, I consistently get error 2203. (After Vista upgrade, Office no
longer showed up as entry in Add-remove programs control panel). I've tried
everything. My first attempt was from a CD burned from the downloaded .iso
file; subsequently, I "extracted" the .iso file to hard disk files and tried
running set up from there, with the same results. Turning UAC on and off
makes no difference. I then enabled the administrator account, logged on
with it and tried installation, still with same results.
I found another form entry for 2007 Beta that indicates that
"After searching the Microsoft Knowledge Base I learned that "Error 2203" is
an "access denied" error caused when "incorrect permissions are set for the
folder that contains the Office XP administrative installation point" -
whatever that means.
The resolution is to "grant the System account Full Control permissions to
the folder that contains the administrative installation point."
"
but I, like the questioner in this message, don't not know what folder is
involved. I've checked \temp and other obvious directories for 'SYSTEM'
owner, but without knowing exactly where to look, my effort was probably
worthless. I saw the reference to SYSTEM in another post somewhere, also.
I suppose I could reinstall VISTA again and then try Office again, but
without some good feeling that it would solve the problem, it seems rather
like a lot of work and rather pointless.
Any smart person have any ideas?
I had Vista x64 RC1 running with Office 2007 Beta. I've now upgraded to
Vista x64 Premium Plus RTM. In attempting to reinstall Office 2007 to the
RTM version, I consistently get error 2203. (After Vista upgrade, Office no
longer showed up as entry in Add-remove programs control panel). I've tried
everything. My first attempt was from a CD burned from the downloaded .iso
file; subsequently, I "extracted" the .iso file to hard disk files and tried
running set up from there, with the same results. Turning UAC on and off
makes no difference. I then enabled the administrator account, logged on
with it and tried installation, still with same results.
I found another form entry for 2007 Beta that indicates that
"After searching the Microsoft Knowledge Base I learned that "Error 2203" is
an "access denied" error caused when "incorrect permissions are set for the
folder that contains the Office XP administrative installation point" -
whatever that means.
The resolution is to "grant the System account Full Control permissions to
the folder that contains the administrative installation point."
"
but I, like the questioner in this message, don't not know what folder is
involved. I've checked \temp and other obvious directories for 'SYSTEM'
owner, but without knowing exactly where to look, my effort was probably
worthless. I saw the reference to SYSTEM in another post somewhere, also.
I suppose I could reinstall VISTA again and then try Office again, but
without some good feeling that it would solve the problem, it seems rather
like a lot of work and rather pointless.
Any smart person have any ideas?