How to Install Office 2007 on Windows XP SP1

[ALLMAC4]

Office 2007 officially only supports Windows XP SP2 or higher, but there is a way to run it on Windows XP SP1.

 

1.Install Service Pack 2

2.Install Office 2007

3.Uninstall Service Pack 2

 

Then you can run Office 2007 on Windows XP SP1

[tekkaman]

Maybe there's a way to spoof the Windows version so you can also install it. But I have a question. Why not use SP2 ? Back when it was first released I noticed that my computer was faster with SP2 than without it.

[George King]

3 minutes ago, tekkaman said:

Maybe there's a way to spoof the Windows version so you can also install it. But I have a question. Why not use SP2 ? Back when it was first released I noticed that my computer was faster with SP2 than without it.

Could be done using Application Verifier very easy in same way how we can install Office 2010 on XP x64

Edited May 3, 2023 by George King

[netbookdelgob]

5 hours ago, tekkaman said:

Maybe there's a way to spoof the Windows version so you can also install it. But I have a question. Why not use SP2 ? Back when it was first released I noticed that my computer was faster with SP2 than without it.

The windows startup logo says "Professional edition" or "Home edition", when sp2 was released they removed it.

[mina7601]

52 minutes ago, netbookdelgob said:

The windows startup logo says "Professional edition" or "Home edition", when sp2 was released they removed it.

How is this relevant?

[jaclaz]

16 hours ago, tekkaman said:

Why not use SP2 ? Back when it was first released I noticed that my computer was faster with SP2 than without it.

Only as an example, SP2 removed PAE :

 

In the case you had a "good" motherboard with "good" drivers and lots (at the time) of RAM XP SP2 was a "downgrade".

But OP's procedure - unlike what the title suggests - does not actually install Office 2007 in SP1, it installs it on SP2 and then reverts back to SP1.

It is unknown if anything "sticks" after uninstalling the service Pack 2.

jaclaz

[tekkaman]

Doesn't many software require at least SP2 to run anyway ?

[WinFX]

On 5/5/2023 at 10:02 AM, tekkaman said:

Doesn't many software require at least SP2 to run anyway ?

Yes, only because of EncodePointer and DecodePointer

[reboot12]

On 5/3/2023 at 3:16 PM, ALLMAC4 said:

1.Install Service Pack 2

2.Install Office 2007

3.Uninstall Service Pack 2

You don't have to install SP2.

When the value of CSDVersion is default 256 DEC then install error:

but after changing value of the CSDVersion to 512 DEC and restart instalation goes:

Edited August 14, 2023 by reboot12