Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

Sevin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:38:19 GMT

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

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

Pam — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:24:27 GMT

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

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

One5860 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:03:12 GMT

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

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

Bob M. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:14:00 GMT

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.

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

Anna Royal — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:21:47 GMT

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?

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

David Overton — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:08:01 GMT

Paul,

You have an UPGRADE CD - it requires a previous version to be installed or available on disk/CD to install.

Thanks

David

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

Paul Hughes — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:56:50 GMT

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

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

AT — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:46:07 GMT

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

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

David Overton — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:16:39 GMT

friedemann,

I would start by contacting the manufacturer of the laptop as they should be able to help with media (CDs) / recovery disks etc in some way.

Vista does have a restore function, just search for Restore in the start menu and System Restore should be listed, however the manufacturer might have "helpfully" disabled this function.

Otherwise, there are tools that will add Office 2003 menus to Office 2007 and other items. Do a search for the office 2007 items on this site.

thanks

David

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

friedemann — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:44:35 GMT

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.

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

Friedemann — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:27:33 GMT

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.

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

jake — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:59:21 GMT

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

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

David Overton — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:48:58 GMT

Guns4fun - Have you looked at support.microsoft.com/.../en-us - it looks like it may hold the answer.

Thanks

David

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

guns4fun — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:58:16 GMT

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!!

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

Yari — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:42:15 GMT

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

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

gerincon@ctginc.net — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:36:32 GMT

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.

gerincon@ctginc.net

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

David Overton — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:50:37 GMT

Harry, Windows Live includes a downloaded client that will do e-mail and contacts. Calendar is coming soon - try calendar.live.com and see if it will let you in. If so, if the instant messenger client is logged in, you will get reminders too. I'll also ask internally about how we recommend resolving this.

Thanks

David

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

harry — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:22:11 GMT

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

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

David Overton — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:58:05 GMT

Harry,

I would strongly trying the product that came out of the online team (where Express came from) - go to http://get.live.com and grab either the whole bunch, or at the least the Live Mail clients.

If this does not work for you, please share why you want Express rather than Live Mail so I can work out a solution.

Thanks

David

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

harry — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:52:45 GMT

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.

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

Frank — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:51:29 GMT

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.

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

Richard L Sakala — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:50:15 GMT

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?

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

Andrew — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:41:27 GMT

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?

re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

Chris — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:09:18 GMT

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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re: Running Office 2003 on Windows Vista and running other applications that work on Windows XP on Vista

David Overton — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:42:35 GMT

China,

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

Thanks

David