I set up Office 2000 Pro on a W2K Pro/SP3 laptop for a user. The user will have this laptop offsite at a client's office. When I installed Office, I ran it from a network drive, chose the "Customize" option and told it to "Run All From My Computer." I have also applied SR-1 and SP3 for Office. Why does it still look for the installation source when a new user tries to start Word, Excel, etc? I assumed "Run All from My Computer" meant exactly that.
That's one of the annoying features of Office, you install "everything" then try to use something and it tells you "it's not installed would you like to install it?"
I get around this by copying the CD to a folder on the HDD and running the install from there, with todays large drives it's not usually a space probelm and it will never prompt you for the CD again.
Ok, I removed Office from another machine that's having the same problem and re-installed from the CD. It asked for the CD when installing SR-1 and also SP3. It still wants the CD when any other user besides the one Office was installed under logs in and attempts to start Office. I could copy the CD to the hard drive but that's a last restort. I don't think I should have to do that.
You can think what you like but that doesn't change reality, copying to the HDD is the fastest, easiest method I know of. If you have the drive space why worry about it?
It seems SR-1 is the cause of this. If I don't install that, it never asks for the CD or the network source. The Windows Installer still comes up but it finds whatever it needs and starts the app right away.
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