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The program is installed. But it also does a per user install as it fully support XP's user model (one user can't affect another). It is not copying winword.exe over, it's customising for that specific user (after all one user may speak english and another german). To control users one uses group policy which office also fully supports. Also it may need to configure the current install to suit the user's roaming profile. Many features of Office are also Install On First Use by default. This is so only parts used on a machine get installed on that machime.
Copy Office CD to hard/network drive and run setup from there. This is the easist way, esp for home users. If space is an issue tell setup to run office from CD/Network (meaning whereever you started setup from). Then only user specific files will get copyed at all (dictionaries etc).
For companies read help. Setup can create an administration point. It similar to above but allows more structured custmisation of setup. But it works pretty much the same and ends up copying the CD (but in a flatter directory structure so companies can apply transforms and roll patches into it) and you can still tell it to run from CD/Network or not.
That said every user of mine has complained at the per user part. I don't know why MS did it this way. It annoys everyone. But it is very clever, just annoying as well.
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"Robert Jacobs" <rjacobs0spamfree@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:u9GJ6CBDFHA.2288@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> There is not alot of computer sharing in a business enviroment these days
> anyways.....
>
> "H0PE" <H0PE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:310A99B5-66A5-4A64-B79E-D57249A0907D@microsoft.com...
>> Actually I don't believe that should be the _normal_ sollution for that.
>> In a
>> business enviroment, you just cannot customize office every time when a
>> new
>> user logs in to the machine!
>>
>> There should be a default configuration for all the users I recon.
>>
>> "Bruce Chambers" wrote:
>>
>>> ?WhyMe? wrote:
>>> > Hi, everyone...
>>> >
>>> > I've had some problems with the installation of programs over multiple
>>> > user
>>> > accounts in Windows XP Professional:
>>> >
>>> > For example, when I installed Office XP from within my personal
>>> > administrator account, I am able to use the program just fine from my
>>> > account. But, if I try to access Word, Excel, etc., from another user
>>> > account (even if that user has administrative privileges), XP prompts
>>> > me to
>>> > insert the Office CD so that I can install the program.
>>>
>>>
>>> That's perfectly normal. Office is simply adding some components to
>>> the new user profile to speed up future use.
>>>
>>>
>>> > When I cancel out
>>> > of the installation process, the program loads anyway -- therefore, I
>>> > know
>>> > that that account *can* access the software; but I'm not sure why
>>> > Windows XP
>>> > thinks it isn't installed, and thus asks for me to insert the
>>> > installation
>>> > CD.
>>> >
>>> > Any thoughts, anyone??
>>> >
>>>
>>> Don't cancel the installation; simply let it finish, and that user
>>> should never see the prompt again.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Bruce Chambers
>>>
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