Tirnanog

If you read the thread you would see that I have installed office and reinstalled it many times on its own and with SP 2 and SP3 neither permutation make an iota of difference and as I have already stated the problem is well known and many people far more qualified that I cannot solve it. Just check the internet. As for the downloads they are all Microsoft security patches with the gross and those known to cause problems weeded out. Your enthusiasm for Bill Gates is touching maybe you work for them and the issues with Office is nothing to do with what I have or have not on the computer - it is purely sloppy customer care which is typical of Microsoft or else the problem would not be so wide spread. I like many others have an aversion to Microsoft putting spyware on my computer I will go open office first – the computer is clean safe virus and spyware free and I intend it to stay that way.
‘Workoni you will find serves under administrative tools / computer management / services and application. Please note very good guide called ‘Services Guide for Windows XP’ which gives you default settings and what he recommends – I made a careful note of those I changed – please do the same !!