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We own a travel agency with 20 PC's and 20 Office 2003 licenses. Recently my wife installed a copy form the same distribution disks on her laptop. It installed OK with no extra license needed to be purchased. But today she bought a home PC with Vista Ultimate. I tried to install Office 2003 for her on the tower but it would not let me. Help?

Hey David I have installed Vista Business on machine on a Server 2003 AD Domain. Also on that machine I installed Office 2003. Everything functions great other than the EULA makes you accept each time you open a program i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Publisher. Do you know how I can get this to stop. Also I have accepted it as the Admin like I do when installed on Windows XP. Any thoughts? Thank you for your time.

Christian

I am trying to install Office 2003 and keep getting an error message:

ERROR EXECUTING FILE:

E:\Office11 - Disc 1- Professional\setup.exc

The requested operation requires elevation.

David,

Thanks for the help but Office is updated as of today and so is my Vista Business but I am still getting that error. Any other ideas? Thanks again.

Christian

David,

Thanks for all your help it looks like that cleared it up. Thanks again for the help.

Christian

Lets start off by saying this is a RANT. If you don't like rants, look away now. I saw this in CRN and

I called PC world to find out if they sold just an "access" to add to my student and teacher edition 2003.No they didnt. A bird at the other end told me that they only sold the latest in technology,so I asked if my 2003 edition could be used on vista, she said no only office 2007 will work on vista.I then rang microsoft who told me that pc world, currys, john lewis etc, sold just the access if I wanted to buy it.

Well so much for pc world. I won't be going there anymore.

Hi David

I wonder can you help me on this one?

When i put in my disk to install Office 2003 on Vista i get this message..

"the operating system denied access to the specified file E:\Office11\setup.exe"

Any idea what i can do here?

hopefully you can help...

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium on my laptop (pre-installed, also pre-installed was trial version of Office2007 and MS Works)

Soon after purchase I installed Office 2003 and have been using it happily until I decided to uninstall Office2007 and Works...

Now I receive a Windows Installer telling me it's configuring Office 2003 whenever I open click on any Microsoft utility on my laptop (explorer,ie etc etc)

I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling Office2003 but no joy!

I think it's to do with the admin user control thing but am a little unsure how to deal with it?

Help appreciated!

Im running Vista Ultimate and i try to install Office 20003 Pro, and i got this message: ERROR EXECUTING FILE:

E:\Office11 - Disc 1- Professional\setup.exc.

I whent this website as discription up --> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884202/en-us: With no luck , i did every thing. It shows up that it was jast simpel. What i did was i open the cd and i jast clikked Install file, and walla it began to install :=)

I did a clean install with Vista Ultimate on a laptop.  I have the laptop's original XP recovery disks which include, among other things, Office 2003.  Is there a way to load Office 2003 from these onto Vista?  Thanks

Hello, I have Vista Ultimate working OK on a 3GB Dell Dimension 9200 and have a licensed activated copy of Office 2003 Pro installed and working.  However, anytime I invoke any of the Office Pro apps, I get the popup window re needing to accept the EULA's terms / conditions.  If I click on the Accept button it goes away.  But the next time I invoke that app, the EULA popup comes right back.  Has anyone run into this?  

David - THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH. Re my Microsoft Office 2003 EULA and Vista. I followed the link you gave to Christian. I changed the permission in the registry and now the end user license agreement has finally gone away!! Thanks, Gayle

I recently installed office 2003 on a vista machine, and other than the EULA issue (which your help cleared up - thanks!), everything seems to work fine until I use Word.  When I open word, there is no problem...I can even create or open a file without issue. However, when I go to save or print a file, word unexpectedly gives me an error:"Microsoft word has stopped working: a problem caused the program to stop working" and then it attempts to download updates.  I have all of the updates, and I've tried reinstalling and validating the office install, but nothing appears to work.  Microsoft's knowledgebase doesn't have too much about this problem either that I could find.  Any help would be wonderful.

I wanted to let you know that I fixed the problem myself, so don't bother researching it.  I think there may have been a conflict with all the trials of office 2007 on the machine.  I removed all of them using the remove program option from the control panel.

