2000 installed - not prompted to register. Why?

[GPO]

I recently had to format my hard drive and reinstall everything including
Office 2000 (9.0.2720). When reinstalling office 2000, the process started
by saying it could not find a version of Office on my PC. I thought this was
odd and pointed it at g:\ (the drive with the cd in it). It then installed
without a hitch. I later realised that, being an upgrade version of office
2000, it was probably looking for my old Office 97 (which of course is long
gone).

Have I installed it properly? How come it let me without details of my old
office 97?

With previous installations of Office 2000 (9.0.2720), it has ALWAYS
prompted me to register (threatening me with death etc) but it has not done
so this time. Why not? (Yes it is a legal version).

The other thing is patch hell. When I do my 6 monthly format and reinstall,
I seem to be forced to download updates and patches from MS (on my painfully
slow dial-up modem). It seems I have no way of storing the files I'm
downloading. It just installs them automatically. Whilst this might seem
convenient, it is not, because everytime I want to format/reinstall I have
to give up about 9 hours so I can download everything (again!). Is there a
way of storing the files before installation?

GPO

 

[Eric Booth]

I recently had to format my hard drive and reinstall everything including
Office 2000 (9.0.2720). When reinstalling office 2000, the process started
by saying it could not find a version of Office on my PC. I thought this was
odd and pointed it at g:\ (the drive with the cd in it). It then installed
without a hitch. I later realised that, being an upgrade version of office
2000, it was probably looking for my old Office 97 (which of course is long
gone).

Have I installed it properly? How come it let me without details of my old
office 97?

With previous installations of Office 2000 (9.0.2720), it has ALWAYS
prompted me to register (threatening me with death etc) but it has not done
so this time. Why not? (Yes it is a legal version).

The other thing is patch hell. When I do my 6 monthly format and reinstall,
I seem to be forced to download updates and patches from MS (on my painfully
slow dial-up modem). It seems I have no way of storing the files I'm
downloading. It just installs them automatically. Whilst this might seem
convenient, it is not, because everytime I want to format/reinstall I have
to give up about 9 hours so I can download everything (again!). Is there a
way of storing the files before installation?

GPO

Have alook at the Microsoft Corporate catalogue site

Eric Booth