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Microsoft forums reject posts "unknown error"

Why don't you ask your technical question here?

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Mele - I uploaded it to my Megaupload account.
IM me if you want it

Thank you Barbara Ann, but I have the file. It won't install. I wanted to ask at the Microsoft forums why it won't install.

The error returned is:

"This MSFixit does not apply to your operating system or application version".

Yet the KB article states:

"The Fix it solution applies to Office XP on Windows XP-based systems, and the Fix it solution addresses issues in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Publisher, and Microsoft Visio."

I don't have the full Office XP. I have Word 2002. I have been doing all Word specific AND Office XP updates (so I have Office XP SP3 currently) since I got the computer before this one with Word 2002 and then later this computer with another copy of Word 2002 on it. When there was a Office Update site, and I would let it check my computer, it always had me install ANY Office XP updates/patches not just Word patches.

That error message makes no sense. This is an XP Fixit so how could this Fixit "not apply to your operating system"?
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[url]»support.microsoft.com/kb/983632/en-US/[/url]

[url]»support.microsoft.com/kb/983235[/url]

The Fix it solution applies to Office XP on Windows XP-based systems, and the Fix it solution addresses issues in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Publisher, and Microsoft Visio.

APPLIES TO
Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007
Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003
Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003
Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003
Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003
Microsoft Office Access 2003
Microsoft Office Excel 2003
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Viewer
Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
Microsoft Office Word 2003
Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003
Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003
Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003
Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003

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Mele - no Word 2002
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Duh! How did I miss that? I read that list earlier and my brain just thought it saw Word 2002 there.

Thank you again! I guess it is just as well that I couldn't post at Microsoft forums. So, is Word 2002 not vulnerable or has it gone completely unsupported now (even for security patches...I got one for it quite recently) and thus not included?
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Re: Microsoft forums reject posts "unknown error"

I did choose 'US view' at the OED. I believe Hawaii is part of the USA, no?

But if that's not good enough, here's George and Noah:

»www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social

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Re: Microsoft forums reject posts "unknown error"

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Is this the link to the Newsgroups?

»www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expe···en&cr=US

Yes, that's it. Thanks. They are all gone on Outlook Express... I checked all the ones I subscribe to and they are all gone now and most of them have no place to post on Microsoft's "social" forums. It's a sad day in the history of MIcrosoft.

As Bruce Hagen says in the XP one, on the page you linked to, the newsgroups will continue to be carried on SOME independent news servers but no one knows for how long or what the quality of responses will be (or how much porn, etc there will be).

My ISP dropped News Groups a couple of years ago so I would have to subscribe to a free, independent news reader I guess to get them and I doubt they will remain the outstanding support they were when they belonged to Microsoft so I don't know if it is worth it to even go looking for a free newsreader that is carrying them after Sept 1.

A main reason Microsoft is doing this is to further the killing of both IE6 and Outlook Express and XP. Microsoft hates that so many users are running XP inside Windows 7 just so they can have Outlook Express. Microsoft also has no support in their forums for Virtual PC 2007SP1 and there was an outstanding MS News Group for it. Microsoft wants it dead too even though all of us without hardware virtualization can't run the newer version.

As for what answers I needed at the Microsoft forums, it turns out I got one answer here and the other issue, since there is also no Windows Updates forum at the Microsoft "social" forums and that was another really fine MS News Group, I decided to just try and install the security patch that I had the question about. The KB article has said it was only for Windows 2000 but the title of the article included XP. So, I figured if it was only for 2000 it wouldn't install. So, I tried installing it and got a message saying not that it was only for W2000 but saying I needed to have Windows Media Encoder installed first. Well, I do ...at least I have all the files but on another drive and a lot of those files were cloned from my previous XP machine. So, maybe I just have the files but don't actually have WM Encoder. Anyhow, I guess I don't need the MS forum to ask that question.
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Mele, why are you sticking with such an outdated software toolset? XP & Word 2002 are now 9 years old... might be time to move on. You can't really expect Microsoft to keep supporting them forever, can you?
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My computer is only 4.5 years old. NOT nine. Word 2002 was purchased in FEBRUARY 2006 as a part of Microsoft Works Suite 2006 so it is slightly over 4 years old. This is a $3000 gaming computer that still works great. I will only buy a new one if I can't get further extended warranty after next Feb 1.

I like XP and Word 2002. I have Vista Ultimate and I don't care for it much because of how Explorer is different, search is pathetic and you have to use Agent Ransack instead, and all the unnecessary security crap that gets in your way. I had the beta of Win 7 and it is worse than Vista what with the insane changes in Start, task bar, even worse search than what is in Vista and no way to use Themes. I have no interest in Aero and I expected Microsoft to continue Classic view but in Win 7 beta at least they have tried to ditched that and wish to force Aero or an extremely ugly accessibility theme. (Maybe that changed with the official release version. I don't know) I want to use MY themes that I use on XP. I can do so on Vista and that is the only reason I prefer Vista to Win 7. At least, I can make Vista look nice. You can't do that with Win 7 if you don't use Aero. I also do NOT want IE8 (not that I use IE much). IE 8 will not honor my font settings. It keeps making the font gigantic (which I needed until I had my first eye surgery in April and now I use small fonts but IE8 won't allow that beside all the other problems with IE after IE6 like the horrible use of space, the completely crapped up tool bars and address bar).

As for Word when Microsoft went to the ribbon that was the end of Word. They ruined it and Office also. Plus, there is no Works Suite anymore. Microsoft is replacing that EXCELLENT suite with some crap garbage on all OEM 64 bit computers sold after Jun 15 some shit Office 2010 starter package. I don't want Office. I want Works Suite. I have had several of them over the years and loved them. Microsoft goes DOWNHILL with each new OS and other software.
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When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Thomas Jefferson