setup Office97 "insufficient memory"

[Garden Gnome]

Everytime I try to setup Office 97 in my system, I keep getting an
"insufficient memory" message. I have 1 Gb of ram, plenty of harddrive
space. What am I doing wrong?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Pretend we can't see your screen from here. What does the error message
say exactly and completely? What operating system do you have?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

(It's just "pretend" because we actually can see your screen - and when we
turn around we can see YOU!)

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JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Well, that WAS a secret until now...

 

[JoAnn Paules]

That'll be one less person to post a question here less than fully clothed.
;-)

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JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[Garden Gnome]

The exact message says this:

"There is insufficient memory to run Setup -
Try closing any open applications or restarting Windows"

I've got hardly anything running in the background at startup as it is.
Everything I can close, I do.

 

[Garden Gnome]

By the way, if you could see me as I am, I'd be the one scaring y'all away...

And I'm running Windows XP Home Edition....
HP Pavillion Laptop, it's only a year old....

 

[Mary Sauer]

It might be helpful to disable your virus software before you try to install
Office.

OFF97: "Insufficient Memory or Disk Space" Setup Error
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/163493/en-us