office 2003 keeps installing on a limited account

[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.

 

[stevef5]

nope - you are the first person to respond. Perhaps one day somebody will.

 

[stevef5]

nope - you are the first person to respond. Perhaps one day somebody will.

 

[stevef5]

nope - you are the first person to respond. Perhaps one day somebody will.

 

[stevef5]

nope - you are the first person to respond. Perhaps one day somebody will.

 

[stevef5]

nope - you are the first person to respond. Perhaps one day somebody will.

 

[stevef5]

nope - you are the first person to respond. Perhaps one day somebody will.

 

[Allan]

That's discouraging. Somehow I had the impression there were MVP's out here
who would help with most legitimate problems.

 

[Allan]

That's discouraging. Somehow I had the impression there were MVP's out here
who would help with most legitimate problems.

 

[Allan]

That's discouraging. Somehow I had the impression there were MVP's out here
who would help with most legitimate problems.

 

[Allan]

That's discouraging. Somehow I had the impression there were MVP's out here
who would help with most legitimate problems.

 

[Allan]

That's discouraging. Somehow I had the impression there were MVP's out here
who would help with most legitimate problems.

 

[Allan]

That's discouraging. Somehow I had the impression there were MVP's out here
who would help with most legitimate problems.

 

[Kevin]

I just got off the phone with MS support (if you can call it that). The
answer was that you must run as admin. They said it is that way "by design".
Pretty crappy design. I'd like to see the instructions to get it to work on
Vista without elevated privilages. So much for security best practices.

 

[Kevin]

I just got off the phone with MS support (if you can call it that). The
answer was that you must run as admin. They said it is that way "by design".
Pretty crappy design. I'd like to see the instructions to get it to work on
Vista without elevated privilages. So much for security best practices.

 

[Kevin]

I just got off the phone with MS support (if you can call it that). The
answer was that you must run as admin. They said it is that way "by design".
Pretty crappy design. I'd like to see the instructions to get it to work on
Vista without elevated privilages. So much for security best practices.

 

[Kevin]

I just got off the phone with MS support (if you can call it that). The
answer was that you must run as admin. They said it is that way "by design".
Pretty crappy design. I'd like to see the instructions to get it to work on
Vista without elevated privilages. So much for security best practices.

 

[Kevin]

I just got off the phone with MS support (if you can call it that). The
answer was that you must run as admin. They said it is that way "by design".
Pretty crappy design. I'd like to see the instructions to get it to work on
Vista without elevated privilages. So much for security best practices.

 

[gs]

you probably got the wrong tech ( or they have not conveyed the proper
message to you.. windows 2003 is not exactly designed for vista. My
impression was that ofc 2k3 was designed mostly with winxp, while 2007 is
targeted for WinXP and vista...,

Furthermore ofc 2k3 is 32 bit not 64 bit - how could one say it was by
design to be run as admin on vista? meanwhile ofc2k3 runs .on xp limited
users without trouble.

there are times, guest account may be prompted to re-install each time to
logon and occasionally for a corrupted power user account; often either
delete and create the problem ID, or restore will help



BTW, I have run into some people who are expert at getting
system/application to work quickly but rather loose on security
consideration. they are great for some emergency situations.

 

[gs]

you probably got the wrong tech ( or they have not conveyed the proper
message to you.. windows 2003 is not exactly designed for vista. My
impression was that ofc 2k3 was designed mostly with winxp, while 2007 is
targeted for WinXP and vista...,

Furthermore ofc 2k3 is 32 bit not 64 bit - how could one say it was by
design to be run as admin on vista? meanwhile ofc2k3 runs .on xp limited
users without trouble.

there are times, guest account may be prompted to re-install each time to
logon and occasionally for a corrupted power user account; often either
delete and create the problem ID, or restore will help



BTW, I have run into some people who are expert at getting
system/application to work quickly but rather loose on security
consideration. they are great for some emergency situations.