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"A.J. Maas" wrote:
> One cute little thing it does is stop pirated
> versions of Office 2000 from working after the
> patch(SR-1) is applied. If you start an Office
> app that has apparently been pirated, it shuts
> down almost immediately. Unfortunately,
> legitimate Office users occasionally experience
> this shutdown as well--especially those who
> inadvertently entered the wrong Product ID when
> Office 2000 was first installed. To correct the
> problem, uninstall Office 2000 and reinstall it
> with the correct Product ID (CD-ROM key).
>
I will probably wait and see if MicroSoft makes any changes to their SR-1. I don't need to install it right away and I don't want to
deal with any bugs.
> During installation, SR-1 requests the appropriate
> Office 2000 CD-ROM (or seeks out the network-based
> install share). If SR-1 can't find the files, it
> pops up a dialog box requesting the CD-ROM, but it
> doesn't provide a Browse button so you can tell
> Setup where the files are. Is it a bug or
> antipiracy feature? I'm not sure, but here's what
> happens: SR-1 is only smart enough to find Office
> files in the location from which you first installed
> Office. You may have installed Office from a CD-ROM
> in drive E: or a specific network path; SR-1 looks
> in that one location only. I suspect you can hack
> the Registry to fix this, or, if you're bored and
> have time to kill, just reinstall Office, leave
> the CD-ROM in the drive, and apply SR-1.
>
I plan to buy a (much) larger drive in the future. I will be adding at least 5 partitions using PartitionMagic. This will change my
CD-ROM letter from M: to R:. When MicroSoft creates more Service Releases, I will have to call them and ask for help on installing
their future SR's.
I have NEVER reinstalled Windows. My installation goes back to Windows 3.1. I must have dozens of old files and more than a few old
SYSTEM.INI entries on my system. Eventually, I will have to do a complete reinstall. This will probably take 2 weeks and cost me at
least $70 in tech support incidents (which is why I have never reinstalled).
> The issue is addressed in the following Registry Key
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MS Office 97 Professional\97.0.0.0203(1043)\Registration
>
I don't have this key or any similar key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Daniel.
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