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| Thread ID: 33138 | 2003-05-08 05:16:00 | Office 2K & XP | bk T (215) | Press F1 |
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| 142372 | 2003-05-08 05:16:00 | I've a machine with XP Pro SP1 and all the latest updates installed . Office 2000 Premium with SP3 has also been installed and everything seems to be running OK . I created a new limited user account successfully but when I launched Word from this account, Windows Installer pops up trying to install Office 2K; half way through the process, an error message pops up says: "Error 1706, no valid source could be found for product MS Office 2000 SP1 . Windows installer cannot continue . " When I click the cancel button, Word opens sucessfully . I could use Word as normal . But when I close Word and reopen it, the same error message repeats . I then created another user account with administrative rights and launched Word, the Windows Installer installed went through the above process and installed MS Office 2000 sucessfully without any problem . How do I solve the above problem? I need a limited user account to run Office 2000 on this machine . Suggestions appreciated . Cheers |
bk T (215) | ||
| 142373 | 2003-05-08 05:21:00 | Have you tried setting the user as an administrator then installing / running what you need then change back to a limited user account? | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 142374 | 2003-05-08 11:08:00 | Thanks, CYaBro. I tried as you suggested and it works fine. But, is there any other simpler way to do it? Cheers |
bk T (215) | ||
| 142375 | 2003-05-08 21:32:00 | There most likely is (well, you'd think so anyway but with Microsoft who knows :)) but I haven't really got into restricted user accounts in windows XP yet so don't know sorry. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 142376 | 2003-05-08 22:07:00 | The problem is that when you install SP's for Office 2k, it wants to do something with this patch the first time each and every user uses Office2k. If the user doesnt have sufficient privileges, you get the error you were describing. There must be a way around it, Office 2k is on a hell of a lot of corporate LAN's and I would be very surprised if their admins go through and manually update it for all users... But I dont know what the work around is.. :-/ Iain |
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