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Old December 11th, 2007, 11:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.office.setup
Joel
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"Paula" wrote:

I just purchased a new laptop with Vista Home Premium o/s. I was told by the
retailer that Vista would work with my programs that are on my XP. I have
been trying to install Windows Office 2003 on my laptop. I keep getting
"Installation Error: File not found" the screen keeps asking for various cab
files. The screen also indicates I should look for it on by browsing
"Original Installation Source Required". The CD I am using is the original.
I have tried changing the compatiblity and running as the administrator. I
receive an error message looking for cab files and stating an error code 2350.

Is there a patch or something I need to complete the installation? Can you
help me?
Thank you in advance for any and all suggestions.

  #12  
Old January 10th, 2008, 08:44 AM posted to microsoft.public.office.setup
psc
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I had somewhat similar problem when I bought a new laptop with Vista on it
and tried to install my old Office 2003 (Student/small business) version from
the same CD I had installed it just a couple of months ago on my old XP PC.

The error message I got was (translated, as the original one was in Finnish):
Installation error: file not found, file ZT561401.CAB was not found and then
the installation was requesting installation media (which according to my
understanding already was in E: drive).

After ending reading the questions and answers in this thread I tried what
someone here suggested to use Regedit and rename there for Office some
entries from 11.0 to Old11 and then I tried the installation again and it
worked.

In my case I did not have to remove any Office2007 trial versions or any
other Office installations and regarding the things proposed to be renamed
from 11.0 to Old11 I only had one of them.

I just thought I'd post this in case someone else still encounters these
problems, to document that this problem can have also a slightly different
appearance but that for me the regedit helped with it.



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Old January 10th, 2008, 08:50 AM posted to microsoft.public.office.setup
psc
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I thought I'd copy here the regedit part which I used:

1. Close all the applications.
2. Click on Start-Run, type in REGEDIT and click on OK.
3. Locate and select the following registry subkeys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0

4. Right click on 11.0 and rename them to Old11.
5. Close the Registry Editor.

So in my case the steps were just these and I had only one of those lines to
be changed, the other one did not exist. And after having done this I just
restarted the installation and everything went fine.

"PSc" wrote:

I had somewhat similar problem when I bought a new laptop with Vista on it
and tried to install my old Office 2003 (Student/small business) version from
the same CD I had installed it just a couple of months ago on my old XP PC.

The error message I got was (translated, as the original one was in Finnish):
Installation error: file not found, file ZT561401.CAB was not found and then
the installation was requesting installation media (which according to my
understanding already was in E: drive).

After ending reading the questions and answers in this thread I tried what
someone here suggested to use Regedit and rename there for Office some
entries from 11.0 to Old11 and then I tried the installation again and it
worked.

In my case I did not have to remove any Office2007 trial versions or any
other Office installations and regarding the things proposed to be renamed
from 11.0 to Old11 I only had one of them.

I just thought I'd post this in case someone else still encounters these
problems, to document that this problem can have also a slightly different
appearance but that for me the regedit helped with it.



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Old February 1st, 2008, 12:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.office.setup
Help
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Default Problem installing Office 2003 on Vista

I am having the same problems as those listed above. I have the 2003 office
version for students and teachers and have tried everything listed on this
discussion page as well as other. After trying everything I continue to get
errors for cabinet files that are missing. Anywhere I can download those
files to make this work...thanks!
  #15  
Old February 1st, 2008, 02:55 AM posted to microsoft.public.office.setup
Bob Buckland ?:-\)
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Without knowing what you've tried What happens when you copy the CD contents to your hard drive and install from there?

Did you have an incomplete Office install at some point and shutdown the computer?

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"Help" wrote in message ...
I am having the same problems as those listed above. I have the 2003 office
version for students and teachers and have tried everything listed on this
discussion page as well as other. After trying everything I continue to get
errors for cabinet files that are missing. Anywhere I can download those
files to make this work...thanks!
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*


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Old February 1st, 2008, 07:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.office.setup
Help
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I tried copying the contents of the Cd to my hard drive and installing it
that way and it did not work at all. When installing it from the CD i get to
the point where the installation begins to extract files from the CD and i
get error messages stating that cabinet files (.CAB) are missing. At that
point I've been aborting the installation. Thanks!
  #17  
Old February 3rd, 2008, 01:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.office.setup
clementine
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"Help" wrote:

I tried copying the contents of the Cd to my hard drive and installing it
that way and it did not work at all. When installing it from the CD i get to
the point where the installation begins to extract files from the CD and i
get error messages stating that cabinet files (.CAB) are missing. At that
point I've been aborting the installation. Thanks!

  #18  
Old February 3rd, 2008, 01:39 AM posted to microsoft.public.office.setup
clementine
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Default Problem installing Office 2003 on Vista

I am getting a similar error message but I purchased mine independently of my
computer, so it should have nothing with a problem with the software. It is
saying a file ending in .dll is missing. I had no problems installing with
XP home edition. Can anyone help? I don't have money to buy Office 2007

"Paula" wrote:

I just purchased a new laptop with Vista Home Premium o/s. I was told by the
retailer that Vista would work with my programs that are on my XP. I have
been trying to install Windows Office 2003 on my laptop. I keep getting
"Installation Error: File not found" the screen keeps asking for various cab
files. The screen also indicates I should look for it on by browsing
"Original Installation Source Required". The CD I am using is the original.
I have tried changing the compatiblity and running as the administrator. I
receive an error message looking for cab files and stating an error code 2350.

Is there a patch or something I need to complete the installation? Can you
help me?
Thank you in advance for any and all suggestions.

  #19  
Old September 1st, 2008, 06:40 AM posted to microsoft.public.office.setup
ddnma
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Default Problem installing Office 2003 on Vista

I am having the same problems- I bought my Office 2003 Student Edition new
and my new Vista machine keeps asking for missing .cab files- any suggestions?

Thanks

"clementine" wrote:



"Help" wrote:

I tried copying the contents of the Cd to my hard drive and installing it
that way and it did not work at all. When installing it from the CD i get to
the point where the installation begins to extract files from the CD and i
get error messages stating that cabinet files (.CAB) are missing. At that
point I've been aborting the installation. Thanks!

  #20  
Old September 1st, 2008, 11:33 AM posted to microsoft.public.office.setup
DL
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Default Problem installing Office 2003 on Vista

Have you uninstalled any trial edition first, then cleared temp files &
rebooted?

"ddnma" wrote in message
...
I am having the same problems- I bought my Office 2003 Student Edition new
and my new Vista machine keeps asking for missing .cab files- any
suggestions?

Thanks

"clementine" wrote:



"Help" wrote:

I tried copying the contents of the Cd to my hard drive and installing
it
that way and it did not work at all. When installing it from the CD i
get to
the point where the installation begins to extract files from the CD
and i
get error messages stating that cabinet files (.CAB) are missing. At
that
point I've been aborting the installation. Thanks!



 




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