Installing Office 97 on Win 98 w/ Partition

[dainamae]

Hello,

I have a laptop that has 2 partitions, and Win 98. When I install Office 97 onto this computer, a msgbox comes up telling me that the setup could not add a line to the Autoexec.bat file, and that I should add it. So I did (it points to the folder where Office resides). Now, I have a problem where I cannot open any Office programs without drilling down in Windows Explorer to the .exe file. I have no problems with the programs when I do get them open, but when I try to open them with shortcuts, I get a "There is not enough free memory" errors. I have no other programs open and minimal items running. Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot!

 

[dball63]

Try creating new temp shortcuts and see if those work.

 

[dainamae]

Here is what I've done so far...Did a complete uninstall and reinstall of Office, created new shortcuts, cleaned up my hard drive (including doing a defrag), applied SR1 & SR2 for Office...installed it on a different computer with no partitions and had no problems, so I am under the impression it has to do with the configuration of this system (also installed it on a desktop with the same configuration and had the same problem).

 

[Guest_imported]

Office will still install a lot of files on the C: partition even if you are installing it to a different partition. It seems that you may be out of drive space on the C: partition when office tries to use the virtual memory space. Try moving some files and programs to the other drive partition.

 

[dainamae]

The program files are on the c: partition. The d: partition is the system restore files. I don't know much about partitions - this is just how the computer was set up when it was purchased. There is over 750 MB left on the d: partition and over a GB left on the C: partition. Would you recommend uninstalling other programs from the C: partition? Or adjusting the Virtual Memory (I am nervous about doing that).

 

[lithanwif]

I have had the same problem on a Desktop as described, the out of memory was caused by me having true type fonts only marked. I still have not got the system to install correctly ( bizzarely word only has one font, yet all other ap's have all fonts available, even tried correl and it's the same ) And again bizzarely four other identical machines running identical setups are running office quite happily. I have just chalked it up to a windows psycho glitch, mumbled some words about contacting software vendors and left the office to come look here.

 

[elite1]

Try installing office 97 sr2b patch, here's the link.

http://office.microsoft.com/Downloads/9798/sr2off97detail.aspx

I'm not big on Norton Utilities, but I have found that Windoctor is usefull in finding registry problems where, for example, a shortcut points to a network drive or another partition and the executable was moved or the drive letter has changed. 99% of the time Windoctor will correct the entry with the right path and/or filename/driveletter, etc. You can do this by hand but it gets rather tedious. It is common to find triple digit invalid shortcut entries.