Upgrade to Office 2003 Student Edition

[sat]

Hi,
I currently have Office Student Edition 2002 and want to upgrade to
Office Student Edition 2003.
HOWEVER, I only have Windows XP HE SP1 and NOT SP2 (I will not be
installing SP2 on my computer anytime soon.)
If I do upgrade to Office 2003 Student Edition, will it require I
install Windows SP2 or will it upgrade independently of what Windows
service pack I have?
Tx.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

1. Office 2003 STE will not come in an upgrade package - it is full retail.
2. You do not need to install any additional SPs for Windows although I
highly encourage SP-2 to be installed - why are you adamant about not
installing it?


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, sat asked:

| Hi,
| I currently have Office Student Edition 2002 and want to upgrade to
| Office Student Edition 2003.
| HOWEVER, I only have Windows XP HE SP1 and NOT SP2 (I will not be
| installing SP2 on my computer anytime soon.)
| If I do upgrade to Office 2003 Student Edition, will it require I
| install Windows SP2 or will it upgrade independently of what Windows
| service pack I have?
| Tx.

 

[sat]

1) Correct it is full retail--i meant it will install over the current
version; my mistake.
2) I have had incredible problems with MS updates where patches slowed
my computer down to a crawl and only when uninstalling update patches
did I recover a "normal" state.
I have also experienced thru other colleagues's SP2 upgrades a complete
mess--and I am not willing to try it at this point.
I do have a CD of SP2 that I picked up at Circuit City over 1 year ago
but again, why fix my computer when it is working perfectly fine now;
and is protected in any event by AV, Anti Spyware, NAT router, etc.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

YMMV but I have several computers here at home that I upgraded to SP-2 and
not one has had a problem. The oldest is a Dell Inspiron 5000 notebook that
I purchased in 1999 and even that one upgraded just fine.

One of the reasons I usually recommend it is that if you have notices in the
last several months, the monthly security patches for Windows have mostly
excluded Windows XP SP-2, which lessens the problems that you say you
experience with patches hosing your system. Better the one patch than the
monthly russian roulette.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, sat asked:

| 1) Correct it is full retail--i meant it will install over the current
| version; my mistake.
| 2) I have had incredible problems with MS updates where patches slowed
| my computer down to a crawl and only when uninstalling update patches
| did I recover a "normal" state.
| I have also experienced thru other colleagues's SP2 upgrades a
| complete mess--and I am not willing to try it at this point.
| I do have a CD of SP2 that I picked up at Circuit City over 1 year ago
| but again, why fix my computer when it is working perfectly fine now;
| and is protected in any event by AV, Anti Spyware, NAT router, etc.
|
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|| 1. Office 2003 STE will not come in an upgrade package - it is full
|| retail.
|| 2. You do not need to install any additional SPs for Windows
|| although I highly encourage SP-2 to be installed - why are you
|| adamant about not installing it?
||
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, sat asked:
||
||| Hi,
||| I currently have Office Student Edition 2002 and want to upgrade to
||| Office Student Edition 2003.
||| HOWEVER, I only have Windows XP HE SP1 and NOT SP2 (I will not be
||| installing SP2 on my computer anytime soon.)
||| If I do upgrade to Office 2003 Student Edition, will it require I
||| install Windows SP2 or will it upgrade independently of what Windows
||| service pack I have?
||| Tx.

 

[sat]

I understand.
When did u do the SP2 upgrades and how? CD-ROM or msupdate website?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

I used a CD-ROM, but Windows Update also works if you have a fast
connection. It would drag on a dial-up.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, sat asked:

