Fixed one problem, now another -- current user notification

[Guest]

I fixed one problem (thanks, Jay), but now when I click on my Word 2003 icon,
it opens and gives me this notice: Microsoft Office has not been installed
for the current user. Please run set up to install the application."

Not normally a problem, except my MS CD is in a box somewhere among 100
other boxes. How do I get the program to recognize me, now that I am noted as
a different user and can no longer find my old user name (I had to do a
recovery)?

rich

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Rich:

I think you have recovered the application directory but not the user
registry. The application therefore "hasn't" been installed and the only
way around that is to either recover the registry or re-install.

*I* would not recover the registry even if I could: it nearly always means
trouble with that computer for ever more.

The other possibility is that the user ID you are logging on with is not the
Administrator. Login as Administrator and see if Word works then. If it
does, elevate your normal user id to Administrator, then log off (you must
not switch users with Administrator logged in) and start Word from your
normal user ID. It should start and install itself this time.

Then log out and go back to Administrator and put your user id back to
normal.

Cheers

I fixed one problem (thanks, Jay), but now when I click on my Word 2003 icon,
it opens and gives me this notice: Microsoft Office has not been installed
for the current user. Please run set up to install the application."

Not normally a problem, except my MS CD is in a box somewhere among 100
other boxes. How do I get the program to recognize me, now that I am noted as
a different user and can no longer find my old user name (I had to do a
recovery)?

rich

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Guest]

I can not seem to log in as the administrator. I have only one user listed,
called on my screen "Owner." When I "switch users" I still see only one user
.. . . Owner. How can I find the administrator user?

rich

Hi Rich:

I think you have recovered the application directory but not the user
registry. The application therefore "hasn't" been installed and the only
way around that is to either recover the registry or re-install.

*I* would not recover the registry even if I could: it nearly always means
trouble with that computer for ever more.

The other possibility is that the user ID you are logging on with is not the
Administrator. Login as Administrator and see if Word works then. If it
does, elevate your normal user id to Administrator, then log off (you must
not switch users with Administrator logged in) and start Word from your
normal user ID. It should start and install itself this time.

Then log out and go back to Administrator and put your user id back to
normal.

Cheers

I fixed one problem (thanks, Jay), but now when I click on my Word 2003 icon,
it opens and gives me this notice: Microsoft Office has not been installed
for the current user. Please run set up to install the application."

Not normally a problem, except my MS CD is in a box somewhere among 100
other boxes. How do I get the program to recognize me, now that I am noted as
a different user and can no longer find my old user name (I had to do a
recovery)?

rich

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Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

If you're using Windows XP Home, the Administrator user is disabled. In
which case, this is not your problem.

If you are using Windows XP Pro or above, get to the Welcome screen and hit
Ctrl + Alt + Delete twice to bring up the login prompt.

Then type "Administrator" as the user name and the password. If you don't
know the password, you're outta luck: the only way around that is to
reformat the drive.

But what I think has happened is that you have recovered the application
directory but not the registry. In which case, the application has "not"
been installed. Sorry, you need to dig out those disks

Cheers

I can not seem to log in as the administrator. I have only one user listed,
called on my screen "Owner." When I "switch users" I still see only one user
. . . Owner. How can I find the administrator user?


rich

Hi Rich:

I think you have recovered the application directory but not the user
registry. The application therefore "hasn't" been installed and the only
way around that is to either recover the registry or re-install.

*I* would not recover the registry even if I could: it nearly always means
trouble with that computer for ever more.

The other possibility is that the user ID you are logging on with is not the
Administrator. Login as Administrator and see if Word works then. If it
does, elevate your normal user id to Administrator, then log off (you must
not switch users with Administrator logged in) and start Word from your
normal user ID. It should start and install itself this time.

Then log out and go back to Administrator and put your user id back to
normal.

Cheers

I fixed one problem (thanks, Jay), but now when I click on my Word 2003
icon,
it opens and gives me this notice: Microsoft Office has not been installed
for the current user. Please run set up to install the application."

Not normally a problem, except my MS CD is in a box somewhere among 100
other boxes. How do I get the program to recognize me, now that I am noted
as
a different user and can no longer find my old user name (I had to do a
recovery)?

rich

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Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410