Upgrade to Office Pro 2003

[Frank]

I have Windows/XP and was running with Office/XP with
Frontpage. I just installed the new Office Pro 2003 and
everything seems to have installed correctly. I got the
activation screen the first time I tried to use the
package and then registered.
When I tried to check for updates I received an error
stating that my old version was not valid? It was, but it
was a corporate version of Office/XP with Frontpage.
Now whenever I try to open Outlook, I get the "preparing
to install" dialog box and if I don't have the Office/XP
CD in a drive, it asks for it. If I have the CD in the
drive, it runs for a bit and then the program opens fine.
If I try to go to my INBOX, I get the "preparing to
install" dialog box again and this happens for EVERY mail
message in my inbox?
Does anyone know what is happening here and how I might
fix this?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Frank

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

One specific "Corporate version of Office was widely pirated - the one that
asks for the proplus.msi when doing updates.

I guess that Microsoft finally got around to addressing that issue after
they took care of the corpfiles.zip of Windows XP Professional that was also
widely pirated.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer:
Frank <[email protected]> asked:
| I have Windows/XP and was running with Office/XP with
| Frontpage. I just installed the new Office Pro 2003 and
| everything seems to have installed correctly. I got the
| activation screen the first time I tried to use the
| package and then registered.
| When I tried to check for updates I received an error
| stating that my old version was not valid? It was, but it
| was a corporate version of Office/XP with Frontpage.
| Now whenever I try to open Outlook, I get the "preparing
| to install" dialog box and if I don't have the Office/XP
| CD in a drive, it asks for it. If I have the CD in the
| drive, it runs for a bit and then the program opens fine.
| If I try to go to my INBOX, I get the "preparing to
| install" dialog box again and this happens for EVERY mail
| message in my inbox?
| Does anyone know what is happening here and how I might
| fix this?
| Thanks in advance for your help.
|
| Frank