Re: office xp CD missing

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Update:

Inspection of the Event Log gleaned the information that Excel failed to
find 'XLStart', and it turned out that simply adding an XLStart folder to
the Office\ and Office10\ folders list, immediately created the personal
XLStart folders for each user, and enabled Excel to update to SP3 with the
other programmes.

Having said this, running the Office Update from scratch still gets stuck at
'where's PRO.MSI', but at least the major components now seem to be working.

Regards,
SteveH


"Steve Hawkins" <steve.a.hawkins@ntl(nospam)world.com> wrote in message
news:%23TDve793FHA.3256@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Dear Ramos,
>
> Glad to hear you managed to find a way round your update problem.
> Can you share the solution with the rest of us as I have a similar problem
> with no discs and getting as far as 'PRO.MSI' before the update fails.
>
> Inspection of the 'About xxx' information for the individual Office
> programmes, shows they are all 'SP3' after this 'failure', except for
> Excel.
>
> Excel will not open without setting off the 'Installing.....PRO.MSI' fun
> and games - as was the case when we tried to update to SP2, and had to
> give up. We get around it by fishing out the old Excel.exe and putting a
> link on the desk top, but obviously would prefer the proper update if it
> is possible.
>
> How did you do it?
>
> Regards,
> SteveH
>
> "ramos" <ramos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:87FCB3E0-39C5-47ED-8CEB-6672DE8BFBE8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I didn't say I downloaded the software.
>> I bought it from thier website but i didn't download it.
>> By the way, I already solved the problem this morning
>> thanks to a microsoft tech support guy.
>> Thanks God I don't have to read your stupid answers any more.
>>
>> "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
>>
>>> Microsoft never makes their Office software available for download. My
>>> original statement stands.
>>>
>>> --?
>>> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>>>
>>> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
>>> unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
>>> reading.
>>>
>>> After furious head scratching, ramos asked:
>>>
>>> | For your Info I never said it was a pirate software. I got the CD
>>> | from microsoft website, So I don't think they sold me a pirate
>>> | software.
>>> |
>>> | "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
>>> |
>>> || They will not help with pirated software.
>>> ||
>>> || --Â?
>>> || Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>>> ||
>>> || Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
>>> || unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
>>> || reading.
>>> ||
>>> || After furious head scratching, ramos asked:
>>> ||
>>> ||| I guess I have to call microsoft tech support and see if they can
>>> ||| help me out. Thanks milly staples.
>>> |||
>>> |||
>>> ||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
>>> |||
>>> |||| Purchase a legal version of Office 2003.
>>> ||||
>>> |||| --Ã,Â?
>>> |||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>>> ||||
>>> |||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
>>> |||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
>>> |||| without reading.
>>> ||||
>>> |||| After furious head scratching, ramos asked:
>>> ||||
>>> ||||| Thank you Milly Staples:
>>> ||||| I wish I could do that , but I'm a self-employed.
>>> ||||| What else could I do?
>>> |||||
>>> |||||
>>> ||||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
>>> |||||
>>> |||||| Office XP Professional with FrontPage is an Enterprise only
>>> |||||| edition of Microsoft Office - ask your employer to replace the
>>> |||||| disk for you.
>>> ||||||
>>> |||||| --Ãfâ?sÃ,Â?
>>> |||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>>> ||||||
>>> |||||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
>>> |||||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
>>> |||||| without reading.
>>> ||||||
>>> |||||| After furious head scratching, ramos asked:
>>> ||||||
>>> ||||||| I lost my Office xp cd, Now I can't update .
>>> ||||||| I'm trying to update office xp sp3 but it asking me for
>>> ||||||| the Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage cd
>>> ||||||| or "PROPLUS.MSI".
>>> |||||||
>>> ||||||| How can I update office xp witout the cd?
>>> ||||||| THank you
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>


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