Should Office 2000 be installed before XP SP1?

[Lori Ann Kuiper]

After a clean install of Windows XP Professional, is it better to install
Office 2000 before updating XP to XP SP1 or after? I have heard from some
people who tried to install Office after the update that they had error
messages and could not get Office 2000 to install properly?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

The people who had problems were, in the vast majority, those who had a
pirated key that was widely available on the Internet and had the software
disabled after starting Office 2000 with SP-1.

If you have a legitimately acquired installation key, then you should be
okay to install either before or after. If you had installed SP-1 once
before and the software worked, it should work again on your new
installation.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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Lori Ann Kuiper <[email protected]> typed:
| After a clean install of Windows XP Professional, is it better to
| install Office 2000 before updating XP to XP SP1 or after? I have
| heard from some people who tried to install Office after the update
| that they had error messages and could not get Office 2000 to install
| properly?