Why Can't I reinstall Office 97 from original disc

[Joe Webber]

Had Office 97 on an old Laptop which has gone to computer heaven. Have tried
to install Office 97 using original disc but it does not instal completely. I
get the following error message: "HTMLMARQ.ocx was unable to register itself
in the System Registry" Help Please, Joe Webber

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I've heard of this before. Let me see what I read...

I found the following but I cannot guarantee the results. If you try it -
make sure you back up your registry first!!!

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Open regedit and browse to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File
Execution Options

You should see htmlmarq.ocx and htmlmm.ocx separate keys. Rename them to
something else, ie. htmlmarq.tmp and htmlmm.tmp.

You will now be able to install Office 97, including the HTML option,
without incident.

DISCLAIMER: I don't know what this section of the registery does or why
these files were apparently blocked (intentionally or accidently), but this
solution worked flawlessly for me. If you feel uncomfortable, I'm betting
you can rename the keys back to the originals and office will work, but if
you need to reinstall, you'll possibly have to rename them again.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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