Problem installing Office 97 Professional SR2b patch in Vista "Don" <donhyams[ at ]gmail.com> 3/24/2007 9:01:30 PM QUESTIONS: 1. Has anyone figured out how to successfully install the Office 97 Pro Service Release 2 patch in Vista? 2. Has anyone successfully installed an Office 97 Pro CD (SR2 version) in Vista? DETAILS: My setup: Dell Inspiron notebook with Vista Business edition My CD: Office 97 Professional (Service Release 1) Upgrade I had no problems installing from the Office 97 CD. I ran the setup.exe file on the CD "as administrator" with no errors. When I tried to install Service Release 2b (SR2b) patch (again, as administrator), the installation failed. Scanning the SR2b installation log, I noticed the following lines that indicated problems. At the end of the "Access bucket file copy starts" section are the lines: * Move C:\Windows\Fonts\tahoma.ttf to C:\Windows\Fonts\sr1E639.tmp * Unable to open C:\Windows\Fonts\tahoma.ttf * sr2 patch fail Under the following "Back up has started...." section are the lines: * deleted C:\Windows\Fonts\tahoma.ttf * unable to restore C:\Windows\Fonts\sr1E639.tmp to C:\Windows\Fonts \tahoma.ttf * Backup has finished. * The patch has rollback the file copy due to either user cancelation or problem w/ file copy. Your system has been restored to its orginal state. If you did not cancel the file copy, please contact Microsoft Technical Support to upgrade to Office 97 SR2. * The sr2 patch has failed UPGRADING TO A NEWER VERSION OF ACCESS: I understand that some will suggest that we "buy a newer version". Besides the huge financial investment required to upgrade all of our workstations (both hardware and software/licenses), there's the multiple conversion steps involved with moving our many Access projects to the newest versions (97 to 2000/2002/2003 then to 2007). http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/1dce641e-ba1c-446a-8ff2-221769a58ba51033.mspx?mfr=true) I've also read that the later versions of Access are more buggy and slower than the 97 version. Office 97 meets our needs and has been working great. I just hope I can get it to work in Vista (fingers crossed).

Re: Problem installing Office 97 Professional SR2b patch in Vista "DL" <address[ at ]invalid> 3/25/2007 12:03:03 AM Other posts in this group have suggested that only Office2003 and above is fully compatible with vista "Don" <donhyams[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1174770090.296307.275730[ at ]b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > QUESTIONS: > 1. Has anyone figured out how to successfully install the Office 97 > Pro Service Release 2 patch in Vista? > 2. Has anyone successfully installed an Office 97 Pro CD (SR2 > version) in Vista? > > > DETAILS: > My setup: Dell Inspiron notebook with Vista Business edition > My CD: Office 97 Professional (Service Release 1) Upgrade > > I had no problems installing from the Office 97 CD. I ran the > setup.exe file on the CD "as administrator" with no errors. > > When I tried to install Service Release 2b (SR2b) patch (again, as > administrator), the installation failed. Scanning the SR2b > installation log, I noticed the following lines that indicated > problems. > > At the end of the "Access bucket file copy starts" section are the > lines: > > * Move C:\Windows\Fonts\tahoma.ttf to C:\Windows\Fonts\sr1E639.tmp > * Unable to open C:\Windows\Fonts\tahoma.ttf > * sr2 patch fail > > Under the following "Back up has started...." section are the lines: > > * deleted C:\Windows\Fonts\tahoma.ttf > * unable to restore C:\Windows\Fonts\sr1E639.tmp to C:\Windows\Fonts > \tahoma.ttf > * Backup has finished. > * The patch has rollback the file copy due to either user cancelation > or problem w/ file copy. Your system has been restored to its orginal > state. If you did not cancel the file copy, please contact Microsoft > Technical Support to upgrade to Office 97 SR2. > * The sr2 patch has failed > > > UPGRADING TO A NEWER VERSION OF ACCESS: I understand that some will > suggest that we "buy a newer version". Besides the huge financial > investment required to upgrade all of our workstations (both hardware > and software/licenses), there's the multiple conversion steps involved > with moving our many Access projects to the newest versions (97 to > 2000/2002/2003 then to 2007). > http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/1dce641e-ba1c-446a-8ff2-221769a58ba51033.mspx?mfr=true) > I've also read that the later versions of Access are more buggy and > slower than the 97 version. > > Office 97 meets our needs and has been working great. I just hope I > can get it to work in Vista (fingers crossed). >

Re: Problem installing Office 97 Professional SR2b patch in Vista "JoAnn Paules" <jl_paules[ at ]hotmail.com> 3/25/2007 1:52:54 PM I can understand the desire to not spend money and invest the time to upgrade however eventually they comes a point when software is no longer functional on new a new OS. Since Office 97 was released, Windows 98, 98SE, ME, and XP were released. The fact that it continued to work on 4 (combining 98 and 98SE) different operating systems is something that you should be quite happy about. But now it's time to make a change. Your office software is over 10 years old and you are doing yourself and your employees a disservice. I know you didn't want to hear this but I also know that you suspect this much already. -- JoAnn Paules Microsoft MVP - Publisher How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "Don" <donhyams[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1174770090.296307.275730[ at ]b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > QUESTIONS: > 1. Has anyone figured out how to successfully install the Office 97 > Pro Service Release 2 patch in Vista? > 2. Has anyone successfully installed an Office 97 Pro CD (SR2 > version) in Vista? > > > DETAILS: > My setup: Dell Inspiron notebook with Vista Business edition > My CD: Office 97 Professional (Service Release 1) Upgrade > > I had no problems installing from the Office 97 CD. I ran the > setup.exe file on the CD "as administrator" with no errors. > > When I tried to install Service Release 2b (SR2b) patch (again, as > administrator), the installation failed. Scanning the SR2b > installation log, I noticed the following lines that indicated > problems. > > At the end of the "Access bucket file copy starts" section are the > lines: > > * Move C:\Windows\Fonts\tahoma.ttf to C:\Windows\Fonts\sr1E639.tmp > * Unable to open C:\Windows\Fonts\tahoma.ttf > * sr2 patch fail > > Under the following "Back up has started...." section are the lines: > > * deleted C:\Windows\Fonts\tahoma.ttf > * unable to restore C:\Windows\Fonts\sr1E639.tmp to C:\Windows\Fonts > \tahoma.ttf > * Backup has finished. > * The patch has rollback the file copy due to either user cancelation > or problem w/ file copy. Your system has been restored to its orginal > state. If you did not cancel the file copy, please contact Microsoft > Technical Support to upgrade to Office 97 SR2. > * The sr2 patch has failed > > > UPGRADING TO A NEWER VERSION OF ACCESS: I understand that some will > suggest that we "buy a newer version". Besides the huge financial > investment required to upgrade all of our workstations (both hardware > and software/licenses), there's the multiple conversion steps involved > with moving our many Access projects to the newest versions (97 to > 2000/2002/2003 then to 2007). > http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/1dce641e-ba1c-446a-8ff2-221769a58ba51033.mspx?mfr=true) > I've also read that the later versions of Access are more buggy and > slower than the 97 version. > > Office 97 meets our needs and has been working great. I just hope I > can get it to work in Vista (fingers crossed). >