Irritated now, Office wont update!

[Tom]

I have my office cd of Office XP, allowed to install it at home(told this by
3 people) so it's installed and now I try and update it since SP2 and it's
giving me a stupid error during installation claiming my CD is not the right
one or something. Grrr. Anyone know what this is? I only have the one Office
CD(its retail). I had this problem with SP2 I'm almost to my limit with MS
anti-piracy crap, especially when it starts affecting me and stopping me
from updating legit software. I'm just about to scrap office and go with a
3rd party solution, better or worse at least I wont have to deal with this
anymore. Someone told me that I need some kind of Administrator release of
service pack, god knows where that is... I really have lost the desire to
search through MS for this.. anyhow, if anyone knows, appreciate it. Come
the end of the week I'll go with Corel office or something cuz I really have
had it with this anti-piracy stuff. I spend so much damn money on software
this is really a slap in the face.

Thanks in advance.
Tom

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Visit the Office experts in the appropriate Office newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.office.setup

Description of Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;832671&Product=offxp

Setup Prompts for CD When CD Is in the Drive
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290304&Product=offxp

"Please Insert the Disk" Message Appears When CD Is Inserted During Installation
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297894&Product=offxp

Why Service Packs, Updates, and Security Patches May Require the Office XP CD-ROM
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828451&Product=offxp

Description of Microsoft Product Activation
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302806&Product=offxp

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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"Tom" (e-mail address removed) wrote in message:

|I have my office cd of Office XP, allowed to install it at home(told this by
| 3 people) so it's installed and now I try and update it since SP2 and it's
| giving me a stupid error during installation claiming my CD is not the right
| one or something. Grrr. Anyone know what this is? I only have the one Office
| CD(its retail). I had this problem with SP2 I'm almost to my limit with MS
| anti-piracy crap, especially when it starts affecting me and stopping me
| from updating legit software. I'm just about to scrap office and go with a
| 3rd party solution, better or worse at least I wont have to deal with this
| anymore. Someone told me that I need some kind of Administrator release of
| service pack, god knows where that is... I really have lost the desire to
| search through MS for this.. anyhow, if anyone knows, appreciate it. Come
| the end of the week I'll go with Corel office or something cuz I really have
| had it with this anti-piracy stuff. I spend so much damn money on software
| this is really a slap in the face.
|
| Thanks in advance.
| Tom

 

[George]

Try posting this to the office community they will be
able to help you

 

[Tom]

Thanks, already looked at all that. This is the cd i installed from and this
is the 3rd time I have to remove and re-install Office. But as you did point
out, I'm in the wrong newsgroup.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[Hilary Karp]

I have used the WordPerfect Office suite since the dos days. Like it
much better than MS Office..so if you are serious about leaving MS, this
is one to try.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have my office cd of Office XP, allowed to install it at home(told this by
3 people) so it's installed and now I try and update it since SP2 and it's
giving me a stupid error during installation claiming my CD is not the right
one or something. Grrr. Anyone know what this is? I only have the one Office
CD(its retail).

Which specific version of Office is this? Both Office 2000 and Office
XP are now at an SP3, not SP2. The download for Office XP SP3 is at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...fd-6f69-4289-8bd1-eb966bcdfb5e&displaylang=en

This site has both a 'clent' version or 16 MB that needs the CD from
which it was set up, and a 'Full' one, 58 MB, that does not

Note that the license for an additional install of Office is not quite
as you seem to imply: A retail version is licensed to a desktop machine
and to a laptop that is the personal property of the owner/user of the
desktop one.