<quote>
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
compatible with a "professional" product.
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That Microsoft employee should be fired for suggesting that.
-Michael
* Dan:
> 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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