Install Office 97 on Win 2000 computer

Install as Administrator. Users may have to be set up as Power Users.
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I've done this as follows:

1. Install Windows 2000
2. Instal Windows 2000 SP2
3. Install Office 97 as administrator
4. Install Office 97 SP1

See the microsoft support/download site for service packs.

In the past I've always added the user to the local admins, installed any software they need, configured it then removed them from the local admin group. With Office 97 this gave minimal problems (if there were none you'd think something was wrong!) but moving to Office 2000 gave some problems with the install on first use settings.

Gavin

I install it as administrator and it works fine. The only problem I had, was when the user tried to use it and this may be your problem. I don't have any users with administrative rights. I had them set up as plan users. This caused the problem andthe could not do everything they needed to do, spell check, etc. I switched them to a power user and it fixed the problems.

I also would check to make sure that it installed in the right directory. Mine is - C:\documents and Settings\All Users.WINNT.

I hope this helps.

Russell Harris

I give the user local admin rights.
Have him install it.
Remove the admin rights
It works perfect.

Install Office 97 as an administrator. Grant full control to the following key in the registry
\HK_local_machine\Software\Microsoft\Office.

All users will be able to execute the office suite.

1. Install Windows 2000
2. Instal Windows 2000 SP2
3. Install Office 97 as administrator
4. Install Office 97 SP1

We have multiple computers with both Windows 2000 , Office 97 Pro and Office 2000 Pro all running together.

I also had major difficulties, but found that following the path below gave me the most stable systems.

(1) Install Windows 2000
(2) Install *all* service packs for W2K (using Windows Update)
(3) Login to the pc/network as the user (the user should be a normal poweruser).
(4) Install Office 97 (when prompted install the package as the administrator). Install to different directory i.e. Microsoft Office97.
(5) Reboot the PC.
(6) Install Office 97 SP2 and reboot the PC.

After that if you need to install Office 2000
install it to a seperate directory i.e. Microsoft Office2K, and the two should coexist ok.

The only problems I have found with Office97 and W2K is that quite often, Office slows down to a crawl. I think its because of COM+ but I haven't been able to prove that yet.

Hope that is of some help!

If you install Office97 by itself you should have no problems if the program is not shared. I have setup 10 computers like this with no problem. But they have no shared drives to start with. But if you share drives and its not a workstation then
I install it as administrator and it works fine. The only problem I had, was when the user tried to use it and when they tryed accessing other office programs on the network. I don't have any users with administrative rights. I had them set up as plan users. This caused the problem and the could not do everything they needed to do, spell check. I set the users up with admin. rights on thier work station, with restrictions and set office to run on local machine.

The previous answers have given good insight into your issue...I agree that you should install and patch your OS to the current standards then install your application software.

I also wanted to offer a word of advice regarding Office 97. There have been several new vulnerabilities discovered in Office software and MS has stated they will not be offering a fix for this in "legacy" versions of Office (including Office 97). Due to this issue (and others that are sure to follow) I would recommend you make every effort to upgrade Office at the earliest opportunity. We are in the process of doing the same thing ourselves. It will be costly, but I do anticipate improvments in performance, and of course, in support. If your present financial/political situation requires you forge on with Office 97, I highly recommend you keep an eye on Bugtraq etc and keep your users and management informed.

Take a look here for an example of what I mean:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_669847.html?menu=news.technology

http://www.theregus.com/content/4/26305.html

Good luck!

install office 97 as administrator. If you have concerns, add domain users to the local admin group. Or give them read/write access to programfiles and the registry using regedt32.exe

All answers to your question are really really good answers and fixes the problem(s) you have regarding Office 97. However in a Domain Name sever setup providing programs and services to many clients, publishing and advertising programs for installation onto client computers using Veritas or Systems Management Server relieves many of the headaches and admin problems posted by others where you give admin rights to users then have to remove those rights later after a user installs a program. Using SMS server or Veriitas and creating intall packages for clients then advertise them them via Add/Remove programs feature in the control panel, or publish them (users are required to install the program at next logon) is a secure,controllable way to provide applications are on client computers. With SMS you can monitor what applications are actually on client computers, and know which computers service packs, security updates, and additional options have been or have not been installed. A great network admin service tool for managing client computers on a network without having to leave the office and the much beloved coffee and Zanax.

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