Re: Reinstall office on new disk

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:33:03 -0500

Miss Perspicacia Tick wrote:
> 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)

Ach, well, ye might, rabbit, ye might.

<twirls nightstick, scowls>
>
>
>>> 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.