Then I completely uninstalled office 2003 using the cd, and then I explored the cd, right clicked on setup, ran as administrater, installed - and then I got an error about the installation being improper and would I like windows to reinstall it properly - I said "ok" and tried again, and then it finally installed, reinstalled the updates, and it works wonderfully.

What a headache!  But it works now!

Thanks again for the EULA trick though - that was an annoyance!

does everything you have said in this blog apply  to vista 64 bit as well a to vista 32 bit? the two are not distinguishes in discussions!

stan

Hi David, I would greatly appreciate some input before I buy a laptop with Vista Home Premium OS.  Will the new areo interface work if I just get the Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 or do I need to upgrade to the 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7400 TurboCache™?  Also, will Office 2002 work on Vista Home Premium?  If so, will i be able to connect the outlook to the new features Vista says the neat little things on the screen right side has a outlook task viewer or something?  Lastly, if I don't like Vista, would there be any forseeable problems by uninstalling it and installing XP Pro on the same laptop? Like driver issues or something?  The laptop I am looking at is Dell XPS M1210, T7400, 2GB DDR2..

Thanks Much..

I just bought a toshiba satelite with vista premium home. I cannot "find" the office suite. I have from my previous pc a cd of ms office xp professional, can I install xp onto vista?

im running windows vista ultimate, and i cant install office 2003 pro.  everytime i try it will get about half way through the install, right up to one of the wizard files i think, and then vista will blue screen and restart, ive tried running as admin, in xp compatibility mode nothing works, i never had this problem on vista rc1, anyway, just wondering how to get around this

thx

I have already discussed on this blog what is and is not support for Office on Vista (any version from

[updated to correct a typo - 10:48 27th May 2007] I get lots of mails similar to the one below as a result

I have installed office 2007 on Windows vista

windows installer keeps poping up every time i open an office application

and its taking a long time to run through the configuration wizard and then opens

Found this thread whilst trying to find out more about the EULA agreement registry problem on Vista.

Thanks for your indirect help!

Greg

Hi, i'm trying to install Office 2003 Pro on Windows Vista Home edition.  Error messages appears - DATA ERROR (cyclic redundancy check).

Any idea?

Hi

I'm trying to install Office 2000 on Vista Home Premium. The install worked fine but everytime I start one of the applications, windows installer opens up, runs for a while and then disappears and the app is opened. Is there anyway of getting around that.

Also, everytime I open excel, it gives an error message about one of the libraries stdole32.tlb is missing or damaged and reinstalls it.

How can I fix this? Thanks in advance

Aloha David:

I was searching for support on fixing a problem with Office 2003 after installing Outlook 2007 on Vista and found your blog.  Thank you for the help - your advice fixed my issue - and it is nice to see that you're still out in the technology world helping others.

Viva la Sequent!

Hi David, I was wondering if you'd come across this issue I having with Outlook 2003 SP2 and Vista Home Premium.

Everything in Outlook more or less works fine except the following:

can't send new message and can't reply, reply to all or forward an existing message. The alert message I get each time is "The operation failed".

Windows updated Office to SP2 last night, and I'm wondering if this is causing the issues I'm having today.

Many thanks for any insight into this issue.

Mark

Hi David, got my issue sorted. During installation Outlook didn't create an Outlook Data file. After I created one, everything started to work fine.

Mark :)

i brought new Dell xps M1210 in that windows vista Home premium is pre installed , i don't like Vista, would there be any forseeable problems by uninstalling it and installing XP Pro on the same laptop? Like driver issues or something?

Hi

I'm trying to install Office XP on Vista Home Premium. The install worked fine but everytime I start one of the applications, windows installer opens up, runs for a while and then disappears and the app is opened. Is there anyway of getting around that.

Also, everytime I open excel, it gives an error message about one of the libraries stdole32.tlb is missing or damaged and reinstalls it.

How can I fix this?

