Error 1706 Appears when running Office 2000 Programme (Word, Excel etc) (WinXP Professional)
This is because the User is “Limited” or “Guest” and does not have the appropriate access as written to the Registry when Office 2000 was first installed.
(e.g.Office 2000 may have been installed over a network or from a shared CD on a network Machine)
The following resolution worked for me You will need Office 2000 Installation CD 1 and CD2
For Limited Users
This is a bit more complicated. You need to Put “Guest” into the “Administrators” Group temporarily.
Then run points 5 to 16 above
Then take “Guest” out of the “Administrators” Group.
To add Guest to Administrators Group
Start | Control Panel | Performance and Maintenance | Administrative Tools | Computer Management
Expand Users in Local Users and Groups
Right Click on Guest and select Properties
Select Member of TAB
Click on Add
Type Administrators at the cursor in the box “Enter the object name to select”
Click OK
Click Apply Button
Click OK and close all windows.
Guest is now a member of both Guest and Administrators groups and has Administrator privileges.
Log on as Guest and run points 5 to 15 as for Limited User above.
To remove Guest from Administrators Group
Start | Control Panel | Performance and Maintenance | Administrative Tools | Computer Management
Expand Users in Local Users and Groups
Right Click on Guest and select Properties
Select Member of TAB
Click on Administrators
Click on Remove
Click OK
Click Apply Button
Click OK and close all windows.
This is because the User is “Limited” or “Guest” and does not have the appropriate access as written to the Registry when Office 2000 was first installed.
(e.g.Office 2000 may have been installed over a network or from a shared CD on a network Machine)
The following resolution worked for me You will need Office 2000 Installation CD 1 and CD2
For Limited Users
- Log off the Limited User(s)
- Log on as a user with Administrative Privileges
- Give the Limited User(s) Administrative privileges through Control Panel | User Accounts
- Log on as each Limited User(s) in turn (to refresh privileges ) and for each User do points 5 to 15
- Insert Office 2000 CD 1 into CD drive
- Run MSWord
- At Update screen Browse to Office 2000 CD 1
- OK
- Run MS Excel and browse to CD1 if needed
- Run Ms Powerpoint and browse to CD if needed
- For Publisher
- Insert Office 2000 CD 2
- Run MS Publisher
- At Update screen Browse to Office 2000 CD 2 if needed
- OK
- Reset User privileges to Limited as required.
This is a bit more complicated. You need to Put “Guest” into the “Administrators” Group temporarily.
Then run points 5 to 16 above
Then take “Guest” out of the “Administrators” Group.
To add Guest to Administrators Group
Start | Control Panel | Performance and Maintenance | Administrative Tools | Computer Management
Expand Users in Local Users and Groups
Right Click on Guest and select Properties
Select Member of TAB
Click on Add
Type Administrators at the cursor in the box “Enter the object name to select”
Click OK
Click Apply Button
Click OK and close all windows.
Guest is now a member of both Guest and Administrators groups and has Administrator privileges.
Log on as Guest and run points 5 to 15 as for Limited User above.
To remove Guest from Administrators Group
Start | Control Panel | Performance and Maintenance | Administrative Tools | Computer Management
Expand Users in Local Users and Groups
Right Click on Guest and select Properties
Select Member of TAB
Click on Administrators
Click on Remove
Click OK
Click Apply Button
Click OK and close all windows.
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