Office 2000 setup in Win98

R

Rouke

I had Office 2000 setup in Windows 98SE, and running succesfully for many
years, when suddenly it gave me a message that the application wasn't
properly installed and that I needed to install it from the location where
it was originally installed. This happens only in the user profiles, when I
press 'cancel' (default user?, where office was installed) instead of
selecting a user profile at start up, Office works fine. I can't think of
having installed anything except I have reinstalled Windows 98SE, 'repaired'
Office 2000 in the original location, but nothing will help. Is there
anyway I can compare the registry of the default setup and that of the user
profile? What line should I look for in the registry? The only other option
I can think of is creating a new user profile, but then I loose too many
settings. Could someone help me please?

Thanks,
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Rouke asked:

| I had Office 2000 setup in Windows 98SE, and running succesfully for
| many years, when suddenly it gave me a message that the application
| wasn't properly installed and that I needed to install it from the
| location where it was originally installed. This happens only in the
| user profiles, when I press 'cancel' (default user?, where office was
| installed) instead of selecting a user profile at start up, Office
| works fine. I can't think of having installed anything except I have
| reinstalled Windows 98SE, 'repaired' Office 2000 in the original
| location, but nothing will help. Is there anyway I can compare the
| registry of the default setup and that of the user profile? What line
| should I look for in the registry? The only other option I can think
| of is creating a new user profile, but then I loose too many
| settings. Could someone help me please?
|
| Thanks,
 

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