| I understand.
| When did u do the SP2 upgrades and how? CD-ROM or msupdate website?
|
|
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|| YMMV but I have several computers here at home that I upgraded to
|| SP-2 and not one has had a problem. The oldest is a Dell Inspiron
|| 5000 notebook that I purchased in 1999 and even that one upgraded
|| just fine.
||
|| One of the reasons I usually recommend it is that if you have
|| notices in the last several months, the monthly security patches for
|| Windows have mostly excluded Windows XP SP-2, which lessens the
|| problems that you say you experience with patches hosing your
|| system. Better the one patch than the monthly russian roulette.
||
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, sat asked:
||
||| 1) Correct it is full retail--i meant it will install over the
||| current version; my mistake.
||| 2) I have had incredible problems with MS updates where patches
||| slowed my computer down to a crawl and only when uninstalling
||| update patches did I recover a "normal" state.
||| I have also experienced thru other colleagues's SP2 upgrades a
||| complete mess--and I am not willing to try it at this point.
||| I do have a CD of SP2 that I picked up at Circuit City over 1 year
||| ago but again, why fix my computer when it is working perfectly
||| fine now; and is protected in any event by AV, Anti Spyware, NAT
||| router, etc.
|||
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|||| 1. Office 2003 STE will not come in an upgrade package - it is
|||| full retail.
|||| 2. You do not need to install any additional SPs for Windows
|||| although I highly encourage SP-2 to be installed - why are you
|||| adamant about not installing it?
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, sat asked:
||||
||||| Hi,
||||| I currently have Office Student Edition 2002 and want to upgrade
||||| to Office Student Edition 2003.
||||| HOWEVER, I only have Windows XP HE SP1 and NOT SP2 (I will not be
||||| installing SP2 on my computer anytime soon.)
||||| If I do upgrade to Office 2003 Student Edition, will it require I
||||| install Windows SP2 or will it upgrade independently of what
||||| Windows service pack I have?
||||| Tx.

 

[Brains,None]

It did... I had to leave my 2 computers on at home 3 nights straight to
pull it down. doing it that way worked well, tho... no problem.

Jim

I used a CD-ROM, but Windows Update also works if you have a fast
connection. It would drag on a dial-up.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, sat asked:

| I understand.
| When did u do the SP2 upgrades and how? CD-ROM or msupdate website?
|
|
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|| YMMV but I have several computers here at home that I upgraded to
|| SP-2 and not one has had a problem. The oldest is a Dell Inspiron
|| 5000 notebook that I purchased in 1999 and even that one upgraded
|| just fine.
||
|| One of the reasons I usually recommend it is that if you have
|| notices in the last several months, the monthly security patches for
|| Windows have mostly excluded Windows XP SP-2, which lessens the
|| problems that you say you experience with patches hosing your
|| system. Better the one patch than the monthly russian roulette.
||
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, sat asked:
||
||| 1) Correct it is full retail--i meant it will install over the
||| current version; my mistake.
||| 2) I have had incredible problems with MS updates where patches
||| slowed my computer down to a crawl and only when uninstalling
||| update patches did I recover a "normal" state.
||| I have also experienced thru other colleagues's SP2 upgrades a
||| complete mess--and I am not willing to try it at this point.
||| I do have a CD of SP2 that I picked up at Circuit City over 1 year
||| ago but again, why fix my computer when it is working perfectly
||| fine now; and is protected in any event by AV, Anti Spyware, NAT
||| router, etc.
|||
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|||| 1. Office 2003 STE will not come in an upgrade package - it is
|||| full retail.
|||| 2. You do not need to install any additional SPs for Windows
|||| although I highly encourage SP-2 to be installed - why are you
|||| adamant about not installing it?
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, sat asked:
||||
||||| Hi,
||||| I currently have Office Student Edition 2002 and want to upgrade
||||| to Office Student Edition 2003.
||||| HOWEVER, I only have Windows XP HE SP1 and NOT SP2 (I will not be
||||| installing SP2 on my computer anytime soon.)
||||| If I do upgrade to Office 2003 Student Edition, will it require I
||||| install Windows SP2 or will it upgrade independently of what
||||| Windows service pack I have?
||||| Tx.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Read the following on installing SP2
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm#Cannot_install_Service_Pack_2
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811113&sd=ee
--
Peter

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1) Correct it is full retail--i meant it will install over the current
version; my mistake.
2) I have had incredible problems with MS updates where patches slowed
my computer down to a crawl and only when uninstalling update patches
did I recover a "normal" state.
I have also experienced thru other colleagues's SP2 upgrades a complete
mess--and I am not willing to try it at this point.
I do have a CD of SP2 that I picked up at Circuit City over 1 year ago
but again, why fix my computer when it is working perfectly fine now;
and is protected in any event by AV, Anti Spyware, NAT router, etc.

1. Office 2003 STE will not come in an upgrade package - it is full retail.
2. You do not need to install any additional SPs for Windows although I
highly encourage SP-2 to be installed - why are you adamant about not
installing it?


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, sat asked:

| Hi,
| I currently have Office Student Edition 2002 and want to upgrade to
| Office Student Edition 2003.
| HOWEVER, I only have Windows XP HE SP1 and NOT SP2 (I will not be
| installing SP2 on my computer anytime soon.)
| If I do upgrade to Office 2003 Student Edition, will it require I
| install Windows SP2 or will it upgrade independently of what Windows
| service pack I have?
| Tx.