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Finding out where Office 2003 stores its setup information
What is the registry entry where Office 2003 Student and Teacher edition
stores its installation CD location please? I have installed recently and have the original media, but since then the CDROM drive letter has changed and will probably change again as I tweak the machine further. I will probably "copy" the CD anyway to another partition - but wanted if possible once I have got all my drive letter allocations settled down (new build, new OS, new installation of Office) to alter the registry entry for where Office was installed from. Win XP Home edition SP2 Many thanks. -- Rev Robert M Jones, Wimborne Baptist Church, UK http://www.wimborne-baptist.org.uk Free trial of Mailwasher Pro - effective email spam filter - (commission goes to our partners in Bulgaria) http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=420 |
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Finding out where Office 2003 stores its setup information
Robert M Jones wrote:
What is the registry entry where Office 2003 Student and Teacher edition stores its installation CD location please? I have installed recently and have the original media, but since then the CDROM drive letter has changed and will probably change again as I tweak the machine further. I will probably "copy" the CD anyway to another partition - but wanted if possible once I have got all my drive letter allocations settled down (new build, new OS, new installation of Office) to alter the registry entry for where Office was installed from. Win XP Home edition SP2 Many thanks. -- Rev Robert M Jones, Wimborne Baptist Church, UK http://www.wimborne-baptist.org.uk Free trial of Mailwasher Pro - effective email spam filter - (commission goes to our partners in Bulgaria) http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=420 It's not just one location, and it's not just in the Reigistry. The only right way to do it is to uninstall it and then reinstall it to the drive you want it on. Probably a much faster way to do it, too. There are some software apps that can change a drive letter and the rest of the data accordingly and with fair success. Partition Magic seems to be rather good at it if you have that. Pop |
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Finding out where Office 2003 stores its setup information
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Robert M Jones wrote: What is the registry entry where Office 2003 Student and Teacher edition stores its installation CD location please? I have installed recently and have the original media, but since then the CDROM drive letter has changed and will probably change again as I tweak the machine further. I will probably "copy" the CD anyway to another partition - but wanted if possible once I have got all my drive letter allocations settled down (new build, new OS, new installation of Office) to alter the registry entry for where Office was installed from. Win XP Home edition SP2 Many thanks. -- Rev Robert M Jones, Wimborne Baptist Church, UK http://www.wimborne-baptist.org.uk Free trial of Mailwasher Pro - effective email spam filter - (commission goes to our partners in Bulgaria) http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=420 It's not just one location, and it's not just in the Reigistry. The only right way to do it is to uninstall it and then reinstall it to the drive you want it on. Probably a much faster way to do it, too. There are some software apps that can change a drive letter and the rest of the data accordingly and with fair success. Partition Magic seems to be rather good at it if you have that. Pop It's not the current HD installation I want to move - just the record of the original CDROM source of the installation files. AFAIK Office stores information about the CDROM location where its setup files where originally installed FROM. It's that single piece of information I want - the letter of the drive it thinks the original CD was. -- Rev Robert M Jones, Wimborne Baptist Church, UK http://www.wimborne-baptist.org.uk Free trial of Mailwasher Pro - effective email spam filter - (commission goes to our partners in Bulgaria) http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=420 |
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Finding out where Office 2003 stores its setup information
If you make changes and Word's installation cannot find the CD from which
you originally installed, it will prompt you for it or the new location of the data files. You can then change the location in that dialog without having to edit the registry. Word should remember the change. Run Help detect & repair to activate the mechanism. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Robert M Jones wrote: POP wrote: Robert M Jones wrote: What is the registry entry where Office 2003 Student and Teacher edition stores its installation CD location please? I have installed recently and have the original media, but since then the CDROM drive letter has changed and will probably change again as I tweak the machine further. I will probably "copy" the CD anyway to another partition - but wanted if possible once I have got all my drive letter allocations settled down (new build, new OS, new installation of Office) to alter the registry entry for where Office was installed from. Win XP Home edition SP2 Many thanks. -- Rev Robert M Jones, Wimborne Baptist Church, UK http://www.wimborne-baptist.org.uk Free trial of Mailwasher Pro - effective email spam filter - (commission goes to our partners in Bulgaria) http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=420 It's not just one location, and it's not just in the Reigistry. The only right way to do it is to uninstall it and then reinstall it to the drive you want it on. Probably a much faster way to do it, too. There are some software apps that can change a drive letter and the rest of the data accordingly and with fair success. Partition Magic seems to be rather good at it if you have that. Pop It's not the current HD installation I want to move - just the record of the original CDROM source of the installation files. AFAIK Office stores information about the CDROM location where its setup files where originally installed FROM. It's that single piece of information I want - the letter of the drive it thinks the original CD was. |
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Finding out where Office 2003 stores its setup information
Graham Mayor wrote:
If you make changes and Word's installation cannot find the CD from which you originally installed, it will prompt you for it or the new location of the data files. You can then change the location in that dialog without having to edit the registry. Word should remember the change. Run Help detect & repair to activate the mechanism. Thanks - that's what I wanted to know. -- Rev Robert M Jones, Wimborne Baptist Church, UK http://www.wimborne-baptist.org.uk Free trial of Mailwasher Pro - effective email spam filter - (commission goes to our partners in Bulgaria) http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=420 |
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