Re: I get an error message when setting up office 97

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in:

> MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
> HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.
>
> If you're not going to use the web page features you
> can do a custom install and choose to not install the
> Web Authoring tools or use the following technique

One problem with that is you cannot update Office 97, RS2 in particular
won't install.

> (not a MS supported one)
>
> to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
> in this registry key
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options
>
> from .ocx to .old
>
> This article has information on modifying the registry
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

For some reason that doesn't work on all computers and mine is one of
them, I tried it quite some time back and found it didn't make a bit of
difference, I still couldn't install Office 97 and wound up having to
install Office XP in order to have Office installed with all the
features I wanted.

One other work around is to remove SP2, install Office and update it
and then re-install SP2 but, personally, I think the only guaranteed
fix for all computers is to get a newer version of Office, either MSFT
or OO.


--
David R. Norton MVP
<d_r_norton@xxxxxxxxx>
.

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