Office products reconfigure on access

I'm in the process of replacing my computer. I use Outlook 2003 for the
calendar and contact manager. For all other Office use, I prefer my older
Office 2000. After installing on the new machine and running all the updates
and fixes for th OS[XP SP2] and Office, every execution of any Office 2000
app causes the Office 2000 is reconfiguring message. Once it reconfigures,
the apps run find but I moved to a Core 2 Quad for performance that Office
robs me of every time I open an app.

Can you help stop the constant reconfigurations? I DO NOT have this issue
on my old machine, with the exact same software.

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=265194 "OFF2000: Windows
Installer Appears Every Time a Program Is Started".

SteveAikens wrote:

> I'm in the process of replacing my computer. I use Outlook 2003 for the
> calendar and contact manager. For all other Office use, I prefer my older
> Office 2000. After installing on the new machine and running all the updates
> and fixes for th OS[XP SP2] and Office, every execution of any Office 2000
> app causes the Office 2000 is reconfiguring message. Once it reconfigures,
> the apps run find but I moved to a Core 2 Quad for performance that Office
> robs me of every time I open an app.
>
> Can you help stop the constant reconfigurations? I DO NOT have this issue
> on my old machine, with the exact same software.

Great. Thank you. I searched the KB but it never clicked that this was an
"installer" issue for some reason.

As a sidenote for anyone else that may have this issue: the KB articles
notes the fix for MS Access. You may also have to rename other program
executibles in the suite as well. In my case, I had to rename Word.exe and
Excel.exe to reconfigure them to stop the problem.

Appreciate the super help very much

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

> See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=265194 "OFF2000: Windows
> Installer Appears Every Time a Program Is Started".
>
> SteveAikens wrote:
>
> > I'm in the process of replacing my computer. I use Outlook 2003 for the
> > calendar and contact manager. For all other Office use, I prefer my older
> > Office 2000. After installing on the new machine and running all the updates
> > and fixes for th OS[XP SP2] and Office, every execution of any Office 2000
> > app causes the Office 2000 is reconfiguring message. Once it reconfigures,
> > the apps run find but I moved to a Core 2 Quad for performance that Office
> > robs me of every time I open an app.
> >
> > Can you help stop the constant reconfigurations? I DO NOT have this issue
> > on my old machine, with the exact same software.
>
>