(Vanity) Computer help needed

[Tanniker Smith]

Oddly enough, this appears to be the same CD that I used the last time. It's from my school and we have a site license that allows teachers to have a copy on their home computer. I've loaded this twice before (on my old PC and on this one). The last time, this PC had stuff preloaded from Costco, including a trial version of Office 2007. After I reset the factory image, no such freebie, and I'm having trouble.

Any suggestions (other than buying a new computer or operating system) would be appreciated.

[rabscuttle385]

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[Maelstorm]

What I’d do is uninstall any copies free or otherwise on the system completely and then try reinstalling. You most certainly should not go buy a new PC to remedy this. Maybe buy a personal copy of Office. You can find teacher/student versions for under $200 dollars. If you lived nearby I’d help you out.

[JSteff]

Isn’t it looking for a particular file in that cab? That may be the way to get around this situation.

[Tanniker Smith]

I was just trying to stop the solutions of "Get a Mac" or "Get Linux" before they started.

The only MS Office product that was on the system was Powerpoint Presenter (or viewer or something) 2007. I already deleted that, but it didn't help.

[Gorzaloon]

I solved ALL my MS Office problems This way:

Except for Outlook, which I solved This Way.

Oh. All these are FREE, and completely compatible with all your documents, and with all your peers who are still using MS Office.

I have a bought and paid-for set of install CD's for MS Office, but just gave up because of all the troubles and all the bloat, as well as exactly what you have going on now.

[Tanniker Smith]

It says that it’s waiting for the cabinets to be loaded in the cache and then it’s says that it can’t find that file. I’ve searched the CD-ROM. It’s not on there. It doesn’t mention a specific file.

[PAR35]

For a workaround, if you need to access documents while you sort this out, would be to download OpenOffice and use that for your immediate needs. It’ll take a little adapting on your part, but certainly not as much as going from Office 03 to Office 07 takes.

[Maelstorm]

You could try downloading another trial version from Microsoft as a stop gap.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/trial/default.aspx?WT.mc_id=9E119FAF-DC26-4D31-9AC1-2874BD967F17&WT.srch=1

[Kirkwood]

Office 2007 trial is conflicting with the Office 2003 install. Are you sure you wiped out Office 2007 completely?

[Kirkwood]

You can get Office 2007 for $60 if your school is on the list. http://www.academicsuperstore.com/institution/select/

[aft_lizard]

Heck you should find student versions for less than 100, I paid 69 for mine and could have purhased it even cheaper from the campus computer store.

[Kirkwood]

Your school also needs to update ASAP. There are all sorts of potential compatibility problems if you are still using Office 2003.

[smokingfrog]

Are you using Windows XP? With sp2? I think that version of office came out before Windows XP sp2, so perhaps it is looking for something in the older version of WinXP. I have Windows XP Pro with SP2 (haven't gotten around to installing SP3 yet), and I don't have that file (mt561403.cab) on my computer.

I don't have a solution for you, but I believe Office 2003 has two service packs also.

Do you have a Windows XP disk? see if your missing CAB file is on it.

You might want to try doing a custom installation first. (Maybe just install Word and Excel) and see if that will work. Then you can try adding the other stuff you want.

[aft_lizard]

And they both suck. If I could get office for free or openorifice I would take office no questions asked.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

“Office 2007 trial is conflicting with the Office 2003 install. Are you sure you wiped out Office 2007 completely?”

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In which case the “install Linux” suggestion might actually fix your problem.

Install a flavor of Linux which will format the hard drive away from Windows. Then once you pass the reformat step, stop and go back to your Windows install

Might work...

[Richard Kimball]

FWIW, I work at a college, and they offer free copies of Office 2007, etc, for instructors. I don't take them up on it, but bought my own copy for the following reason. My college is supported by state funds, AND in Texas, that means the state has the right to search the computer at any time if I install school purchased software on it.

I spent the bucks for Office X years ago, never upgraded. It worked fine until Office 07 started doing the docx stuff.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I second the OpenOffice.org solution. Completely compatible with MS Word.

[OpeEdMunkey]

I second the OpenOffice.org solution. Completely compatible with MS Word.

I'll third that. I've used it at work and in most cases there's no problem.

[jeffc]

Everyone I know at school hates Office 07. Nothing is where it was at on Office 03, and things are located in very un-logical locations. Some people I know have gone back to the Student version of Office 03. Me? I never left it.