Installing Office XP (2002 version) on Windows Vista Home Premium

[Oz_User]

My new computer came pre-loaded with Windows Vista Home Premium. I have a
bought version of Office XP Professional (2002 version) that has never been
used. I have been unable to load it onto Vista - is it compatible??

When I run Setup, it goes through the usual stuff - enter product ID, do you
want to remove previous versions of Office (I say remove all), how do you
want to install (I choose COMPLETE), do you accept conditions (I select YES).

The Installation Wizard then puts up the Progress screen - the one with "Now
Installing Office" as the title, an Installation Progress bar and a "Current
Action:" field.

But it just stays there - nothing ever appears in the current action field
and the installation progress bar never starts.

Task Manager shows that it is Running, And there are three occurrences of
MSIEXEC.EXE (Windows installer) showing in the Task Manager Processes, but
they never get any CPU usage, staying permanently on 00. If I stop these
three processes and go through the whole procedure again, I will again get 3
occurrences of the installer running.

So, no error messages, just no action !!!

When I start the SETUP program I am using "Run as Administrator" in Vista.

Does anyone have any idea how to Install Office XP (2002) on Vista ????

Thanks

 

[DL]

You need to uninstall the trial version of Office first, clear temp files &
reboot and try again.
PS Outlook 2002 is not fully compatible with Vista

 

[Oz_User]

Thanks DL - Unfortunately my verson of Vista doesn't have a trial version of
Office on it. I did have a version of Office 97 that I had installed, and
following from your advice I have uninstalled that - did a complete
UNINSTALL. However the Office XP setup still doesn't seem to do anything -
just sits on the Progress Screen without bringing up anything in the "Current
Action:" field and with Progress staying at 0%.

Do you have any other ideas?

 

[Oz_User]

Spoke too soon - I tried again - didn't do anything different - and it worked.
Thanks for your help DL - problem solved !!!!