Where Publisher 2000 Installs?

[Jim Pinkham]

During a recent hard drive restore from image, I apparently overwrote part of
the drive where Publisher was installed. Because I have Office 2003 for Word,
Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint, I deliberately installed Publisher 2000 on a
different drive, my N:\ drive, hoping to minimize any confusion or conflict.
Those N:\files are intact, but I suspect Publisher 2000 also placed some
files on my main partition, my C:\ drive. My questions: Where exactly would
those files have been installed and which specific files or folders do I need
to restore to get Publisher up and running again?

I have other images from which I can restore the Publisher files once I have
this information. Thanks for any help you can offer.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

You probably should have installed Pub 2000 first, then Office 2003.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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[Ed Bennett]

During a recent hard drive restore from image, I apparently overwrote part of
the drive where Publisher was installed. Because I have Office 2003 for Word,
Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint, I deliberately installed Publisher 2000 on a
different drive, my N:\ drive, hoping to minimize any confusion or conflict.
Those N:\files are intact, but I suspect Publisher 2000 also placed some
files on my main partition, my C:\ drive. My questions: Where exactly would
those files have been installed and which specific files or folders do I need
to restore to get Publisher up and running again?

Publisher may have put some files in C:\Program Files\Common Files.

The main problem, however, is that Publisher Setup creates a lot of
stuff in the Windows Registry that is required for Publisher to run
properly. This can only be recreated properly by rerunning Publisher
Setup from your media.

Publisher 2000 is now out of support, so Microsoft are not supplying
replacement media.

I suggest either trying eBay or locating a backup copy of a Publisher
2000 disc.

Note that Publisher 2000 can be installed just fine on the same drive as
Office 2003. Many recommend installing them in separate folders, though.

 

[Jim Pinkham]

This is helpful, Ed, and I appreciate it. Any chance that running one of the
Office 2000 SR updates will also address the registry issue?

 

[Ed Bennett]

This is helpful, Ed, and I appreciate it. Any chance that running one of the
Office 2000 SR updates will also address the registry issue?

I doubt it, as SR-1, SR-2 and SP3 will all check the registry to find if
and where Publisher is installed so they can patch it.