I get an error message when setting up office 97

[odat]

Hi Odat,

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique
(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

========
I am trying to install office 97 on my new hp pavillion 5330 and I get the
following error message "htmlmarq.ocx was unable to register itself in the
system registry" . It then tells me that it was not a successfull install.
Help! I can't afford a newer version and have found that at school the works
that came with my computer isn't widely used.>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[odat]

Hi Odat,

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique
(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

========
I am trying to install office 97 on my new hp pavillion 5330 and I get the
following error message "htmlmarq.ocx was unable to register itself in the
system registry" . It then tells me that it was not a successfull install.
Help! I can't afford a newer version and have found that at school the works
that came with my computer isn't widely used.>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[odat]

Hi Odat,

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique
(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

========
I am trying to install office 97 on my new hp pavillion 5330 and I get the
following error message "htmlmarq.ocx was unable to register itself in the
system registry" . It then tells me that it was not a successfull install.
Help! I can't afford a newer version and have found that at school the works
that came with my computer isn't widely used.>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi David,

Yes, not all workarounds work all of the time
and sometimes the Web Authoring Tools from Office 97
could get a bit stuck on their own and needed some
extricating before anything else would work.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;172502&FR=1

There was also a pre SR2 issue with certain policies
being in place.

It's possible that there is some other common factor
that may be playing into this, from temp files to
left over .STF files (Office 97 used acmesetup rather
than MSI).
======
"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.


--
David R. Norton MVP >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi David,

Yes, not all workarounds work all of the time
and sometimes the Web Authoring Tools from Office 97
could get a bit stuck on their own and needed some
extricating before anything else would work.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;172502&FR=1

There was also a pre SR2 issue with certain policies
being in place.

It's possible that there is some other common factor
that may be playing into this, from temp files to
left over .STF files (Office 97 used acmesetup rather
than MSI).
======
"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.


--
David R. Norton MVP >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi David,

Yes, not all workarounds work all of the time
and sometimes the Web Authoring Tools from Office 97
could get a bit stuck on their own and needed some
extricating before anything else would work.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;172502&FR=1

There was also a pre SR2 issue with certain policies
being in place.

It's possible that there is some other common factor
that may be playing into this, from temp files to
left over .STF files (Office 97 used acmesetup rather
than MSI).
======
"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.


--
David R. Norton MVP >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi David,

Yes, not all workarounds work all of the time
and sometimes the Web Authoring Tools from Office 97
could get a bit stuck on their own and needed some
extricating before anything else would work.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;172502&FR=1

There was also a pre SR2 issue with certain policies
being in place.

It's possible that there is some other common factor
that may be playing into this, from temp files to
left over .STF files (Office 97 used acmesetup rather
than MSI).
======
"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.


--
David R. Norton MVP >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi David,

Yes, not all workarounds work all of the time
and sometimes the Web Authoring Tools from Office 97
could get a bit stuck on their own and needed some
extricating before anything else would work.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;172502&FR=1

There was also a pre SR2 issue with certain policies
being in place.

It's possible that there is some other common factor
that may be playing into this, from temp files to
left over .STF files (Office 97 used acmesetup rather
than MSI).
======
"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.


--
David R. Norton MVP >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi David,

Yes, not all workarounds work all of the time
and sometimes the Web Authoring Tools from Office 97
could get a bit stuck on their own and needed some
extricating before anything else would work.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;172502&FR=1

There was also a pre SR2 issue with certain policies
being in place.

It's possible that there is some other common factor
that may be playing into this, from temp files to
left over .STF files (Office 97 used acmesetup rather
than MSI).
======
"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.


--
David R. Norton MVP >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi David,

Yes, not all workarounds work all of the time
and sometimes the Web Authoring Tools from Office 97
could get a bit stuck on their own and needed some
extricating before anything else would work.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;172502&FR=1

There was also a pre SR2 issue with certain policies
being in place.

It's possible that there is some other common factor
that may be playing into this, from temp files to
left over .STF files (Office 97 used acmesetup rather
than MSI).
======
"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.


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MS Office System Products MVP

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http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi David,

Yes, not all workarounds work all of the time
and sometimes the Web Authoring Tools from Office 97
could get a bit stuck on their own and needed some
extricating before anything else would work.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;172502&FR=1

There was also a pre SR2 issue with certain policies
being in place.

It's possible that there is some other common factor
that may be playing into this, from temp files to
left over .STF files (Office 97 used acmesetup rather
than MSI).
======
"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.


--
David R. Norton MVP >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx