Win XP Pro broke Office 2000 Pro

[Ken Leonard]

Howdy;

I have Office 2000 Pro running on a system that I upgraded from
Windows 98 SE to Windows XP Pro.

The Office programs run fine on my "ordinary" user id.

When I try to start _any_ Office program (including the auto-self-run
installer on the Office 2000 CD) on my "administrator" user id, I am
told that the patch package is not valid, etc.

The MS Knowledge Base provides a nifty (?) fix for this problem in the
form of an Installer-cleanup utility. But that the fix is forbidden
on Win XP because XP uses a newer installer than the one the
cleaner-upper is designed for.

So what do I do with Win XP Pro, to let me run Office 2000 programs as
the administrator, and so I can do Office 2000 re/add/cleanup
installation?

???
Ken

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Ken Leonard
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