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hmm... OfiiceXP and Win2K?
I've heard a few terrifying reports of mixing Office XP with Win2K.... Is anyaone aware of any problems and/or workarounds...or should i just stick to Office 2000....
Cheers, Paddy
Cheers, Paddy
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I'm running a full install of Office XP Professional Plus presently with Win2K SP2...no problems whatsoever.
My Win2K Box:
Gateway 8200R Mobo (Dual Slot 1 Intel 440BX)
2x Intel P3 450MHz
384MB SDRAM
Appian Jeronimo 2000 PCI (2x16MB Permedia 3s)
Adaptec 6910 10BT PCI NIC
Adaptec 2920U SCSI card
Creative/Digicom 5630 PCI Data/FAX/VoiceModem
Creative Labs AWE64 ISA Soundcard
Onboard Intel 10/100 Pro NIC
Onboard Adaptec 7890 Dual Channel UW SCSI
Onboard Cirrus Logic SVGA Adapter (Disabled)
2 x WD Enterprise 4.5GB UW SCSI HDD
Plextor Ultraplex Wide CD-ROM
Plextor 12/10/32 SCSI Burner w/BURN Proof
Pioneer 5x DVD-ROM
3.5" Floppy
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Hey Nice setup!
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I am running Win2K Pro: SP2 on the following:- T'bird 1GHz 200FSB on an Asus A7V (KT133)
- 256 Mb PC100 RAM
- Matrox G400 32MB Dual Head
- IBM DJNA-372200 21GB UDMA 66 Drive
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- Matshita DVD-ROM SR-8584A IDE
- Plextor PX-W1210S SCSI CD-RW
- Intel Pro/100+ Management Ethernet Adaptor
- Iwill 2936 Ultra Wide SCSI controller
- SB Live! 5.1
- Sony Multiscan CPD-G400 19"
- USB IntelliMouse Explorer Optical
- Creative WebCam Go! Plus 8Mb
- UM9800 V.90 USB Modem
- Tornado 1000 case (with six 80mm fans!)
- Cambridge SoundWorks DTT3500 5.1 speakers
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The only issues I've heard about with OfficeXP is that it is incompatible with the latest beta builds of WindowsXP.It cost one penny to cross, or one hundred gold pieces if you had a billygoat.
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hmm.... I'll give it a whirl then!The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing EnglandComment
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A very nice system for you as well!
My Duallie is my workaday box: CAD, Graphic design, Word Processing, Gateway/router, answering/voicemail/pager forwarding, email, etc...the occasional game. (I was surprised to see how well it played Rogue Spear with the Appian) In general, I try and set it up to be as bulletproof as possible.
I finally gave up on the SBlive! and stuck an old AWE64 in lieu of a Game Theatre that I currently cannot afford. (We don't need to beat on the Live! in Win2K here anymore...talk about a dead horse...but let's hope Creative gets it right with the SP2 driver release they've been promising.)
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No serious problems here either. Word did crash sometimes on exiting though with an error in vbe6.dll. I think it was caused by Acrobat 5.0's Office converter. I got rid of that and so far so good. But since it crashed after I told it to exit, it wasn't that bad anyway.
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The only problems I've run into are with Office XP and newer builds of Internet Explorer. Even some older builds. It probably isn't the IE per se but the system files it updates, as I think Win2kSP2 causes these problems to manifest as well.
The problem appears as IE or Explorer hanging randomly, making the entire machine HELLA slow, but task manager (when it finally comes up) shows all normal.
The problem is solved by killing the task CTFMON.EXE, and put to bed by renaming or deleting that file outright and making a text file of the same name that is read-only.
I find it difficult to believe that MS hasn't noticed this problem in-house, since Office XP is done and has been for a couple months now.
- Gurm
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Thanks for the replies!
Gurm: I'll try getting rid of that file.... Do you know what it does?The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing EnglandComment
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Cheers all! I new I'd heard something bad about it!
I have to say Outlook XP is soooo much better than its previous incarnation.
I thought that £^&%ing paperclip was supposed to be redundent though...The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing EnglandComment
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I've installed OfficeXP on 3 seperate Win2k computers and have not had any troubles.
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