Re: Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Trial Wont install on Vista Hom



Congratulations - you have now advised the OP to turn off all user level security so that installing ONE program will maybe work.

The problem with Vista's UAC is users who are too lazy to click on the prompts after reading and understanding them.

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After furious head scratching, Tommy asked:

| Go to User Accounts in control panel and turn off user controls.
| Vista has a major problem with this feature. It also is the solution
| to many downloading problems.
|
| "makaiman" wrote:
|
|| I recently bought a new notebook without any Microsoft Trial
|| versions on it. It is an Acer top of the line notebook. So, I
|| downloaded the trial version of Microsoft Office Professional 2007
|| which contains two downloads. The first download which is the main
|| big package (388 megs) won't install.
||
|| It says, "The installation of this package failed". I've tried
|| multiple times, have shut off everything with security and still get
|| the same thing including downloading it again and trying again.
||
|| Microsoft says they won't give any support to trial versions, and
|| Acer says call Microsoft. So I can't evaluate the product. What is
|| wrong here? What do I need to do? I've no office and I'm not going
|| to buy the product until I evaluate it. This is nuts. Hope someone
|| can offer help. The OS is Vista Home Premium....
.



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