Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Problems running MS Office under LUA

The past month I have spent a lot of time trying to correct problems introduced when I installed MS Office 2003 Professional from CD onto a machine running fully updated XP Professional.

The main problem is that Windows Installer is automatically launched when you start any Office program, or Internet Explorer, if the account does not have admin privileges. This is quite irritating and frustrating, amd my efforts has been quite tedious and frustrating too. I did a lot of searching online at both Microsoft and elsewhere, and posted on some forums without luck.