Setup Installs MSAPPS on Network Server Instead of Hard Disk

ID: Q110417

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c

SYMPTOMS

Setup may install the Word for Windows shared applications (namely Microsoft WordArt, Microsoft Equation Editor, Microsoft Graph, and the text and graphics converters, collectively known as MSAPPS) on a network server instead of your local hard drive.

Note: The default location of the shared applications is the <WINDOWS>\MSAPPS subdirectory.

CAUSE

Prior to installing Word, if you performed a workstation installation of an application (such as Microsoft Publisher or Microsoft Excel) that placed shared applications on a network server or shared drive, your WIN.INI and REG.DAT files point to the network location of those shared applications. By design, when you install Word, Setup searches for an existing shared applications location and installs its shared applications in that location. This decision is based on the (usually valid) assumption that you want to keep all your shared applications together in the same location.

WORKAROUND

If you want Word Setup to place your shared applications in a different location, do one of the following:

1. Use the Setup program from the other application to uninstall the

   shared applications from their network server location. Then run
   Word Setup to install these applications locally.

   -or-

2. Remove all the references to those applications from your WIN.INI

   and REG.DAT files before you run Setup.

   Use Registration Information Editor (REGEDIT.EXE) to modify your REG.DAT
   file; use System Configuration Editor (SYSEDIT.EXE) or any text editor
   to modify your WIN.INI file. To start REGEDIT.EXE or SYSEDIT.EXE, use
   the Run command on the File menu in Windows Program Manager.

Note: With either of these workarounds, the shared applications always run from the location where Word installed them, even when you start them from another application. You can no longer start these shared applications from their original network server location. For example, if you start a workstation installation of Microsoft Publisher (which installed Microsoft WordArt on the server), and then start WordArt, WordArt runs from the hard drive location--where Word installed it--instead of the server location.

REFERENCES

"Microsoft Word User's Guide," version 6.0, pages 767-775

"Microsoft Word Quick Results," version 6.0, pages 8-11

KBCategory: kbnetwork KBSubcategory: Additional query words: 6.0 acmsetup excel winword 6.0a 6.0c word6 publisher officeinterop office

Keywords          : kbnetwork
Version           : 6.0 6.0a 6.0c
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: February 5, 1998