Office 2003 major problems

[idbubble]

Hi Every one .I seiously need some help here i have spent 4wks trying to find an answer to a problem Im having with installing office 2003??????????

Ok from the top..... Bought office 2003 back in 2004 august .Ok I had that installed on my Old Pc.the old one gave up the ghost !!

Over Doing it Mi Thinks

So out i went and bought myself a note book. Installed it on that ....No problems there??

Then i wanted to go back to a desk top so i Bought one !! :

then i wanted to install this on my new Pc aaaaaannnnnnnnnnd Guess what .........

so many problems i cant begin to explain.. the major problem with the install is this error

RUNTIME ERROR

MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ RUNTIME LIBRARY

Runtime error

ProgramsC:\Windows\Sytem32\MSIEXEC.EXE

This application has requested that the runtime to terminate in an unsusual way

1/ Not a Copy.

2. In very good Nick (not damaged)

3. have tried to install openOffice2.0 and i still get the very same message

Any Clues cos i have non

Cheers

Paul

IDbubble

[idbubble]

Come On people some one out there must have the answer to this

paul

[prathapml]

I get same error with Office 2007.

Remove windows installer 3.1, & reboot & then install the Windows Installer 3.1 v2.

[cluberti]

I second removing and reinstalling the installer engine. I've seen msiexec come broken by default on OEM installs from major vendors, and a reinstall fixes it. Not sure what they do to break it though .

[mannaoz]

I read this but am not sure how to do this .

Is this from control panel.

I thought this was a no no.

I am new to all this but need to fix my problem as posted toady on the forum re 2003 not being able to un install.

Thanks in advance

Jeff