Thanks in advance

I installed Office 2003 Pro on my new machine running Vista Home premium.  The machine is also running McAffe Internet Security.  When I configured Outlook to sync with my ISP I noticed that emails were being logged through then dropped before making it to the inbox.  Mail coming with normal email addressing sem to work fine, but email from a web forum are the ones that seem to be affected.  There is nothing in the junk email or McAfe spam folders afterward.  I tried turning everything concerning email security off in McAfee, but the problem persists.As far as I can tell all the internal MSoft security features were turned off by McAfee.  Any sugestions would be greatly appreciated.  

i am trying to install office 2003 on my vista home premium os and i get half way to installing it and comes up with 'Installation error: File not found - A required installation file CR561401.CAB could not be found' can you help?

I installed Office 2003 on Vista Ultimate,. after Office 2003 installation there is one messege that " Preparing to Install"  and configuring Microsoft Office 2003..."  each time when I open many of windows .. pleae tell me the solution

I purchased a new cpu with Vista and I am running Outlook2003.  After 30-60 days, my outlook closes shortly after opening.  I am getting an error message; "outlook11crash". After some research on line, I can not find a clear answer to my problem. The posting I read state the problem results from conflicting updates from Microsoft.  What should I do; please advise...

Hi dave, when installing office 2003 on windows vista i get the error message that it cant file, 01561415.CAB

is there any patches i can download to help this? thanks, jo

I need to purchase a new office package and I am not sure which one to get!

I would like to know if you were to buy not upgrade are the benefits of 2007 worth the 2-300 dollars more?

Hi David,

When I try and download Office 2003 onto my laptop it gets stuck and says an L3561412.CAB is missing. The operating system is Vista. Any ideas or downloads available?

Many Thanks!

Hi David.

I am having problem in deploying MS Access 2003 in Windows Vista.

The scenario is as follows.

I have a fresh installed Windows Vista in my PC, my task is to deploy MS Access 2003 in that Vista machine. The software specification of that Vista machine is that, it has no MS Access 2003 installed. I have created a customized database application and incorporates the Access 2003 run-time.

The said database application is working in my test PC which has Access 2003 running under Windows XP SP2, but when i installed in the Windows Vista, the database application were able to launch but the problem is, "There are no database object such as forms, even the menu bar are not there, it displays a grayed workspace and I cannot see any object in it."

What seems to be the problem? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

gerald

David,

I have Windows Vista installed on my new Toshiba.  It comes with a trial version of Microsoft Office 2007, but I have heard that Office 2003 works just fine.

Having heard that, I have installed my Office 2003 disk. I use the program successfully, but every time I shut down my computer for the evening, Office 2003 uninstalls itself (or disappears.)  In the morning, I can find no evidence that the program had been installed, and Office 2007 is there, in its place.

Am I doing something wrong during the installation process?  Am I required to delete 2007 before reinstalling 2003?  Why does my program keep disappearing?

Please help!

Hi David.

Yes, I did applied Office 2003 service pack in the machine running Vista it is still the same.

I turned on the windows update plus I did a manual update prompting me that there is/are no current updates.

I was thinking of converting my customized application in MS Access 2003 into MS Access 2007. I tried to apply the MS Access 2007 run-time into another machine with an existing MS Office 2003 which has MS Access 2003 installed having Windows XP SP2 as the operating system.

I came across again with the same problem which occurred in Windows Vista machine, I can launch the customized app built in MS Access 2003 but grayed workspace as in no menu bar, no screen to see the database objects such as form, reports, queries, macros etc.

In connection with it, I uninstall MS Access 2007 runtime, reinstalled MS Office 2003 > repair. After installation, tried running that same apps and it did run as original.

Are there any problem with OS or with the runtime?

Thanks in advance.

gerald

I purchased a new cpu with Vista and I am running Outlook2003.  After 30-60 days, my outlook closes shortly after opening.  I am getting an error message; "outlook11crash". After some research on line, I can not find a clear answer to my problem. The posting I read state the problem results from conflicting updates from Microsoft.  What should I do; please advise...

David

When I try to run Office 2003 on Windows Vista it tells me that "the operating system is not presently  configured to run this application"

What do I do??

Thanks in advance.

