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Forum: Rants Topic: Teh Computer Still Fux0red. started by: editor Posted by editor on May 02 2002,20:18
In a nutshell,Upgraded to Win2K, and hated it. Upgraded to XP, like it. However, all of Office won't run. I can't uninstall 1.5 Gigs even using the Office disk. I can't run the XP Office disk either as an upgrade or a separate install behind the partition. At this point, my meager experience tells me to edit Office out of the registry and defrag and run a fresh install of Office XP. Mr Wiley is prolly the smartest MS guy I know... but he's sortof busy... If you have any time, which I doubt, would you accept 100$/hour? Meanwhile, maybe I'll try Eudora; gotta get the email back! 323 221 5129 Posted by just_dave on May 02 2002,20:53
Whats the computers excuse for not letting you uninstall office??dave? Posted by veistran on May 02 2002,21:32
blah, I'd just reformat.
Posted by editor on May 02 2002,21:37
To run Outlook, it asks for disk 2.To remove anything in Office, it asks for disk 2. Then it says the required file(s) are not on disk 2. Basically the same thing when I try to upgrade/install Office XP. Posted by Wiley on May 03 2002,02:17
This weekend ...1 week till the wedding so I got a few things going on, my sister's 30th tomorrow, my best man's 30th was last Sunday and I still owe him a night out and my future brother-in-law's b-day is this Sunday. Not that I'm making excuses, but this weekend aint looking so hot for me. Maybe Sunday afternoon? I have OfficeXP ...works great for me. I also found a Disk2 of Office2K.
Posted by editor on May 03 2002,03:06
I'm cautiously happy...I think it's back, the email that is. I got a tech here for 3.5 hours and he put the computer thru its paces! He loaded my bootleg xp office onto E drive and ran it from there. Turns out the bootleg had the right files but in the wrong folders. Same guy's Office Premium? Same story. But his Office 2000 worked! At least he got rid of that 1.5 dead Gigs. I have a *lot* of emails to tend to, except one had a virus and he suggested I run a full scan first; good idea. I was watching it, and I saw it linger on a very long file from Liquid Metal; guess what! That would be the copy of office xp he sent a few days ago! Three people couldn't find it on the puter; none of us know ICQ that well. That was a 12-hour download on DSL. No wonder the HD was full. Oh gawd, dare I run it? Maybe in a couple days. Thankyou Mr Wiley; from what you say, I think we can wait till after your umm, "fireworks" are finished! Thankyou again! Thank all youse guys! Hmm, maybe it's time for a gratuitous girlie picture! |