Office 2000 installer initiates for limited XP accounts

[m_ridzon]

I am running WinXP Pro, SP3 on a newly formatted harddrive. I have Office
2000 installed on the system with all available updates downloaded from the
Microsoft site. Two user accounts on the PC are limited accounts. When I
open up Word, Excel, PwrPnt, Access, etc from one of the limited user
accounts, I have no problems. When I try to open them up from the other
limited user account, the Win Installer initiates and cycles a few times
before the program will open. Through the cycles, I have to hit OK to an
Error 1706 (message reads: "No valid source could be found for Microsoft
Office SR-1 Professional. Win Installer cannot continue."). Does anybody
know why this only happens on one of the limited accounts? How do I fix it?
If I change the account to an admin account, the problem goes away.

Note: I can't remember for sure, but I think I downloaded and installed all
of the Office updates from the first limited account (the account that opens
the programs w/no problems) before it was changed to a limited account. In
fact, I think I installed the whole software package from this user account
before it was changed to a limited account. I can't be 100% sure though.

Any help??

M Ridzon

 

[Peter Foldes]

See this MS KB
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

 

[m_ridzon]

Never mind. I fixed it. I changed the limited account that was giving me
Office start-up problems to an admin account. I then opened all of the
MSOffice applications within that account. When I opened the first one, it
prompted me to insert the installation CD, which I did. I then changed the
account back to a limited account and did a restart on the system. Now, all
of the MSOffice applications open up perfectly within both limited user
accounts.

I think the key was having the user account set up as an admin when the
initial MSOffice application was opened up. After that, it can be changed to
a limited account. Things seem to be running perfectly now.

M Ridzon