Dave M

I have Microsoft Office 2003 installed on my windows xp machine, i am thinking of buying a windows vista machine, will i still be able install Microsoft Office 2003 on a vista michine using the windows xp product key.

Hey Dave. I just got a new computer with Vista and everything works until I put Office 2003 on it. When I do, programs like mozilla, itunes, and crysis (game) won't run. I tried looking for patches and updates but at this point I don't want to screw things up more than they already are. Any suggestions?

Hi David

I have a problem with a new laptop, it has win vista home premium installed, I have installed office 2003 on it.

I work with Access databases a lot and never had problems when running on 2000 or xp, but every time I try to open a db under vista it comes up with a message saying  MS Office Access has stopped working!

I googled this error and dont really understand what to do, I have turned of the User Account Control off in Control panel as some suggest this is a problem but to no avail.

I also tried running the msaccess.exe file as a shortcut with Admin privelages, no joy there either.

Microsoft dont want to help unless they can charge me £200 because my vista is an OEM version and my copy of Office 2003 is a volume licence product!

My laptop is from Toshiba and their help team say it is a Microsoft issue regarding compatability between the OS and Access! All they suggest is to run the repair disc and reinstall office.

I would be tearing my hair out if I had any.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Stuart

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Hi David,

I have installed Office 2003 on a computer running Vista, and every time I open Word it goes to default toolbar display settings instead of what I set them to. Specifically it always opens the task pane and removes any buttons from the toolbar that I added manually. I have not had this problem with Word 2003 on XP machines. Do you have any suggestions for making my viewing preferences permanent/default? Thanks,

-Liz

Im usi office 2003 on Windows Vista Home Premium.when I open any office application "windows installer running for 40-45 seconds." After that when I open outlook, there is message pop up "C:\users\china\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Addins\outlvba.dll is not a valid Office Add-in". virus guard are up to dae running. I removed & reinstaled but i got the same issue. I tried it with safe mode but same issue. I want solve this issue with out formating my pc.

Pls. I need a help

Hi David,

I’m using office 2003 with Windows Vista Home Premium. when I open any office application “windows installer running for 40-45 seconds”. And when I open outlook, there is message pop up “C:\users\chin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Addins\outlvba.dll is not a valid Office Add-in”

My virus scanner is running with up to date. I tried it remove & reinstall it but no any changes. I tried it with safe mode but problem is same. ([email protected])

Pls. need a help.

China  

Tanks !

I ll try do that. So... what the solution for my other problem?

I checked it. but it's not working. still in the same problem

China,

if you remove the file and disable it, then you should not be able to get the error message.

Thanks

David

I'm trying to install on Vista Ultimate with Office 2003 that I get for free since I'm a ITT Tech Student and I keep getting "Windows Installer has stopped working"

When I click More Details it gives me this information

Problem signature:

 Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

 Application Name: msiexec.exe

 Application Version: 4.0.6001.18000

 Application Timestamp: 47918d31

 Fault Module Name: msiexec.exe

 Fault Module Version: 4.0.6001.18000

 Fault Module Timestamp: 47918d31

 Exception Code: c0000005

 Exception Offset: 00002886

 OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1

 Locale ID: 1033

 Additional Information 1: 686e

 Additional Information 2: 6be322989e88585c36c525401d3de979

 Additional Information 3: a868

 Additional Information 4: 2f41db37e80f9fb03d3b7fd7f1f798ba

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Hey David. I have a computer with Vista and Microsoft Office 2003 on it everything works ok but when i open word it says that the last time I tried starting it it wouldn't start up properly so it asks me if i want to go into safe mode and the screen resolution changes from Windows Aero to Windows Basic. Do you have any tips?

I inadvetantly installed a trial office 2007 on my new pc which has Vista. I then loaded Office 2003

there seems to be a conflict as I get an error message indicating that 2003 is not configured-in particular

I use Word. Is there anything I can do to resolve the conflict?

