I AM FURIOUS WTH MS's QUIRKS

I bought MS2000 Standard-Upgrade about 6 mos ago...brand new,
perhaps OEM..can't remember! It advertised that MS WORKS was a valid
program to use for upgrading!

Wrong. It would not accept MS WORKS 4.0, perhaps because or the
year???

So I had to reload MS OFFIVE 97 PRO. Valid OK, but..... when I
loaded MS OFFICE 2000 today, I got an error message, "Cannot Access
File.....D:\ "whatever" from the CD. RETRY? I clicked yes. NOPE!
CANCEL...my only option~

Is the CD bad, or is this a quirk, or can I get a link to contact
someone for a new disk, or is there cure right here on my
desktop/ ?????????????

I think my computer might hate me, ya think?

Thanks for any help I can get.

Mike
m p g a t m s n d o t c o m

Office *2000*? New? Considering that's been upgraded 3 times since it's
release I hope you didn't pay much, if anything for it.

Where did you get this disk? I'm thinking it could be bogus.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



"Mikie" wrote in message
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I bought MS2000 Standard-Upgrade about 6 mos ago...brand new,
perhaps OEM..can't remember! It advertised that MS WORKS was a valid
program to use for upgrading!

Wrong. It would not accept MS WORKS 4.0, perhaps because or the
year???

So I had to reload MS OFFIVE 97 PRO. Valid OK, but..... when I
loaded MS OFFICE 2000 today, I got an error message, "Cannot Access
File.....D:\ "whatever" from the CD. RETRY? I clicked yes. NOPE!
CANCEL...my only option~

Is the CD bad, or is this a quirk, or can I get a link to contact
someone for a new disk, or is there cure right here on my
desktop/ ?????????????

I think my computer might hate me, ya think?

Thanks for any help I can get.

Mike
m p g a t m s n d o t c o m

Mikie

Office 2000 is not supported anymore. What is the exact error message aside from D:\
"whatever"
How are you trying to Upgrade your Office 97??

You can start the install of Office 2000 just by itself . No need to install Office
97. When the install starts and it asks you for a qualifying product then you insert
the Office 97 as proof.

Uninstall Office 97 and start the Office 200 Upgrade as I posted above.

Also from where did you get the Office 2000 CD from. What does it show on the
label of the Off 2000 CD

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"Mikie" wrote in message
...
I bought MS2000 Standard-Upgrade about 6 mos ago...brand new,
perhaps OEM..can't remember! It advertised that MS WORKS was a valid
program to use for upgrading!

Wrong. It would not accept MS WORKS 4.0, perhaps because or the
year???

So I had to reload MS OFFIVE 97 PRO. Valid OK, but..... when I
loaded MS OFFICE 2000 today, I got an error message, "Cannot Access
File.....D:\ "whatever" from the CD. RETRY? I clicked yes. NOPE!
CANCEL...my only option~

Is the CD bad, or is this a quirk, or can I get a link to contact
someone for a new disk, or is there cure right here on my
desktop/ ?????????????

I think my computer might hate me, ya think?

Thanks for any help I can get.

Mike
m p g a t m s n d o t c o m

Peter Foldes wrote:
Mikie

Office 2000 is not supported anymore.

That's strange, I get updates from Office Updates. I wonder why.

Alias

Alias

You are correct and that is true . But it is only Security Updates which is always
available for out of support
OS's

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Peter

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"Alias" wrote in message
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Peter Foldes wrote:
Mikie

Office 2000 is not supported anymore.

That's strange, I get updates from Office Updates. I wonder why.

Alias

Peter Foldes wrote:
Alias

You are correct and that is true . But it is only Security Updates which
is always available for out of support
OS's

Peter

Actually, you can get support from Usenet.

Alias

"Alias" wrote in message
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Peter Foldes wrote:
Mikie

Office 2000 is not supported anymore.

That's strange, I get updates from Office Updates. I wonder why.

Alias

Hi Mike,

MS Office 2000 upgrade editions weren't available as OEM products and there
were some issues with having it recognize MS Works, but usually it was MS
Works 6. You may want to try contacting MS as described here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210437 if you're using MS Works as the
qualifying product, but as you already have MS Office 97, the Office 2000
upgrade version should recognize either an installed copy of that or it
should recognize the CD/diskette for that version during setup for upgrade
purposes.

Like new car models, when a new one comes out, Microsoft basically stops
making 'old models' (in this case CDs) for the older Office models when the
next Office model (Office XP/2002 in the case of Office 2000) comes out.
See if you can copy the CD you have to your hard drive and install from
there.

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"Mikie" wrote in message
...
I bought MS2000 Standard-Upgrade about 6 mos ago...brand new,
perhaps OEM..can't remember! It advertised that MS WORKS was a valid
program to use for upgrading!

Wrong. It would not accept MS WORKS 4.0, perhaps because or the
year???

So I had to reload MS OFFIVE 97 PRO. Valid OK, but..... when I
loaded MS OFFICE 2000 today, I got an error message, "Cannot Access
File.....D:\ "whatever" from the CD. RETRY? I clicked yes. NOPE!
CANCEL...my only option~

Is the CD bad, or is this a quirk, or can I get a link to contact
someone for a new disk, or is there cure right here on my
desktop/ ?????????????

I think my computer might hate me, ya think?

Thanks for any help I can get.

Mike
--
Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP