My PC trys to load Office XP Professional with Frontpage

[John Pearson]

Hello, I use XP Home Edition on my laptop. About 5
months ago my Windows Installer program started popping
up to try and load Microsoft Office XP Professional with
Frontpage. It does this when my computer is turned on or
when I click on Microsoft Office program icons like
PowerPoint, Excel, Word, or Outlook. Has anybody else
had this happen to them and if so how do you get it to
stop. Its annoying to have Windows Installer keep trying
to ask for the XP Professional CD to be loaded when I
don't even want that operating system on my PC. Please
help, thank you.

 

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i had that but dont know what to do
sorry

 

[Mark Weinreb]

Hello, I use XP Home Edition on my laptop. About 5
months ago my Windows Installer program started popping
up to try and load Microsoft Office XP Professional with
Frontpage. It does this when my computer is turned on or
when I click on Microsoft Office program icons like
PowerPoint, Excel, Word, or Outlook. Has anybody else
had this happen to them and if so how do you get it to
stop. Its annoying to have Windows Installer keep trying
to ask for the XP Professional CD to be loaded when I
don't even want that operating system on my PC. Please
help, thank you.

You seem to be somewhat confused. The installer isn't asking for the Windows
XP Professional CD, it's asking for the Office XP Professional CD in order
to finish installing the Office applications you're trying to use.

Here's a suggestion: next time it asks for the Office XP Professional with
FrontPage CD, put it in the drive and click OK.

 

[John Pearson]

You say to load the CD. I don't even have the CD that
says Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage. I
never bought it. I don't want it. I just want to use
the Home Edition version that came with my laptop.
Everything was great until 5 months and then Windows
Installer decided to get a mind of its own. It may want
me to load it but I never did anything to initiate it.
The only CD's I have ever put in my machine are blanks to
record music on. None of this makes sense. When I said
Windows Office XP Professional I meant to say Microsoft
Office XP Professional, sorry about that. I don't know
how to get rid of this windows installer message when I
don't even have the CD for Office XP Professional.

 

[Dana]

Your problem is sort of bizarre, John. But one thing: you actually do have
Office (a set of applications, not an O/S), if you have icons for all those
apps like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc. So, office must have come preloaded,
if you have those individual programs. And what I think MAY have happened is
that some file from Office got corrupted or deleted, and when you go to use
a program in Office, the absence of this program is noted and so Office is
asking you for the CD, using is limited vocabulary.
Questions:
-Can you use the applications in Office, or not?
-If not, you won't be able to unless you get a replacement disk. (not sure
if you can or not, call MS)
-If you can use the applications, getting the disk is probably the only way
to get rid of the message, as well.