XP SP2 and Offce 2003 problem

[Harry Poorman]

I mentioned this in another post about XP Tablet, but I also notice this
same bug on a desktop. Has anyone run into a problem after installing sp2
on a machine that has Office 2003? Once installed, you can no longer use
Word as your Outlook Email editor. It give you a message that Word is not
the correct version.
Have noticed this on 2 seperate desktops as well as the table.
Any clue?

Harry Poorman
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Harry Poorman]

I haven't seen anything on it being affected by SP2. Do you know where you
might have seen it?

 

[Charlie]

I haven't seen anything on it being affected by SP2. Do you know where you
might have seen it?

Now that is very interesting 'cos I bookmarked the page at the beginning
of the and it indeed showed numerous MS products that may be scuttled by
SP2. The page in my bookmarks is called "884130 - Programs that may
behave differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2ed"
The link is
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884130&product=windowsxpsp2
and is now called "884130 - Programs that are known to experience a loss
of functionality when they run on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based
computer" . It now has only a couple of MS product in what is now a much
shorter list.


Charlie.
www.peartreegreen.org

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

I mentioned this in another post about XP Tablet, but I also notice
this same bug on a desktop. Has anyone run into a problem after
installing sp2 on a machine that has Office 2003? Once installed,
you can no longer use Word as your Outlook Email editor. It give you
a message that Word is not the correct version.
Have noticed this on 2 seperate desktops as well as the table.
Any clue?

Harry Poorman
(e-mail address removed)

It isn't a bug. It's something peculiar to your system. I have both Office
2003 and SP2 and Word works flawlessly as my email editor. Have you
installed Office SP1?

 

[Donald McDaniel]

I mentioned this in another post about XP Tablet, but I also notice this
same bug on a desktop. Has anyone run into a problem after installing sp2
on a machine that has Office 2003? Once installed, you can no longer use
Word as your Outlook Email editor. It give you a message that Word is not
the correct version.
Have noticed this on 2 seperate desktops as well as the table.
Any clue?

Harry Poorman
(e-mail address removed)

I don't have the problem you report. Your problem must be an isolated
problem, possibly caused by poor or incorrect configuration of Outlook
2003 or Word 2003.

Donald L McDaniel
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[karen]

Now that is very interesting 'cos I bookmarked the page at the beginning
of the and it indeed showed numerous MS products that may be scuttled by
SP2. The page in my bookmarks is called "884130 - Programs that may
behave differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2ed"
The link is
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884130&product=windowsxpsp2
and is now called "884130 - Programs that are known to experience a loss
of functionality when they run on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based
computer" . It now has only a couple of MS product in what is now a much
shorter list.


Charlie.
www.peartreegreen.org

That's odd! I did the same and the list is a LOT shorter now. It had a lot
of MS products, and now there is only 1. It's so much shorter that I
suspect it's not just MS products that are no longer showing, although there
was a whole pile of them.

-karen

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Office 2003 was but not Office 2003 SP-1

The name also changed from:
Programs that may behave differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2
To:
Programs that are known to experience a loss of functionality when
they run on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer

This page has changed a lot and seems to have some from the other:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842242

 

[Testy]

That is all semantics it either works the way it should or it doesn't. Very
simple.

Testy

 

[Guest]

Yes - I am getting it on every PC in our our office
There's no set remedy - I uninstall Service Pack then reinstall sometimes 2
or 3 times then eventually it works (of course rebooting twice in between)
The probelm isn't resticted to Word - the system will tell you that Windows
Installer is not configured so you can't run a repair.

Somebody at MicroNOHELPsoft really has to do something. I notice they
haven't chipped in here as I keep wasting my time fixing their balls up.

As for that propoganda manipulation with the list of affected programs -
it's a worry

 

[Guest]

I was wrong in my previous post - the PCs with Office Pro 2003 SP1 still
exhibit all the the silly behaviour as described (they didn't for at least
one reboot though). This doesn't happen on PCs with Office 2002/XP Sp3
installed - the upgrade to XP SP2 goes smoothly.

I have finally got around the problem on PCs with Office Pro 2003 SP1 by
doing a repair install to XP then applying SP2 again and then rebooting twice.

The problem - and there are many manifestations of it from what I have
discerned in various posts including Harry's at the start of this thread -
are related to either the COM + System Application Service - error 1067
and/or DCOM Server Process Launcher which is in a constant state of starting.
2 reboots after doing the repair install of XP all is ok. For some reason
it's not on the first reboot which can waste a lot of time!

Now can someone from Microhell take note of this - It does not happen on XP
PCs with Office 2002 SP3 - it happens on PCs with Office Pro 2003 Sp1 in my
experience which says to me that COM+ is ok.