office 2003 keeps installing on a limited account

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stevef5

Hello, I have office 2003 and XP - all are up to date and on a local machine.
Every time I start any office program under a limited account I get the
windows installer popping up and running. If I change the account to
administrator it starts fine. I have looked through here and saw a few
others with this issue. One from about 2 weeks ago I looked at i added to
over the weekend but thought I would start anew. One thing mentioned in that
thread was looking at the application logs. I did that and saw 2 errors for
office - one was no handwriting recognition message (that one I am ignoring
as this is a desktop)

The other message was about a missing Hkey_classes_Root\.pip\ - could that
be the problem - and if so how do I fix it. Using regedit doesnt bother me
but not familiar with what goes where there.

I am at work now so that message may be a bit off

Thanks

Steve
 
A

Allan

Hello Steve -

Did you ever figure this one out? I have the same problem - quite
irritating.
And I have another one, that just wrote about in another post, which is that
the same thing happens whenever Internet Explorer browses to a new page!

I was doing traces and looking at logs too, and did see the same registry
reference to a HKClasses\.pip\. Who knows what that is.

One thing to do is try setting up shortcuts that go directly to the .exe
files rather than those special Installer shortcuts which reference special
Installer registry keys.
But in my case, even this way, the installs are still launched.

This is pretty frustating since we are all suppose to run with reduce
rights, and I know it can work if set up correctly, because I been at
companies where users are not local admin, but Office does work ok.
 
A

Allan

Hello Steve -

Did you ever figure this one out? I have the same problem - quite
irritating.
And I have another one, that just wrote about in another post, which is that
the same thing happens whenever Internet Explorer browses to a new page!

I was doing traces and looking at logs too, and did see the same registry
reference to a HKClasses\.pip\. Who knows what that is.

One thing to do is try setting up shortcuts that go directly to the .exe
files rather than those special Installer shortcuts which reference special
Installer registry keys.
But in my case, even this way, the installs are still launched.

This is pretty frustating since we are all suppose to run with reduce
rights, and I know it can work if set up correctly, because I been at
companies where users are not local admin, but Office does work ok.
 
A

Allan

Hello Steve -

Did you ever figure this one out? I have the same problem - quite
irritating.
And I have another one, that just wrote about in another post, which is that
the same thing happens whenever Internet Explorer browses to a new page!

I was doing traces and looking at logs too, and did see the same registry
reference to a HKClasses\.pip\. Who knows what that is.

One thing to do is try setting up shortcuts that go directly to the .exe
files rather than those special Installer shortcuts which reference special
Installer registry keys.
But in my case, even this way, the installs are still launched.

This is pretty frustating since we are all suppose to run with reduce
rights, and I know it can work if set up correctly, because I been at
companies where users are not local admin, but Office does work ok.
 
A

Allan

Hello Steve -

Did you ever figure this one out? I have the same problem - quite
irritating.
And I have another one, that just wrote about in another post, which is that
the same thing happens whenever Internet Explorer browses to a new page!

I was doing traces and looking at logs too, and did see the same registry
reference to a HKClasses\.pip\. Who knows what that is.

One thing to do is try setting up shortcuts that go directly to the .exe
files rather than those special Installer shortcuts which reference special
Installer registry keys.
But in my case, even this way, the installs are still launched.

This is pretty frustating since we are all suppose to run with reduce
rights, and I know it can work if set up correctly, because I been at
companies where users are not local admin, but Office does work ok.
 
A

Allan

Hello Steve -

Did you ever figure this one out? I have the same problem - quite
irritating.
And I have another one, that just wrote about in another post, which is that
the same thing happens whenever Internet Explorer browses to a new page!

I was doing traces and looking at logs too, and did see the same registry
reference to a HKClasses\.pip\. Who knows what that is.

One thing to do is try setting up shortcuts that go directly to the .exe
files rather than those special Installer shortcuts which reference special
Installer registry keys.
But in my case, even this way, the installs are still launched.

This is pretty frustating since we are all suppose to run with reduce
rights, and I know it can work if set up correctly, because I been at
companies where users are not local admin, but Office does work ok.
 

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