Fatal Error Installing Office 2003

[dogsnack]

This is my 2nd post regarding this issue: My 60 day trial version of Office
2003 expired March 31. I purchased the full version but on every attempt to
install received error message "Installation ended early because of error">
No other information was given. I contacted MS Online Service transactions
and they direted me to a link that addressed issues with download. I was
instructed to delete current trial version, install trial again and attempt
install of Office with my new product key. I am unable to install the <new>
trial version. It will begin extracting and after about 45 seconds will quit
with "Fatal error during installation" again, no further iformation. I am
running XP Home Edition V 2002 Service Pack 2 on a 1.73 GHz processor with
504 of RAM, 44.2 GB available memory,I am new to XP and have performed the
following in hopes of remedying this:
*did a repair of system (was unable to do a restore prior to this)
*downloaded windows install clean up utility and deleted all Office files;
*renamed Office file (tried to delete but would not let me);
* turned off all Anti virus and windows firewall;
*rebooted

I am still unable to install Office,
I hope someone can advise me further, I do not want to reinstall my system.
Thank you

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Uninstall the Office trial completely. Get the Windows Installer Clean-up
Utility (available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/en-us)
Reboot if told.

Then try installing just your purchased version of Office.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, dogsnack asked:

| This is my 2nd post regarding this issue: My 60 day trial version of
| Office 2003 expired March 31. I purchased the full version but on
| every attempt to install received error message "Installation ended
| early because of error"> No other information was given. I contacted
| MS Online Service transactions and they direted me to a link that
| addressed issues with download. I was instructed to delete current
| trial version, install trial again and attempt install of Office with
| my new product key. I am unable to install the <new> trial version.
| It will begin extracting and after about 45 seconds will quit with
| "Fatal error during installation" again, no further iformation. I am
| running XP Home Edition V 2002 Service Pack 2 on a 1.73 GHz
| processor with 504 of RAM, 44.2 GB available memory,I am new to XP
| and have performed the following in hopes of remedying this:
| *did a repair of system (was unable to do a restore prior to this)
| *downloaded windows install clean up utility and deleted all Office
| files;
| *renamed Office file (tried to delete but would not let me);
| * turned off all Anti virus and windows firewall;
| *rebooted
|
| I am still unable to install Office,
| I hope someone can advise me further, I do not want to reinstall my
| system. Thank you

 

[dogsnack]

thank you but I have downloaded the clean up installer (re below) and removed
Trial. I ws instructed to reinstall trial because I was only given Product
key and was to enter it on setup rather than the trial version key. I was
only provied product key...I am ssuming cd will be sent and will not be an
upgrade but full version? Time was important and I hoped to fix this sooner
than waiting for delivery. Thank you