MS Office on Vista

[Guest]

HELP!!!
I recently upgraded from Windows XP to Vista Home Premium. I installed
Vista on my "D" drive since I did not have enough room on "C." This is ok
and things installed fine. However I cannot run Microsoft Office
applications under Vista since I keep getting the message "Operating system
in not configured to run this applications." I have since learned I have to
re-install Office 2003 under Vista. This is an inconvenience since both are
Microsoft products. My questions are as follows:

a) Can I re-install Office on drive D even though the original installation
was on drive C or do I have to un-install the original version first.

b) Most importantly, are there any files I can copy to save my Outlook
configuration and e-mails. I use outlook as my main instrument for e-mails
and it receives and sends through my ISP. I have also saved e-mails in
Outlook folders and I would hate to lose these.

This is a major inconvenience. However, since I still have XP on my C
drive, I have access to running both operating systems and Office works just
fine under XP.

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[Sascha Jazbec]

If you install an Operating System on a empty partition ( clean install )
that is not containing an earlier OS with programs, of course you have to
reinstall whatever you intend to use.

That is not Microsoft's fault nor yours - that's the way it has always
been."New from scratch" , best way to avoid problems.

If you have Office installed on XP and you have only one license for Office,
then you must deinstall it in your XP first or it wont activate later on
Vista .

Check that out before, otherwise Office Genuine Check will tell you in Vista
that you are using a pirated Office Copy.

Good news for you that Office 2003 ( always with latest ServicePack of
course ) is fully supported on Vista while XP/2000 and earlier *can* cause
troubles.

SJ/Germany

 

[Cymbal Man Freq.]

You'd think UAC would give us a nag screen stating this before installation of
Vista Upgrade continues.


| If you install an Operating System on a empty partition ( clean install )
| that is not containing an earlier OS with programs, of course you have to
| reinstall whatever you intend to use.
|
| That is not Microsoft's fault nor yours - that's the way it has always
| been."New from scratch" , best way to avoid problems.
|
| If you have Office installed on XP and you have only one license for Office,
| then you must deinstall it in your XP first or it wont activate later on
| Vista .
|
| Check that out before, otherwise Office Genuine Check will tell you in Vista
| that you are using a pirated Office Copy.
|
| Good news for you that Office 2003 ( always with latest ServicePack of
| course ) is fully supported on Vista while XP/2000 and earlier *can* cause
| troubles.
|
| SJ/Germany
|
|
| | > HELP!!!
| > I recently upgraded from Windows XP to Vista Home Premium. I installed
| > Vista on my "D" drive since I did not have enough room on "C." This is ok
| > and things installed fine. However I cannot run Microsoft Office
| > applications under Vista since I keep getting the message "Operating
| > system
| > in not configured to run this applications." I have since learned I have
| > to
| > re-install Office 2003 under Vista. This is an inconvenience since both
| > are
| > Microsoft products. My questions are as follows:
| >
| > a) Can I re-install Office on drive D even though the original
| > installation
| > was on drive C or do I have to un-install the original version first.
| >
| > b) Most importantly, are there any files I can copy to save my Outlook
| > configuration and e-mails. I use outlook as my main instrument for
| > e-mails
| > and it receives and sends through my ISP. I have also saved e-mails in
| > Outlook folders and I would hate to lose these.
| >
| > This is a major inconvenience. However, since I still have XP on my C
| > drive, I have access to running both operating systems and Office works
| > just
| > fine under XP.
| >
| > Thanks for any help you can give.
|

 

[MICHAEL]

Check that out before, otherwise Office Genuine Check will tell you in Vista that you are

using a pirated Office Copy.

Wrong.

If Jim does not have Office 2003 installed on another computer-
he will be able to install, activate, and pass the genuine check
just fine if he puts Office 2003 on Vista. *And* keep Office 2003
on the XP partition.


-Michael

 

[MICHAEL]

Jim,

If your copy of Office 2003 is not an OEM copy, you will be
fine to install it on Vista, too. While keeping Office 2003 on your
XP partition.

Technically, the Office EULA says one desktop and
one laptop/portable device.

In this circumstance, the EULA is crap.
Especially, for you and having it on two separate partitions-
there's no way both copies could be used at the same time,
so I don't see Microsoft would give a dam.


-Michael

 

[jonah]

Jim,

If your copy of Office 2003 is not an OEM copy, you will be
fine to install it on Vista, too. While keeping Office 2003 on your
XP partition.

Technically, the Office EULA says one desktop and
one laptop/portable device.

In this circumstance, the EULA is crap.
Especially, for you and having it on two separate partitions-
there's no way both copies could be used at the same time,
so I don't see Microsoft would give a dam.


-Michael

was there not a thing where MSFT allowed the use of a single copy of
office on a desktop and a latop or something like that?

Jonah

 

[MICHAEL]

was there not a thing where MSFT allowed the use of a single copy of
office on a desktop and a latop or something like that?

Jonah,

That's what I said.


-Michael