Re: Office 97 on Windows XP PC

From: Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] (MillyS_at_donteventhinkaboutmailingmemvps.org)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:28:57 -0700

Office 97 runs fine on Windows XP. Log in (or run as) admin and make sure
you have your printer installed under that user account.

And what kind of "bug" would Microsoft need to fix for software that is from
1996 to run under an OS released several years later? Have you tried
running some Mac OS 9 (or earlier) programs under OS X? Have you also
complained to Apple about their incompatibilities?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Don asked:

| I am installing Office 97 on a new PC that has Windows XP
| as its operating system. The installation process goes
| without incident, however after it's finished and when I
| log on as a user (not as someone with admin rights), I
| cannot print anything from Office. Each time I try, I
| get the typical Microsoft error that goes something
| like, "Microsoft has detected a problem.....Send Error
| Report - Don't Send". Regardless of what I do, Office
| will then shut down and nothing prints.
| I can print fine when logged on as someone with Admin
| rights.
|
| Will Office 97 even run on an XP operating system or is
| this another "bug" in Microsoft's software.
|
| Thanx.

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