Hi, i have a Win Vista Business and i install the Ofiice 2003 everything is running smooth but in a few days

the outlook begin its problems, the app just get frozen i dont know why, i need to kill the task from the

taskmgr, i update the Vista and ask for update for other apps beside vista, and everything is updated,

even if try to install the Office SP (1,2,3)  and can do it, the problem still.

So pls a little help.

David,

I recently switched to vista from xp. previously i could use outlook express completely on xp. but not it does not allow me to create messages. i can still read all my mails but cannot type a new message. any hints on how i can fix this problem? i do not want to use the windows mail provided by vista.

david,

thanks for taking time to answer my question. but can you please elaborate your solution; i'm a bit rusty in such things. i am trying to use the outlook web access. it even allows me to type in reminders, names of the people the mail is to be sent to, but does not allow me to type the mail.

cheers,

harry

I installed Office 2003 Pro on my Bista Ultimate ws.  All was working fine.  I then bought Office 2007 Porfessional.  The system asked if I wanted to upgrade or remove all Office 2003 apps.  I selected to leave msaccess 2003 - since I program with it.

The problem started when Outlook 2003 does not let Outlook 2007 install.  I did some research and found out you can only have one or the other.

I tried to remove the outloo 2003 and it asks me for the source cd.  I put it in and then it states that it is not the correct cd.

I doulnloaed Offfice insttalion cleaner (microsoft product) - I select office 2003 - remove and it says that it removed it but it is still in the system wheneve I boot up again

I am going crazy!! Outlook 2003 "eats" the outlook 2007 - and then I cannot run either - and I cannot install Office 2003.

your help is inmensily appreciated.

[email protected]

I had microsoft office 2003 installed on my old laptop which is not working. I bought a new one and I deleted the office program from the old one. Can I re-install it on the new pc? I have the license to use it in up to 4 computers, I used it on 4 computers, but if I unistalled from one, can I use it again? Thanks

I had been using a very old Windows 98SE laptop, my Office 2003 programs all worked fine on it, as well as on the wife’s desktop computer running XP. I’ve recently bought a new 64 bit laptop running Vista. I installed the Office 2003 suite of programs and am having trouble with Access.

Every time I try to open one of my databases I get a 3358 error, “… Cannot open the Microsoft Jet engine workgroup information file.” “You attempted to perform a security-related task, but the workgroup information file (typically System.mdw) required for the task cannot be found.” I’ve done some checking on this, on the internet, seems a fair number of people are also having some trouble with this issue. What I have been able to ascertain is that this has to do with the msjet40.dll file. On a 64 bit system it is located in the C:\windows\syswow64 folder. On my old computer it was located in the C:\windows\system folder. I also know that the wrkgadm.exe file and the system.mdw file play roles in the working of Access. My guess is that Access 2003 doesn’t know to look for the jet file where it is located on this computer, and/or cannot work correctly with the version that I have.

Based on some of the things I’ve been able to find, and my own logic and reasoning (a dangerous thing, I admit) here’s what I’ve tried so far.

1. I copied the wrkgadm.exe and system.mdw files from the old computer into the C:\program files(X86)\microsoft office\office11\1033 and C:\program files(X86)\microsoft office\office folders, respectfully, since these were the best matches name and location wise to where I copied them from.

2. I believe I downloaded and installed the newest version of msjet40.dll from a Microsoft page I found about this issue, or I already had it. I also followed someone else’s link, who was reporting fixing the same problem, on an Office help forum page on Microsoft, to download and install an earlier version of the msjet40.dll file. When I checked just now I have 3 msjet40 files in 3 different places, all of them are version 4.09704.0, at least one of them should have been an older version, but isn’t (don’t understand that.) The locations of these 3 are now:

• C:\WINDOWS\system

• C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64

• C:\WINDOWS\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-m..-components-jetcore_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6001.18000_none_048ebb9ba7b2fc3a

2. I’ve copied from my wife’s computer the, an XP machine, the versions of msjet40.dll, system.mdw and wrkgadm.exe that are in her C:\Windows\System32 folder, to my own C:\Windows\System32 folder.

