Problems installing MS Office Premium 2003 in Win7

Question

I cannot get MS Office Premium 2003 to install on my PC.  It's a Dell Optiplex GX260 with 2 GB ram.  I upgraded from Win XP professional.  So far my experiences with Win7 have been largely.  Not only will MS Office Premium not install but starting up takes 3-5 minutes considerably longer than my XP system.  My primary concern at this point is installing the MS Office Premium.  It gets to the point where it says Installation in Progress ..... unfortunately it doesn't make any progress from that point.  The task manager however says that MS Office Premium 2003 is running!

Answer 1

Hello Larry,

Thanks for your post.

This might be cause by the UAC(User Account Control), please try to run the installer as an Administrator(Right-Click the setup.exe and select "run as administrator").

Since this forum is mainly for compatibility issue on Windows Development, please post win7 related issue on Win7 forum.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windows7

Thanks,

Rong-Chun Zhang

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Answer 2

Hello Larry,

Have you got any progress on this issue? If there is anything else we can help, welcome to post here.

Thanks,

Rong-Chun Zhang

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Answer 3

Thank you for responding to my question.  Unfortunately it did not help.  The software installs okay but it cannot or will not connect to the printer.  I've spent soime time talking with the Lexmark people, but no success accessing and printing or scanning.   The said to wait till the end of the month to try for new drivers.

Another very troubling problem is the extremely long time it takes for the system to boot up.  During one reboot it took 12 minutes from the time I pressed reboot until I got back to where I was.  There is very little software on my pc at this point.  Any ideas how to speed things up?

Thanks.

Larry

Answer 4

It works now! found the answer on the other forum.  The key was to run the program in compatibility mode with Vista SP2.

Larry

Answer 5

Thanks for your sharing with us.

Regards,
Rong-Chun Zhang

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