MS Office (10) 2000 and Win 7

Just built a new rig, and I have a copy of MS office Professional with Front Page aka known as MSOFFICE10 with key.

Intel core i5 4690 3.5 ghz quad core
Gigabyte GA Z97X lga 1150 board
G skill ripjaws 16gb ddr3 2133mhz
Corsair H80i liquid cooler
XFX Radeon r9 280x 3gb

Installed win7 and performed all updates. Installed MSOffice. Went to go to the start menu and click on the Excel icon and I get a dialogue box saying "Preparing to install" after a few seconds it says "please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office PX Professional with FrontPage"

It does this a view times, the box disappears, and the program doesn't fire up. I go into windows explorer and find the Excel.exe file. Click on it and a dialogue box says "Microsoft Excel is not installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application."

I installed it under under my account name.
After reading a few potential fixes, I did type in the command box to activate the "secret" administrator account Microsoft runs in the background. That now shows up alongside my account on the startup screen.

If I try to click on a xls file I get a box saying "fatal error during installation"

I have a Dell system at work which I run this same cd key for MS Word and it runs fine. There is no need for online activation as it has a static reg key. I have another XP machine that runs it as well.

The only difference I can think of is that I did not do Windows update before I installed on the machine at work. I did do that here at home where I am having the problem. Could an update to win7 (there was 127 of them) be creating a problem not allowing it to install properly?

thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

 

I ran event viewer and got this...

Detection of product '{90280409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0050048383C9}', feature 'EXCELFiles' failed during request for component '{5572D282-F5E5-11D3-A8E8-0060083FD8D3}'

 

jmacintosh...

This thread may have some good things to try if you haven't seen it yet:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...ont-open/56b7c05a-9fb3-494d-9fc1-551ca3a4b4b0

 

I attempted several methods to fix it and nothing worked. Earlier, I mentioned that i do not recall doing all of the Windows Updates prior to installing office on my machine at work. So for the heck of it, since this is a new rig, I just wiped again and reformatted. DID NOT do the Windows Updates yet, and installed my drivers first, then MSOffice. Everything seems to load up fine now. I will give it a full test tomorrow. Then I will one by one, do the windows updates to see which one might give me trouble.

 

Well, glad you were able to get it running. :-D Hopefully, you won't run into any snags, but, if you do, you can always post back right here.

Especially, please post back what you find in case someone else runs across a similar problem...

 

I have the feeling that there is a windows update in there somewhere that creates problems for the 32 bit install of MSOffice.

When I do the updates. I will have to create a restore point to be safe, and do each update one at a time until I see one that duplicates the problem. It would appear the problem was with the install of the program, and not necessarily the running of the program itself. If I went to use a Excel or Doc, file or something like a browser that would generate an XLS file, it would give me a bunch of errors.

 

I rather doubt that this is anything to do with Win 7 updates but rather is that Office 2000 is simply incompatible with Win 7. There is however in Win 7 a compatibility mode, which allows you to ask Win 7 to run a program in a mode compatible with an earlier version of Windows. To use this feature you need to right click the executable, such as Excel.exe, click Properties, and click the Compatibility tab.

I haven't had much joy with this but I do believe it may be your only hope.

 

Earthling, I wish I could say the compatibility mode is what did it. It wasn't used in either machine. I simply did a format, fresh install of Win7 64-bit, update video audio and network drivers, then installed MSOffice.

The correlation regarding the updates is because I had a similar experience with XP, where after installing SP3 certain titles wouldn't run properly and crash. Just made me think that there were vulnerabilities that were addressed that somehow weren't backwards compatible.

Or, for some reason, the install got borked the first time, and starting from scratch made it right.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is a Windows Update that will make it fail. But I think the issue is with the install, the program firing off, and something within the registry that isn't agreeing.

 

Computers eh :-D

Pleased it's Ok anyway.

 

Gremlins!