None of this has worked. Maybe some or all of these system type files need to be tweaked into the register file in some way or another. That’s something I don’t have any knowledge about. Please Help!!

i am trying to install office 2003 PRO onto my new computer which has Vista OS. I am getting a message that says this:

ERROR executing file

E:\Office11 - Disc 1 - Professional\SETUP. EXE

The requested operation requires elevation

Can you help?? I

I am speaking for a friend who is not as internet savvy.

She has purchased Laptop machine (new) with Windows Vista.

It initially came with Office 2003.  She upgrade Office 2003 to Office 2007 - does not like the 07 Excel program(meaning she can't work it) and would rather have the 03 version back.

  Will Office 2003 come back if she uninstalls Office version 2007?

Or is there more to it?  She says she can't find Office 2003 disk and does not really recall if she ever got it when she got her laptop.

I was personally thinking of doing a "restore" (as I have an XP  machine) to go backwards prior to the installation of 2007, but am not familiar with Vista to know if that function still exists.

Would you comment as to what she should do.

  She only has had the 2007 in for about a week.

Appreciate the assistance.

I speak for a friend.  She bought a brand new Laptop with Vista and Office 2003   She used that for awhile and then bought an Office 2007 disk and installed that.  She is hopelessly lost and would rather have 2003.  So I suggested maybe restore it(As I have XP and have that function and just assumed it would be in Vista as well).    

 Well could not find that easily, so just uninstalled 2007(hoping that 2003 would pop up in its place; as it was never uninstalled).

Of course, that did not happen.

She does not remember having an Office 2003 disk.  

It is possible to reload back Office 2007 but that defeats what we were trying to do - and that is get Office 2003.

Can you comment as what she can do?  She only had 2007 in for a week.     Thank you for your time.   Please email me at the website as I am not familiar with blogs.

Hi..

I have Vista home edition on my notebook.

I am trying to install Office 2003 (S/T edition), it is giving me file not found errors: Q4561409.CAB not found. Once I got file not found error for E4561412.CAB file.

I checked my CD and see all these files are in the CD.

Also, I uninstalled office 2007 trial version & office activation key tried again but it same error.

I tried checking any office install via msicuu2.exe log too but so far no success in installing Office 2003.

How can I install it? Thanks in advance.

Anil

Hi David ,

I am trying to load Office Standard onto a new machine with Vista from a (genuine ) CD.

Error 1608 says :Setup could not locate a version of MS Office 97 , 2000 or XP on the selected drive. Click OK to stop the installation . If you have a version  of MS Office on CD-ROM run setup again

Any ideas ?

Thanks

Hi David,

I have windows Vista and trying to install office 2003 business edition but I get error 1406 which is a registry error...what can I do?

I was having trouble installing MS Office 2003 Pro on my Toshiba Satellite L305 laptop running Windows Vista Home Basic Servcice Pack 2.  The install would hand on the screen that displayed the progress bar.

My laptop came with a trial version of MS Office 2007 pre-installed.  I installed MS Office 97 Pro.

After doing these things the install worked:

1. From Control Panel turned off UAC (User Access Control)

2. From Control Panel un-installed MS Office 2007 trial version.

3. From Control Panel un-installed MS Office 97 Pro. Note this required me to insert my orginal MS Office 97 Pro CD.  The MS Office 97 Pro setup program launches which allows you to do a complete un-install.

After the above steps my MS Office 2003 Pro installation went smooth albeit slow and noisy.  Microsoft’s heavy copy protection schemes continually slow down and speed up your CD and I believe, read from outside the normal regions on the CD.

Im having an issue with office 2003 very similar to this, but whenever i open any office 2003 application, the Windows Installer box comes up and 'reinstalls' itself each time.  it takes almost 3 minutes.  I never had to change anything.  I never had the EULA issue.  Only my old Office 97 works without this.  Anyone know why?

Thnaks in advance:

  -One5860

I have office 2003 installed for 2 years and now it is telling me the license expired.  I want to upgrade to 2007 can I buy upgrade or do I need full version.

Thanks

hey i have a problem.....it is indicatig that the installation source is corrupted and thus the installation is stopped automatically just after i have inserted its serial key....i need help quick plzzzzzzzzz