Thanks for the tip on the newsreader. And, the problem in XP Home and Office
2003 after installing Office SP3 has been resolved. After three weeks of
searching and two sessions with Microsoft Update Support (in which I was
very, very disappointed- after more than an hour on the phone with them two
different times I was told to just change all user accounts from limited to
admin) I found a website with a fix. My sincere thanks go out to Andy at
that site and a reader of his, Brian. Brian's fix was a subinacl routine
for Office permissions errors in Vista but I was out of ideas so I tried it
on my XP Home- it worked beautifully. For all those users out there with the
same problem (Windows Installer runs over and over when opening Office progs,
Excel throws "stdole32.tlb' error)....Try this link (It says it's a fix for
Vista and Office 2007, but , as I said, it works on XP Home and Office 2003
too...and, I would suspect, XP Pro):
http://dventhusiast.com/problems/vista-office-2007-installation-proble...stdole3
"Charles W Davis" wrote:
> You should be using a Newsreader, such as Outlook Express on your XP system,
> or Thunderbird.
> http://dundats.mvps.org/Other/Resources/NewsGroups/Index.htm
>
> "randolindso" <randolindso.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:105FD4B5-F0CC-4D37-9434-6E099F0BE08D@microsoft.com...
> > For some reason my replies aren't getting through but I did receive your
> > response about elevating the programs in the limited accounts. I guess
> > I'm
> > not sure what you mean by elevating? Is it the same as RunAs? I've tried
> > to
> > do RunAs but there is no option in right-click and in the advanced
> > properties
> > for each shortcut the Run with Different Credentials is grayed out.
> >
> > "Peter Foldes" wrote:
> >
> >> Use this below and see if it corrects the issue
> >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
> >> --
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> >> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
> >>
> >> "randolindso" <randolindso.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:E2D885BA-FA9A-42BF-8438-FECA823B095D@microsoft.com...
> >> > I'm running Windows XP Home with one Admin account and two Limited
> >> > accounts.
> >> > I've had Office 2003 Professional installed for years with no problems.
> >> > I
> >> > decided to install all the updates through Microsoft update...did so,
> >> > and now
> >> > it throws an error when trying to run any Office progs in the limited
> >> > accounts. Each time I run them it trys to run an installer. One time
> >> > only
> >> > it gave an error for stdole32.tlb. The Office progs run fine when the
> >> > user
> >> > is changed to Admin. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling. I've
> >> > tried
> >> > temporarily changing the accounts to Admin before installing. I've
> >> > tried
> >> > running the Office progs once under Admin and then changing back to
> >> > Limited.
> >> > I'm pretty sure it's a permissions problem, possibly involving
> >> > stdole32.tlb....Any ideas?
> >>
> >>
>
>
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