Hi Manfred,

The key to this on a home computer is to use a new partition, you could
test your Outlook, and your Frontpage and if your Office went wrong
(like it did) you're main computer is still running fine.

You need to move on from legacy Outlook and legacy Frontpage, it's a
headache, you need to get the new stuff working then throw the old stuff
in the bin.

I'm not understanding the issue about passwords? We moved from Office
2000 to Office 2003 and now to Office 2007, and we never needed to enter
a password. The authentication is done via Windows Integrated
Authentication and the Exchange Profile that's embedded in the roaming
user profile.

For home computers that are not on the LAN, there's no Windows
Integrated, but in most cases the information will already be in the
user profile. Either way, you need to know your Outlook password in case
it goes wrong one day, e.g. the whole hard drive could crash, so I don't
see how installing a new Outlook can be a major problem.

The way I have it set up for our users is with Outlook Web Access. I
find Mozilla browser is best for this, it's faster than IE and avoids
problems of OWA trying to instantiate ActiveX controls.

Anyway, to test your Office 2007 problem it sounds like you need a new
32bit Vista partition, then test Office 2007. If it works you know your
primary partition is problematic. Time to do a clean install.

Yikes, I hope you didn't "upgrade" to Vista from XP (???), that would be
REALLY REALLY bad! Please tell me it's a clean install and you did a
block level hard drive integrity check first?

I forgot to check this, if you upgraded it, all bets are off. Having a
broken computer is normal after an upgrade...

Manfred wrote:
Gerry,
one of my attempts to install Office 2007 included removing Office XP
completely, didn't help.
As far as reinstalling the old Outlook and FP. I need a working e-mail
client on a daily basis, one that has access to the entire Outlook file. I
was hoping of course that to be Outlook 2007 since I have to go through the
insanity of having to reinstall the passwords for all of my e-mail accounts
every time I start Oulook, read somewhere here that's the way MS intended it.
Regarding FP, I want to hang on to it for now, because it works flawless for
what I use it for. Why would I trust SharePoint Designer 2007 to work after
my bad experiences with Vista and now Office 2007?
MS wants $99.00 for support on Office 2007, not sure how much that would be
if I throw SharePoint into the mix. I am not sure how much they charge for
Designer, but it would feel like throwing good money after bad. I use FP as a
standalone only, just need compatibility with my webhost which it has.

BTW, the 64 bit install in the separate particion was from a naive believe
that there would be enough drivers available, in other words I had hoped at
one time I would be running the 64 bit version as my main system. This may be
still a few years away.


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Gerry Hickman (London UK)