"not installed for current user"

[Adam Smith]

Dear Folks,

I was running Office 2003, uneventfully, until the last few days. The only
change on my system was the installation of XP SP2.

Since then, I've had problems opening Office programs.

I subsequently reinstalled Office 2003 from my original disks.

When I then start up an Office program, the program begins an installation
routine. I often get an error message that indicates that some feature is
not available. The installation continues.

Finally, I get a message saying:

MS Outlook ( or Word or Excel) is not installed for the current user.
Please run setup to install the application.

Of course, this error message comes "after" I've run setup.

Any ideas out there?

thanks

 

[Chris Schatte]

Adam Smith,
Question:
Was the XPSP2 update installed under the same user account as Office?

Chris Schatte

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[Adam Smith]

Yes,

In searching, I found some suggestion that my user profile was corrupted. I
created a new user profile and "apparently" have successfully installed the
original Office 2003 programs.

I'm waiting a bit to try updating them.

thanks

 

[finisterre]

Where exactly is the suggestion about corrupted user profile, and how do you
create a new one?

I had the identical "not installed for current user" problem show up out of
the blue for Office 2000 (maybe after installing XP SP2, maybe not).

I have NEVER, EVER had different 'users' on this computer, or used
'administrator rights' or anything like that. It's my own computer, at home,
just for me, and not on any network. So I've never dealt with different
'users' or 'profiles' before.

Thanks