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Opening MS Word 2000

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by rmattern

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I installed MS Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 operating system. Now every time I open MS Word it tells me that the system is configuring the setup please wait. This takes about a minute or 2 once completed I can use word with no problem once in theprogram it is just every time I start the program. All the other programs work fine, I tried uninstalling and re-installing with the same result any help would be appreciated.

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by mikki

I run MS Office 2000 on all my Win 2K operating systems. I have found that I run into that error message when I don't do a custom install. Try uninstalling & when you reinstall tell it you want to do a custom set up. Allow it to put it where it wants on the hard drive then when it asks how you want to install each program, left click on the top option & tell it to run all from computer. That should help.

by banu

Ms Word like any other program contains other files that are used in conjuction with the core files. E.g the Ms Word needs the the printer drivers to be restored whenever the user requires to use it. Same case applies to the restoration of other programs that the application might use therein like Excel etc thus the it has to scatter all this files. There is no problem with your Ms Word.

by dreamboat

This is a very common problem with Word IF YOU STILL HAVE another version of Word or Office, such as 97 installed.

If running 97 and 2000, 2000 should have been installed to some OTHER directory, and NOT the default of 97. I have 97, 2000, and XPand they are installed to C:\Office97, C:\Office00, and C:\Office02

Even if you have this setup and you run, for instance, Word 97, the next time you run 2000, it will do that little install bit that you're experiencing. Some people get this and don't even notice that they're actually running two versions. You can search your hard drive for winword.exe and see if you have more than one.

Also, I have been able to perfectly run Word by hitting cancel when it runs that installation process. It tells you that things may not work properly, but all is well.

Please let us know if none of the answers help.

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