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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Manfred


"Gerry Hickman" wrote:

Hi Manfred,

Good idea about the new partition, but why didn't you test it with Vista
32 bit if that's what you wanted!!

I noticed you posted part of a log file below, and it's talking about
creating a "restore point". I hope Office setup is NOT creating a
restore point?? I certainly don't want it to do that on my systems.
Typical of Microsoft. The restore point is now seen as a panacea for the
writing of poor software, and failing to test it properly - when it
fails they can just tell the customer to "do a restore", LOL!

I noticed you say you had old versions still installed. Didn't you see
my earlier post stating that "upgrades are always wrong"? It may not be
related to this issue, but nevertheless, it's still wrong. Surely
Outlook is included with Office 2007 so why would you leave an old
version, and regarding Frontpage, it's insane, you need to install
SharePoint Designer 2007 to make it compatible with the rest of Office
2007 and Vista. The problem is the registry and the "Common Files"
folder and the need to patch both versions. Side by side installs are
always, always wrong.

Manfred wrote:
I formatted another partition on my system, installed Vista 64 bit and
subsequently Office Enterprise 2007, everything works so the DVD is good.
However, this all needs to run on the 32 bit version which is my main system.
Does anyone have any more ideas?
It does not look like MS has a way of supporting install problems with Office.
Am I stuck for good?


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Gerry Hickman (London UK)