Office 2003 Professional updates will not install

[Viv]

I cannot install the latest Service Pack 3 on my Vista Home Premium computer,
nor Outlook Junk Mail filters or security updates for Excel. I have tried
doing a repair for Office but this does not work either because I have some
references to an L:\ drive which I used to have but merged with another drive
and deleted the files on this old drive.
When I check my registry there are 14 references to the L:\ drive and I
assume that the problem is associated with these references. The registry
keys are :-

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\ProductID1\SourceList
Name - LastUsedSource Type - REG_EXPAND_SZ Data - n;1;L:\MSOCache\All
Users\Product ID1\
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\ProductID1\SourceList\Net
Name - 1 Type - REG_EXPAND_SZ Data - L:\MSOCache\All Users\Product ID1\
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\ProductID2\SourceList
Name - LastUsedSource Type - REG_EXPAND_SZ Data - n;1;L:\MSOCache\All
Users\Product ID2\
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\ProductID2\SourceList\Net
Name - 1 Type - REG_EXPAND_SZ Data - L:\MSOCache\All Users\Product ID2\
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\ProductID1\SourceList\
Name - LastUsedSource Type - REG_EXPAND_SZ Data - n;1;L:\MSOCache\All
Users\Product ID1\
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\ProductID1\SourceList\Net
Name - 1 Type - REG_EXPAND_SZ Data - L:\MSOCache\All Users\Product ID1\
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\ProductID2\SourceList\
Name - LastUsedSource Type - REG_EXPAND_SZ Data - n;1;L:\MSOCache\All
Users\Product ID2\
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\ProductID2\SourceList\Net
Name - 1 Type - REG_EXPAND_SZ Data - L:\MSOCache\All Users\Product ID2\
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\ProductID3
Name – 000002109620000….. Type – REG_SZ Data – L:\
Name – 000002119510000….. Type – REG_SZ Data – L:\
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\ProductID4
Name – 000002109620000….. Type – REG_SZ Data – L:\
Name – 000002119510000….. Type – REG_SZ Data – L:\
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\ProductID1\InstallProperties
Name – InstallSource Type – REG_SZ Data – L:\MSOCache\All
Users\ProductID1\
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\ProductID2\InstallProperties
Name – InstallSource Type – REG_SZ Data – L:\MSOCache\All
Users\ProductID2\
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{ProductID1}
Data – InstallSource Type – REG_SZ Data – L:\MSOCache\All
Users\ProductID1\
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{ProductID2}
Data – InstallSource Type – REG_SZ Data – L:\MSOCache\All
Users\ProductID2\

When I try to repair or install an update the message I get relates to
FrontPage2003 and is 'Error 1327. Invalid Drive L:\'. I did install
FrontPage without getting it authorised by Microsoft, (I know that is not the
correct term), and then upgraded it to Expression Web.

In addition I did use a registry cleaner but will no longer do this. Is
anyone able to suggest what steps I could take to resolve my problem?

Viv

 

[db ´¯`·.. >]

you might
try to run this:

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/article/registry_cleaner_why.htm

if service pack 3 still doesn't
install I wouldn't loose any
sleep over it as long as your
current office installation
works.



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[Viv]

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately this did not help.

Viv