I am running MS Office 2000 on Win2K on P4. All "critical Updates" to W2k are installed, also most relevant updates to MS Office are installed, although the problem existed before the updates were installed. All installation was done in "Administrator"; the problem seems to occur whether logged in as Administrator or as User. The package has been un-installed and re-installed to no avail. The problem is twofold:
1. MS Office products don't auto-start. For example, a file with .xls extension is clicked in Explorer, Excel tries to start, fails to recognise the .xls file, and advises that it (Excel) is trying to re-install itself.
2. If Excel is started from the Start\Programs menu, it tries to reinstall itself. Several "Cancel"s later, it comes up properly and behaves itself. This behaviour applies for the whole suite of MS Office programs on my machine as well as MS Media Player.
There are other products on the machine that are working fine - eg, Corel Draw, Nero CD writer, Textbridge, etc., plus McAfee FW4 and Viruscan.
Help! I'm out of ideas!
1. MS Office products don't auto-start. For example, a file with .xls extension is clicked in Explorer, Excel tries to start, fails to recognise the .xls file, and advises that it (Excel) is trying to re-install itself.
2. If Excel is started from the Start\Programs menu, it tries to reinstall itself. Several "Cancel"s later, it comes up properly and behaves itself. This behaviour applies for the whole suite of MS Office programs on my machine as well as MS Media Player.
There are other products on the machine that are working fine - eg, Corel Draw, Nero CD writer, Textbridge, etc., plus McAfee FW4 and Viruscan.
Help! I'm out of ideas!