[JBoDEAN]

Piece of garbage! I updated my office2000, now when I open up outlook or word, it opens/closes.....


I heard people get a "LOOP BOOT" to when they upgrade......Access is the only program i can open, and it will stay open.

Garbage =(


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[Tony]

is your copy of office 2000 registered?
you have to register it before you install the sr1 patch, the sr1 has a piracy protetion thing, that if its not registered it will not work.
first i installed the patch, and had this problem, so i uninstalled office 2000, then reinstalled it, then registered it, then applied the patch, it worked fine.
i have the o2k SB edition.

[JBoDEAN]

i believe it is registered, how can I tell?

Can you tell me how to back up (what ifles to copy to disk) for outlook 2000 so i don tloose my emails/settings incase i ahve to reinstall it?

[Tony]

it may be registered, but you have to do it everytime you install it, the software won't know if you've registered it or not if you had just done a clean install since the last time you registered it.
i believe you can just reinstall office 2k over the copy you have now, to save all your settings, then register it after setup, then apply the patch again.

[Rudy]

Well mine is not registered and it installed fine and everything seems to work (tried Access, Word, Excel, Powerpoint). I installed it via OfficeUpdate (dunno if there's another way).

[Tony]

well there is a cd you can buy, but thats about the only 2 ways

[Exorcist]

Re; the registered side of Office 2k..

It's my understanding from reading the notes/FAQ about it on the Microsoft Office webby, that owners of the normal Office2k disk are not required to register nor will they be required to register when the SR-1 patch is applied.

New copies of Office2k, however, which incorporate the SR-1 patch already, will be required to register within 50 occasions of opening the program, after those 50 times the program will cease to work.

I installed it yesterday, not had any problem with it whatsoever

Exorcist

[slkh]

>New copies of Office2k, however, which >incorporate the SR-1 patch already, will be >required to register within 50 occasions of >opening the program, after those 50 times >the program will cease to work.

You mean electronic registration?

What happen I do not have internet connection or BBS or modem connection but I register through the card that include in the package? Will Office 2000 automatically update its code so that it will continue to work after 50 times?

[Exorcist]

Electronic Registration is the main way, I believe - you send off your Key as part of the registration - and the Microsoft Centre or whatever it's called will send u back another code to finally register the product.

Presumably it works the same way through the card - they should send you the other code which would register the product.

That's what I read into it anyway

Exorcist

[badboy]

Apparently exsisting unregistered users of office 2000 will not be affected by the new use it 50 times and register it, All downloads of SR-1 do's not contain this registration code only newly purchased versions apply as from May 2000. Ive downloaded SR-1 and my office 2000 is fine all programs working perfectly.

[DocSilly]

[apruch]

I've had the same problem with Frontpage 2000 after installing SR-1. Frontpage closes as soon as I start it. Unistall office SR-1 and reinstall old office. Yeah Win 2k blows.

[Shrink]

It has NOTHING to do with Windows 2000 but MS's anti piracy scheme. MS knows which serial #'s are in wide distribution and included a check for them. If they are detected then Office will be rendered inoperable. I know from first hand experience :-)


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[TonyMontana]

Is there anyway to download the service pack with out doing the automated file.. which is like 500k I want to download it for a friend who is not on a fast connect? anyone help?

[jabbathewocket]

heres the url's you need for the data1.msp (office 2000 premium cd1) and data2.msp (publisher) http://msvaus.www.conxion.com/download/office2000prem/Update/3821/WIN98/EN-US/data1.msp
http://msvaus.www.conxion.com/download/office2000prem/Update/3821/WIN98/EN-US/data2.msp

hope this helps

[nova]

RE: Apps open and then immediately close again.

I've read the following MS Knowledge Base articles, and I don't think they'll help very much in your situation, but who knows?

Q224432 - OFF2000: Program Quits Immediately After Starting

Q236592 - OFF2000: Error Messages Starti...or Windows 2000

Good luck!

nova.