Office 2000 (SR-1a) Update Step-by-Step Installation Instructions

[marscv]

The instructions are straightforward. In those instructions Microsoft
recommends to also update Internet Explorer once the Office 2000 has been
successfully installed. This is described in step 11. However, when I try
to return to the Office 2000 SR-1a update to repeat steps 1 through 4 in
order to get to and click on the "Update Windows" icon, the system will not
allow me to do so. A window pops up that tells me that I already have the
SR-1 update installed. I believe either the instructions are wrong or at
some point in the past I upgraded Internet Explorer when prompted by Windows
Update and therefore, no further upgrade is necessary. Anybody with a
similar experience?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Internet Explorer is not a part of Office, so why are you using Office
Update to update a part of Windows, not Office? Use Windows Update.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, marscv asked:

| The instructions are straightforward. In those instructions Microsoft
| recommends to also update Internet Explorer once the Office 2000 has
| been successfully installed. This is described in step 11. However,
| when I try to return to the Office 2000 SR-1a update to repeat steps
| 1 through 4 in order to get to and click on the "Update Windows"
| icon, the system will not allow me to do so. A window pops up that
| tells me that I already have the SR-1 update installed. I believe
| either the instructions are wrong or at some point in the past I
| upgraded Internet Explorer when prompted by Windows Update and
| therefore, no further upgrade is necessary. Anybody with a similar
| experience?

 

[Bill Drake]

The "Update Windows" Icon on the Office Update page will be "greyed
out" if the version of Internet Explorer on your machine is newer than
the minimum-version-number coded in that page (which I think is MSIE
5, but it's been so long since I've checked that I'm not certain any more).

It is perfectly-and-utterly-normal for the "Update Windows" icon to be
greyed-out on the Office Update page for all but the most-ancient of
Windows Installs. Anyone who has gone to Windows Update and
gotten any of the Windows Updates newer than a year old will have
a version of Internet Explorer which causes the Office Update page
to have its "Update Windows" Icon greyed-out.


As long as you have run both the Windows Update and Office Update
procedures to completion (so they show a response of "No Critical
Updates" from WU and "Your machine is completely up to date" from
OU, then you are good to go.


Best I can do for now. <tm>


Bill