Re: Reinstall office on new disk

From: Miss Perspicacia Tick (noone_at_here.com)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:50:21 -0000

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
> Miss Perspicacia Tick wrote:
>> fishie wrote:
>>> A friend of mine got a new hard disk and the old one was configured
>>> at drive D: with its contents still intact, including Office 97,
>>> which came bundled with the computer when she bought it. She wants
>>> to get Office running again, but doesn't have the CD - either it's
>>> lost or the place that sold her the machine originally never gave
>>> her the disk.
>>> Is there any way to reactivate the installation without the CD?
>>
>>
>> Two choices: -
>>
>> 1) Visit the new drive manufacturer's website and download their
>> cloning tool
>
> (Acronis TrueImage is swell stuff, btw)

Whaddya think I use? You think an ardent hater of Symantec would use Ghost?!
;o)

>> or
>>
>> 2) Buy Office again.
>
> ....and in addition, Office 97 is to Office 2003 as an Edsel is to a
> Ford Explorer. Office 97 is ancient and is no longer supported. Your
> friend should shell out the cash for Office 2003....if she had the
> CD, or could image/clone, she could buy the upgrade version -
> however, it would be impossible to use that if she then got a new
> computer & had no 'qualifying media' to point the upgrade setup to.
> Of course, she can't run Office 2003 if she's not running Windows
> 2000 SP3 or WinXP as her desktop OS. Which I'd recommend anyway.
>
>>
>> You cannot just copy files across - Office scatters itself across the
>> disk and creates many thousands of registry entries.
>
> Ayuh. One of the things I like about most Mac software is that you
> can just copy the folder to the location of your choice upon whim.
> The Windows registry sounded like a swell thing when I first started
> using it, but over the years I have come to miss .ini files. :)

Oh don't I know it. A very good friend of mine (someone with whom I'd like
to be more than just friends, but I won't go into that now) had a right go
at me when I bought another PC (better the devil you know...). I've not used
a Mac since the Apple II (how long ago was that - 20 years?) I don't know
about Mac Office though (which my friend was forced into buying by his wife)
as I've never used it. The Mac OS probably doesn't have anything like the
registry. 

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