Hi Jim,
The experts in the Office groups may have a better answer, but....
The way I understand Office, when a user attempts to start an Office program for the
first time some per-user registry components need to be installed. Thus, the Office
source files need to be accessible and the user needs to have the necessary
permissions to install them.
The following are the steps I took to install Microsoft Office 2000 Professional on
my multi-user home computer so that members of groups other than Administrators are
not prompted with Error 1706 messages.
- Log in as the built-in Administrator and install Office 2000 Professional, making
certain that the Installation State for all Office features is set to "Run from my
Computer" (follow setup prompts, activate product, etc., and then reboot).
- Log in as the built-in Administrator, run the Local Users and Groups Console
(lusrmgr.msc) and for your "wife and kids " (that is, any user that is not already a
member of the Administrators group), add them to the Administrators group. For more
information, search Local Users and Groups Help for the topic titled: "To add a user
to a group".
- Log in as your "wife and kids", run each Microsoft Office application,
and if/when setup prompts for the CD-ROM insert it.
- Log in as the built-in Administrator, run lusrmgr.msc and remove any users you
added earlier. For more information, see the Notes section in the aforementioned
Help topic.
If you do not want to install all of Office to "Run from my Computer", but want to
use the "Installed on First Use" feature, the following Microsoft Knowledge Base
Article may help:
KB258847 - OFF2000: Error Message: "The Feature You Are Trying to Use Is on a Network
Resource That Is Unavailable" or "Error 1706"
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=258847
And if the above does not help, I suggest that you post to the following newsgroup
and make certain you include additional details like: the version of Office you
installed, the Installation Options you used, and whether or not you upgraded Office:
Microsoft Communities Newsgroups: microsoft.public.office.setup
http://communities.microsoft.com/ne...ID=US&newsgroup=microsoft.public.office.setup
--
Carrie Garth, Microsoft MVP for Windows 2000
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: I have set up my computer with myself as the
: administrator, and my wife and kids as users. I installed
: Office thru my logon, and although it is on their
: desktops, every time they try to access it, microsoft
: installer "pops up" and gives me a 1706 error. This
: computer is only used by one person at a time. What
: mistake did I make, and how might I correct it?
