OFF2000: Installation Related Errors Starting Programs If Profiles Enabled and Shared Start Menu

ID: Q238387

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Office 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you start a Microsoft Office program, you may receive one of the following error messages:

The Managed Software Installer failed to install the program associated with this file. Please contact you system administrator.

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This application must be installed to run. Please run setup from the location where you originally installed the application.

Also, if you double-click the Microsoft Office 2000 entry in the Add/Remove Programs dialog box, you may receive the following error message:

This action is only valid for products that are currently installed.

CAUSE

You may receive these errors if all of the following conditions are true:

You are using either Windows 98 or Windows 95.

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User Profiles are enabled on your system.

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All users are sharing the Start menu. This means that the Include Start menu and Program groups in user settings check box is not selected on the User Profiles tab of the Passwords dialog box (in Control Panel).

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You do the following:

When the Windows logon screen appears, you either click Cancel or press ESC.

You then install Office.

You log off and then log on as a user.

You try to start one of the Office programs, using the shortcuts on the Programs menu.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, follow these steps:

On the Start menu, click Log Off and click Yes to confirm you want to log off.

Log on as any user. Do not press ESC or click Cancel in the Windows logon dialog box.

Re-run Office Setup.

NOTE: Because Office is essentially installed on the computer already, the time to run Setup for the user is a fraction of the initial installation time. Also, you will not be able to change the installation location for Office if you do a Custom installation.

After you run Setup this second time, any other user will be able to start the Office programs without having to rerun Office setup.

MORE INFORMATION

If you bypass the Windows logon procedure (by pressing ESC or clicking Cancel) then Office Setup will run the same way it runs as if User Profiles were not enabled. For more information about installing Office on Windows 95 or Windows 98 when User Profiles are enabled, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q238122 OFF2000: Installing Office on Windows 9x With/Without Profiles

Additional query words: OFF2000


Keywords          : kbdta 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: August 8, 1999