Office 2000 – winword.exe will not execute

[Gazza]

I have a Toshiba Qosmio and I decided to reformat it using the system
recovery disc. After Windows XP had been reinstalled I changed the main user
from Gareth A. Morgan (I did not realise that the recovery disc was prompting
me for a user name) to Gareth (name) and Pappa (full name) and added another
user Benjamin.

I then installed Office 2000.from the user account Pappa which is an
adminstrrator group, however Word, Excel, etc will not run when logged on as
Pappa (administrator group), however it will run as Benjamin or administrator
when logged on as Pappa. If I log off Pappa and log on as Benjamin the
various office applications run fine from the various short cuts.

I have tried uninstalling and re-installing office, I have tried renaming
the Gareth / Pappa account back to Gareth A. Morgan, but have now run out of
new ideas.

Anyone experienced this before?

 

[Gazza]

I have done some more research. There are four CDs in this Office 2000
premium version so I installed the software from the last three CDs. Rather
bizarre but the applications on them installed and run as expected

Microsoft Photodraw version 2 that I have installed from CDs three and four
executes as expected from the shortcuts and by double clicking PHOTODRW.EXE
in explorer

MS Publisher that was installed from the second CD also executes as
expected, albeit with the error message “cannot start office assistantâ€

Access gets as far as “Can’t find language DLLâ€

Frontpage gets as far as sending an error report to MS

Outlook gets as far as “the operation failed due to an installation problem.
Restart Outlook and try again. If the problem persists; please reinstallâ€

Shortcut for Microsoft Office – Nothing happens

Excel nothing happens

Powerpoint nothing happens

Word nothing happens, however if I “run as†a different user then word
starts up as you would expect and creates Normal.dot in the relevant template
directory

C:\Documents and Settings\Benjamin\Application Data\Microsoft\Maler

Normal.dot

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Maler

Normal.dot

The other applications also start up as expected when executed as a
different user