Downloaded Demo Won't Work

[Kath]

Hi,

I had downloaded a Microsoft Project demo from the Microsoft Web site
yesterday. I was unable to use the demo because the following had occurred:

1. I got this error message upon launching Project:

The command is attempting to use a Web page from the site gbui://blank.htm/.
You have not identified this site as a trusted site in Internet Explorer.
Project cannot display pages from untrusted sites, so we cannot execute this
command. If you want to use pages from the site gbui://blank.htm/ in Project,
you need to make this site a trusted site in Internet Explorer. You should
make a site trusted only if you are sure of the site’s identity, and you
trust the site will not attempt to damage your computer or your data. Note
that when you trust a site in Internet Explorer, you are trusting the entire
domain to which that site belongs. For example, if you trust the site http://
www.microsoft.com/widgets, you are trusting the entire
http://www.microsoft.com domain.

I hit the OK button.

2. I got this error message:

This trial copy of Microsoft Project 2003 has expired. For more information
about Microsoft Project, please visit your local reseller or see our World
Wide Web sit at http://www.microsoft.com/project/.

I hit the OK button.

3. I got this error message, but please do note that the Web page mentioned
in this message is different from the first error message I had mentioned
above:

The command is attempting to use a Web page from the site
gbui://mainpage.htm/. You have not identified this site as a trusted site in
Internet Explorer. Project cannot display pages from untrusted sites, so we
cannot execute this command. If you want to use pages from the site
gbui://mainpage.htm/ in Project, you need to make this site a trusted site in
Internet Explorer. You should make a site trusted only if you are sure of the
site’s identity, and you trust the site will not attempt to damage your
computer or your data. Note that when you trust a site in Internet Explorer,
you are trusting the entire domain to which that site belongs. For example,
if you trust the site http:// www.microsoft.com/widgets, you are trusting the
entire http://www.microsoft.com domain.

I hit the OK button.

4. I could get out of Microsoft Project at this point only by hitting
alt-control-delete and using the task manager to end the task.

5. I then went into Tools>Internet Options, etc. in Internet Explorer to
make the two sites into trusted sites, but when I went back into MS Project,
the same error messages popped up!

Please help me get past this problem, so I could use this trial.

Thanks!

 

[JulieS]

Hi Kath,

Sounds like there are a couple of things going on. For error 1 see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887028/en-us

For error 2 see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285343/en-us

Although the KB article refers to Project 2002, it may well be an issue in
2003 as far as I know.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie