After running Microsoft Installer cleanup utility which didnt help
found this
Error: 1635 This patch package could not be opened. Verify that the
patch package exists and that you can access it, or contact the
application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer
patch package. Solution: Registry key is corrupt. Please delete the
key 9040110900063D11C8EF00054038389C under the following location.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Prod ucts\ After
deleting, restart the computer and rerun the Office XP setup. This
should run without any problems.
Then I could reinstall Word.
>I recently cloned by drives to larger ones.
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>Most things seem to work okay
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>But when I click on my Word2003 icon I get the message
>Preparing to Install
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>Then This program in no longer fuctioning
>Run set up and Repair.
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>But then Word opens
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>So I went to set up and it says this patch cannot be found and doesnt
>do anything
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>It won't let me install