Office installing per machine rather than per user

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Dave McGee

I have a windows 2000 pc and I'M loading Office 95 on it.
Its a job i'm doing and office 95 is what the client has
and doesnt want to upgrade to office 2000...
However when I install it on the PC and log off and back
on again, I have to reinstall it per user. Its goin into a
school and need to make the installation per machine ...so
I would like to install it once and no matter who logs
back on its already installed...
HELP Please
 
Greetings --

This is quite common if the software was designed for Win9x/Me, or
if it was intended for WinNT/2K/XP, but was improperly designed. Quite
simply, the installation routine for this application doesn't "know"
how to handle individual user profiles, or the application tries to
make changes to "off-limits" sections of the registry. Quite often,
you can make this software available to other users by _copying_ the
Start Menu folder and Desktop folder shortcuts from the user profile
from which the software was installed in the corresponding folders in
the user profile(s) in which you'd like the software to be
accessible. If the application is something that can/should be made
available to all current and future users, copying the shortcuts into
the corresponding locations of the All Users profile will do the
trick.

NOTE: This may not work if the software requires access to parts
of the hard drive, system folders, and/or registry that are not
normally accessible to regular users. (This won't occur if the
application was properly written.) If this does prove to be the case,
however, you're left with three options: Either grant the necessary
users appropriate higher access privileges (either as Power Users or
local administrators), grant the users specific access permissions to
those parts of the registry affected, or replace the application with
one that was properly designed specifically for WinNT/2K/XP.


Bruce Chambers

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