Post-SP3 Setup fails for Office XP...

[Bernie Deitrick]

Hello everybody,

I initially installed Excel, Access, and Word XP on my machine, and updated
them using SP3.

Now when I try top use Office setup (to install Outlook XP), the installer
looks for an SP3 file in my Temp folder. So the setup is failing - I have
tried re-running the SP3 installation, which finished correctly saying that
SP3 was already applied, but I still cannot run Office Setup since that file
in not found.

Any idea how to get around this to get Outlook installed?

Thanks,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Hello everybody,

In case anyone else has problems, I solved this by following some of the
instructions at

http://www.petri.co.il/office_xp_sp_slipstreaming.htm

The important one was extracting the service pack files by running the
command

C:\folder\OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe /t:c:\OfficeXPSP3 /c

where folder is the actual path.

Then, when I was prompted to find mainsp3ff.msp by Office Setup, I navigated
to the folder C:\OfficeXPSP3 and selected it.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Hello everybody,

In case anyone else has problems, I solved this by following some of the
instructions at

http://www.petri.co.il/office_xp_sp_slipstreaming.htm

The important one was extracting the service pack files by running the
command

C:\folder\OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe /t:c:\OfficeXPSP3 /c

where folder is the actual path.

Then, when I was prompted to find mainsp3ff.msp by Office Setup, I navigated
to the folder C:\OfficeXPSP3 and selected it.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Hello everybody,

In case anyone else has problems, I solved this by following some of the
instructions at

http://www.petri.co.il/office_xp_sp_slipstreaming.htm

The important one was extracting the service pack files by running the
command

C:\folder\OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe /t:c:\OfficeXPSP3 /c

where folder is the actual path.

Then, when I was prompted to find mainsp3ff.msp by Office Setup, I navigated
to the folder C:\OfficeXPSP3 and selected it.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Hello everybody,

In case anyone else has problems, I solved this by following some of the
instructions at

http://www.petri.co.il/office_xp_sp_slipstreaming.htm

The important one was extracting the service pack files by running the
command

C:\folder\OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe /t:c:\OfficeXPSP3 /c

where folder is the actual path.

Then, when I was prompted to find mainsp3ff.msp by Office Setup, I navigated
to the folder C:\OfficeXPSP3 and selected it.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Hello everybody,

In case anyone else has problems, I solved this by following some of the
instructions at

http://www.petri.co.il/office_xp_sp_slipstreaming.htm

The important one was extracting the service pack files by running the
command

C:\folder\OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe /t:c:\OfficeXPSP3 /c

where folder is the actual path.

Then, when I was prompted to find mainsp3ff.msp by Office Setup, I navigated
to the folder C:\OfficeXPSP3 and selected it.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Hello everybody,

In case anyone else has problems, I solved this by following some of the
instructions at

http://www.petri.co.il/office_xp_sp_slipstreaming.htm

The important one was extracting the service pack files by running the
command

C:\folder\OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe /t:c:\OfficeXPSP3 /c

where folder is the actual path.

Then, when I was prompted to find mainsp3ff.msp by Office Setup, I navigated
to the folder C:\OfficeXPSP3 and selected it.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Hello everybody,

In case anyone else has problems, I solved this by following some of the
instructions at

http://www.petri.co.il/office_xp_sp_slipstreaming.htm

The important one was extracting the service pack files by running the
command

C:\folder\OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe /t:c:\OfficeXPSP3 /c

where folder is the actual path.

Then, when I was prompted to find mainsp3ff.msp by Office Setup, I navigated
to the folder C:\OfficeXPSP3 and selected it.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Hello everybody,

In case anyone else has problems, I solved this by following some of the
instructions at

http://www.petri.co.il/office_xp_sp_slipstreaming.htm

The important one was extracting the service pack files by running the
command

C:\folder\OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe /t:c:\OfficeXPSP3 /c

where folder is the actual path.

Then, when I was prompted to find mainsp3ff.msp by Office Setup, I navigated
to the folder C:\OfficeXPSP3 and selected it.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Hello everybody,

In case anyone else has problems, I solved this by following some of the
instructions at

http://www.petri.co.il/office_xp_sp_slipstreaming.htm

The important one was extracting the service pack files by running the
command

C:\folder\OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe /t:c:\OfficeXPSP3 /c

where folder is the actual path.

Then, when I was prompted to find mainsp3ff.msp by Office Setup, I navigated
to the folder C:\OfficeXPSP3 and selected it.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP