Re: office 97 small business edition work on xp sofware

[garfield-n-odie]

Office 97 does work with Windows XP, but some users report problems
installing Office 97 when Service Pack 2 for Windows XP is installed.
There are two ways around this problem:
1. You could uninstall WinXP SP2, install Office 97 and related service
packs, and reinstall WinXP SP2.
2. You could leave WinXP SP2 intact and do a custom installation of
Office 97 in which you set the Web Authoring Tools to "not available" in
the setup options.

office 97 xp wrote:

> can 97 small business edition work on xp operating system
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[David R. Norton MVP]

garfield-n-odie <garfie...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in:

> Office 97 does work with Windows XP, but some users report
> problems installing Office 97 when Service Pack 2 for Windows XP
> is installed. There are two ways around this problem:
> 1. You could uninstall WinXP SP2, install Office 97 and related
> service packs, and reinstall WinXP SP2.
> 2. You could leave WinXP SP2 intact and do a custom installation
> of Office 97 in which you set the Web Authoring Tools to "not
> available" in the setup options.

Or try the registry hack suggested by Bob Buckland, it works for some
and not for others (I'm one of the "others", <sigh>), I don't know why?

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Bob Buckland ?:-) May 9, 11:16 am

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.office.setup
From: "Bob Buckland

MS Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) disabled the
HTMLMarq.ocx (active x control) for security reasons.

If you're not going to use the web page features you
can do a custom install and choose to not install the
Web Authoring tools or use the following technique
(not a MS supported one)

to modify both .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm
in this registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image
File Execution Options

from .ocx to .old

This article has information on modifying the registry
http://support.microsoft.com/d­efault.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;3227­56
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David R. Norton MVP
<d_r_n...@yahoo.com>