Installed Office 2003, XP Office shows not activated

[hunter4us]

I installed Office 2003, told it to remove the old Office version (XP
Office). I removed the install files to save disk space after it was done.

Now Windows Office Update program validation shows that Office 2003 (and
Visio) are activated and fine, but XP Office isn't activated and therefore:
a) It can't validate me
b) I can't run the automatic Office update checker and installed

I try to deinstall Office XP and it says that "the Installation Source
doesn't exist. Verify the source exists and that you can access it."

Of course, I wonder why it thinks that Office XP Pro is still there when I
just did the update to Office Pro 2003 ...

So what do I do?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

My guess is that you are not reading/understanding the error
message correctly. My guess is that the error message relates to
Windows XP, not Office XP. Do you have a legal copy of Windows?
You can help us to help you by quoting the error message
exactly and completely, rather than giving your interpretation of
your recollection of what the error message may have said in
part.