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Office Update Fails


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I am tryign to update Office XP with the new Service Pack and everytime I try to update it I get this message.

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What can I do?

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You have to use the adminsitrative update

Here are the long drawn out instructions I used succesfully:

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Use the adminstrator update.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/off...-us/oxpsp1a.exe

Then follow these instructions

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Instructions for updating Office XP Professional w/ Frontpage -

Corporate Edition

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NOTE: In these instructions, I assume your cd-rom drive is "D".

Replace "D"

with whatever your cd-rom drive really is.

1. Put your Office XP CD in your cd-rom drive.

2. Click Start -> Run...

3. Type "D:setup /a" (This will install a VALID ADMINISTRATIVE POINT

INSTALLATION)

4. Specifiy the Origanization/CD-Key/Location.

(For the sake of these instructions, leave it at C:Office)

5. Let it install -- this will take a while

6. Extract the oxpsp1a.exe to C:adminupdate

7. Click Start -> Run...

8. Type "msiexec /p C:adminupdateMAINSP1_Admin.msp /a

C:Officeproplus.msi"

Do not change any information during this part. Just let it

continue.

Let it proceed. This may take some time to continue.

9. Click Start -> Run...

10. Type "msiexec /p C:adminupdateOWC10SP1_Admin.msp /a

C:Officeowc10.msi"

Do not change any information during this part. Just let it

continue.

Let it proceed. This may take some time to continue.

11. Click Start -> Run...

12. Type "msiexec /i C:Officeproplus.msi

REINSTALL=ALLREINSTALLMODE=vomus"

Let it proceed. This may take some time to continue.

13. Congratulations! You now have upgraded to Microsoft Office XP

Professional SP1!

Please confirm by loading any install Office application (relating

to Office XP Pro)

and checking the about box. It should state 'SP1' and the version

number should end with '3501'.

14. You may now delete C:adminupdate and C:Office. The contents of

C:Office may be burned to a CD for a direct, possibly keyless (it was

for

me but have not tested it on a machine that did not have it installed

previously) Office XP Pro w/ Frontpage SP1 CD Installer. As usual, it

will

also be activation-less as well.

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hehe, that works.. iw as about to say get the March 7th version of (WinWord.exe) Office Xp and it would work fine. You have the "February 28th" version.

(right click winword.exe in program filesmicrosoft officeoffice 10 and choose properties to see :) )

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We all know this is a warez version of office XP so im not sure if he should be being helped, but its too late now. Whoever came up with the instructions originally did well though.

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Originally posted by hobsgrg

We all know this is a warez version of office XP so im not sure if he should be being helped, but its too late now. Whoever came up with the instructions originally did well though.

That may not be true actually. My cousin purchased Office XP Professional the day it came out. He had seen it in beta form (from Microsoft), and he was totally psyched about it. When it came out, he bought it right away. It turns out that he also had the February 28,2001 version of Word, and therefore had a big problem installing the Service Pack.

The thing is that Microsoft initially shipped Office XP with the February 28th version of Word, and they didn't ship it with the version that had the March 7th version until a few weeks later. So you see, those that purchased it in the first few weeks after it shipped to stores to go on sale most likely ended up with the version of Office XP that cannot be updated to SP1 under normal means.

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Originally posted by Hawkeye

That may not be true actually. My cousin purchased Office XP Professional the day it came out. He had seen it in beta form (from Microsoft), and he was totally psyched about it. When it came out, he bought it right away. It turns out that he also had the February 28,2001 version of Word, and therefore had a big problem installing the Service Pack.

The thing is that Microsoft initially shipped Office XP with the February 28th version of Word, and they didn't ship it with the version that had the March 7th version until a few weeks later. So you see, those that purchased it in the first few weeks after it shipped to stores to go on sale most likely ended up with the version of Office XP that cannot be updated to SP1 under normal means.

Oops sorry, if i've falsely accused people of using warez i grovellingly apologise

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Originally posted by SHoTTa35

hehe, that works.. iw as about to say get the March 7th version of (WinWord.exe) Office Xp and it would work fine. You have the "February 28th" version.

(right click winword.exe in program filesmicrosoft officeoffice 10 and choose properties to see)

I have the February 28th version so I guess i'm sh!t out of luck.

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It actually does this with both legit and warez versions. On my bought version of OfficeXP and even my friends warez version. All you had to do was have the OfficeXP CD in the drive before running any updates and they would install successfully. Not sure why one would even bother to do the administrative update thingy ;)

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Lokster,

Thank you for the well written instructions. I have been trying to accomplish this for some time now. This was indeed a great help.

Again, thank you.

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Hi,

I'm having a problem with Step 12. Everything else goes fine but when I try to do that last step it says:

Another version of this product is already installed. Installation of this version cannot continue. To configure or remove the existing version of this product use AddRemove Programs in the Control Panel.

Any suggestions guys?

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