[RESOLVED] Office 2000 beta expiration

[SoccerFiend76]

I am getting a message that is saying that the office 2k beta has expired and to get the retail version. Since I don't actually have the beta installed I am curious. The disks from Ms technet are here but theu have not bee installed into this machine (the only machine to try it has since been formatted...twice)

I cannot find reference to office 2k in either add/remove programs in control panel and also not able to find in the regestry, which is where I believe the problem resides. Anyone know of the regestry keys involved? Any other ideas?

I have tried an unistall/reinstall of both ie5 and office 97

Any help would be appretiated.

Thanks in advance

GBJ

[Higg]

Follow this link and i think that's it.
IE5 seems zu give wierd messages in the Beta-release...
http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/zdnntop...310453,00.html

Higg

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[confus-ed]

The happy thingy, whatever it was called, virus can exhibit this behaviour, so try a virus scan first. The only way I've ever got rid of this on any system was a re-install.

[SoccerFiend76]

no virus

actuually it was beta version of an IE 5 component. A quick trip to the windows update site updating all components specifically the web folders part fixed the problem.

As for viruses both systems in my house have Norton av 5 with latest updates. Now that I have a cable modem I am paranoid about viruses as I am not the only one who uses the computers (roomates are download-a-holics)

Thanks for tip Higg I came accross the same article myself.

Cheers all,

GBJ

[SoccerFiend76]

no virus

actuually it was beta version of an IE 5 component. A quick trip to the windows update site updating all components specifically the web folders part fixed the problem.

As for viruses both systems in my house have Norton av 5 with latest updates. Now that I have a cable modem I am paranoid about viruses as I am not the only one who uses the computers (roomates are download-a-holics)

Thanks for tip Higg I came accross the same article myself.

Cheers all,

GBJ