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Jim Cobban
To get rid of years of accumulated gunk out of my PC I reformatted my hard
drive and reinstalled all of the software that I actually use. Everything
is working fine except MS Word. Every time I open MS Word a dialog pops up
to tell me that it is running the installer. This flashes a few cryptic
messages and runs a progress bar and then goes away. I can then open files
and everything runs fine until the next time I have to start the application
up again. If I started the application by double clicking on a document
that document is not opened, and I have to manually open it from inside
Word.
I have tried rerunning the installation, which gives me the option of
"Repairing" the installation. Nothing helps.
This is a pain.
I suspect the problem occurs because I purchased an upgrade version of
Office 2000. The first time around the installer used the presence of
WordPerfect Office 2000 on my system as grounds for permitting the
installation. However when I tried to follow the same sequence of
installations on the clean system the upgrade failed. I got it to run by
manually copying in my old Office 2000 installation from a backup first.
The installation program then accepted that I had a valid license.
Any ideas of what I have to fiddle to convince Word 2000 that it is actually
installed?
Word 2000 level 9.0.4402 SR1
Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.2222 A
Clean install using Full OEM CD /T:C:\WININST0.400 /SrcDir=D:\WIN98 /IE /NF
/IZ /IS /IQ /IT /II /NR /II /C /U:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IE 5 6.0.2800.1106
Uptime: 0:00:20:13
Normal mode
On "JIMSDESKTOP" as "jim"
AuthenticAMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
120MB RAM
71% system resources free
Windows-managed swap file on drive C (32725MB free)
Available space on drive C: 32725MB of 39256MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive D: 985MB of 3397MB (FAT32)
drive and reinstalled all of the software that I actually use. Everything
is working fine except MS Word. Every time I open MS Word a dialog pops up
to tell me that it is running the installer. This flashes a few cryptic
messages and runs a progress bar and then goes away. I can then open files
and everything runs fine until the next time I have to start the application
up again. If I started the application by double clicking on a document
that document is not opened, and I have to manually open it from inside
Word.
I have tried rerunning the installation, which gives me the option of
"Repairing" the installation. Nothing helps.
This is a pain.
I suspect the problem occurs because I purchased an upgrade version of
Office 2000. The first time around the installer used the presence of
WordPerfect Office 2000 on my system as grounds for permitting the
installation. However when I tried to follow the same sequence of
installations on the clean system the upgrade failed. I got it to run by
manually copying in my old Office 2000 installation from a backup first.
The installation program then accepted that I had a valid license.
Any ideas of what I have to fiddle to convince Word 2000 that it is actually
installed?
Word 2000 level 9.0.4402 SR1
Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.2222 A
Clean install using Full OEM CD /T:C:\WININST0.400 /SrcDir=D:\WIN98 /IE /NF
/IZ /IS /IQ /IT /II /NR /II /C /U:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IE 5 6.0.2800.1106
Uptime: 0:00:20:13
Normal mode
On "JIMSDESKTOP" as "jim"
AuthenticAMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
120MB RAM
71% system resources free
Windows-managed swap file on drive C (32725MB free)
Available space on drive C: 32725MB of 39256MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive D: 985MB of 3397MB (FAT32)