Finding out where Office 2003 stores its setup information

[Robert M Jones]

What is the registry entry where Office 2003 Student and Teacher edition
stores its installation CD location please?
I have installed recently and have the original media, but since then
the CDROM drive letter has changed and will probably change again as I
tweak the machine further. I will probably "copy" the CD anyway to
another partition - but wanted if possible once I have got all my drive
letter allocations settled down (new build, new OS, new installation of
Office) to alter the registry entry for where Office was installed from.

Win XP Home edition SP2

Many thanks.
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[POP]

What is the registry entry where Office 2003 Student and
Teacher edition stores its installation CD location please?
I have installed recently and have the original media, but
since then the CDROM drive letter has changed and will
probably change again as I tweak the machine further. I
will probably "copy" the CD anyway to another partition -
but wanted if possible once I have got all my drive letter
allocations settled down (new build, new OS, new
installation of Office) to alter the registry entry for
where Office was installed from.
Win XP Home edition SP2

Many thanks.
--
Rev Robert M Jones, Wimborne Baptist Church, UK
http://www.wimborne-baptist.org.uk
Free trial of Mailwasher Pro - effective email spam filter
- (commission goes to our partners in Bulgaria)
http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=420

It's not just one location, and it's not just in the Reigistry.
The only right way to do it is to uninstall it and then reinstall
it to the drive you want it on. Probably a much faster way to do
it, too.

There are some software apps that can change a drive letter and
the rest of the data accordingly and with fair success.
Partition Magic seems to be rather good at it if you have that.

Pop

 

[Robert M Jones]

It's not just one location, and it's not just in the Reigistry.
The only right way to do it is to uninstall it and then reinstall
it to the drive you want it on. Probably a much faster way to do
it, too.

There are some software apps that can change a drive letter and
the rest of the data accordingly and with fair success.
Partition Magic seems to be rather good at it if you have that.

Pop

It's not the current HD installation I want to move - just the record of
the original CDROM source of the installation files. AFAIK Office stores
information about the CDROM location where its setup files where
originally installed FROM. It's that single piece of information I want
- the letter of the drive it thinks the original CD was.

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[Graham Mayor]

If you make changes and Word's installation cannot find the CD from which
you originally installed, it will prompt you for it or the new location of
the data files. You can then change the location in that dialog without
having to edit the registry. Word should remember the change. Run Help >
detect & repair to activate the mechanism.

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[Robert M Jones]

If you make changes and Word's installation cannot find the CD from which
you originally installed, it will prompt you for it or the new location of
the data files. You can then change the location in that dialog without
having to edit the registry. Word should remember the change. Run Help >
detect & repair to activate the mechanism.

Thanks - that's what I wanted to know.

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