Office 2003 Install

[Nick]

I am trying to install Office 2003 Pro enterprise ed on a brand new Win XP laptop. I Stuck the disk in and did the required product code and told the installer what options I wanted, it starts installation just fine but after about 5 mins it slows to a crawl and eventually stops completely. In order to get out of you have to cold shutdown the computer which takes forever. I have tried 3 different discs (2 copies and 1 original) to no avail. Any ideas? Computer is fully update XP patch wise, Office is the first program to go on the computer. I am logged in as the Administrator

 

[Nick]

The original disk finally worked and completed the install. I still wonder though why this is a probelm, Being an educational institution we often make 2 or 3 copies of the software disks so that we don't use the orignals and have never had any installation problems with other versions of Office (97/2000/XP). Is there some new security feature in 2003 that doesn't allow the disks to be copied?

 

[Susan Ramlet]

Hi, Nick,

I don't know the answer to that, but I would suggest that if you have a
network you consider the possibility of creating a network administrative
installation point to do all your workstation installations from.

You can get a ton of deployment information at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork

Good luck--

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Susan Ramlet
MVP - Microsoft Office
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The original disk finally worked and completed the install. I still

wonder though why this is a probelm, Being an educational institution we
often make 2 or 3 copies of the software disks so that we don't use the
orignals and have never had any installation problems with other versions of
Office (97/2000/XP). Is there some new security feature in 2003 that
doesn't allow the disks to be copied?