Scott:
SUCCESS!!!
After much back and forth, and with thanks to "Smart
Computing" magazine's technical staff (they directed me to MSFT support, as
their sense was direct incompatability with Vista as being most probable), I
ended up last night speaking with 4 MSFT reps. The last, reading from the
"book", officially told me PP2003 is supposed to be compatible with all OS
after XP. he then unofficially indicated it might be wise to upgrade my Vista
Home Premium to Business or Ultimate as they most probably would be more
compatable with a "professional" product. As this would be a $245 upgrade I
elected not to do that.
My company's IT guy then came up with a solution that WORKS! There's a
company called VMWare (
http://www.vmware.com/download/) that offers a
product that will simulate an XP OS on your Vista machine. My IT guy gave me
a disk with a Reader and the desktop simulator (4 GB of material), which I
have
successfully installed and am up and running.
BOTTOM LINE? Project Professional 2003 and Visio 2003 does not appear to be
compatible with Vista Home Premium (at least) at the present time. Positions
that disagree with this conclusion are cordially invited.
PS: the MSFT guy indicated I should monitor this forum for any subsequent
patches that may be produced to solve this clear issue.
Hope all this helps someone out there save the hours it took us (at least me
and Scott) to get here.
Dan
"Dan" wrote:
> You're welcome, Scott. Now, keep in mind, I am not a technical person, I'm a
> manager type, so whatever I now say should be taken accordingly. I was
> getting into a similar loop as you and have decided to uninstall PP and
> Visio. I then ran CC Cleaner (free software) to clean the registry and then
> Advanced System Optimizer for general principle. I next ran another free app
> (diskeeper) to defrag the page file and everything else.
>
> I am now back to a 'clean' position. I have emailed the folks at Smart
> Computing to see if they can come up with any solution. If that fails, I will
> next call Microsoft, as I am still within my 90 day window for free service
> calls.
>
> If all that produces any results, I'll be sure to post it here.
>
> Good luck, Buddy. we're in this together <g>!!
>
> Dan
>
> "SCBlur" wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks Dan. At least we know that this problem can be replicated across
> > machines, although it seems now that I'm paying the price for
> > troubleshooting.
> >
> > I uninstalled Office Small Business 2007 (OEM with the Dell) to see if
> > loading Visio and/or Project 2003 would load without it resident. When
> > that didn't work I reloaded Office during which the installer seems to
> > get stuck in a loop where it says it has to configure Office 2007 every
> > time I open one of the programs. To make matters worse it does the same
> > thing for each mail message I receive through Outlook! ARGH!!!!!!
> >
> > Microsoft can you PLEASE put out a product that isn't buggy? How can
> > Office 2007 - your latest and greatest - have install problems with
> > your latest OS?????
> >
> > I'm at wits end (short of reloading the entire system from scratch
> > which I'm really loathe to do).
> >
> > Dan? Anyone?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
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