Paste the text (right-click and select paste) into the filename area of the Run Dialog, and click OK or press Enter. Open the Run Dialog from the Start Menu, or open a Command Prompt. (msiexec /p c:\office\MAINSP1_Admin.msp /a c:\office\proplus.msi SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb /L* c:\office\sp1Log.log) The currently installed Office XP will not be updated until STEP 5.
NOTE: STEP 4 updates the files in the Administrative Installation Point only.
This step causes the Service Pack 2 Administrative Patch files to be integrated into the Administrative Installation Point. The folder c:\Office\ now contains the Administrative Installation Point and the Service Pack 2 Administrative Patch files.
STEP 4 - Update the Administrative Installation Point Type c:\Office\ as the destination path to extract. STEP 3 - Extract Service Pack 1 Administrative Update STEP 2 - Download Service Pack 1 Administrative Update It will take several minutes for the entire contents of CD 1 are extracted into the c:\Office\ folder. see example 2Īfter entering the information, click Next, and allow the installation to complete.
Leave the install location, c:\Office\ as it is. Type in your company name, and product key. Office XP Administrative Setup will run, and the Administrative Installation window will appear. Where X represents the letter of the CD-ROM drive:ģ. Insert Office XP CD 1 into the CD-ROM drive.įrom a Command Prompt or from the Run Dialog type the following and click OK (or hit the Enter key) To create an Administrative Installation Point, Office XP CD 1 is required.
STEP 1 - Create an Administrative Installation Point System Error: -1072807676įor more information, see Help and Support Center at. For more information contact your patch vendor. It has probably been updated by other means, and can no longer be modified by this patch. Error applying patch to file c:\Config.Msi\PT190.tmp. (Product: Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage - Error 1328. Both methods will report the same error.Ī typical error message when attempting to update to Service Pack 2 is: The user may have either used the Office Update Website or downloaded the oxpsp12.exe file to the local computer. This alternative method only works with the Enterprise/Corporate edition of Office XP. This article provides an alternative method of Office Update will now recognize that SP1 has been installed, and will allow the installation of newer patches.) After the download is complete it will install in only a few seconds. The best way to get Office Update to recognize SP2 is to then download and install SP2 through the Office Update website. (note: After applying this update fix, the MS Office Update website may incorrectly show the update as not installed.
So when you install your software is at SP level! Like Windows 2000 and XP you can apply a service pack to your installation source files of Office. cab files reside on my PC, and then pointed/browsed the installer to that directory where it detected these necessary files and proceeded to complete the install without a problem.(DON"T THINK THIS WORKS WITH RETAIL OXP. So, while in the midst of trying to run the MS Office SP3 update and being prompted for these files, I went to BillyNDA's website posted above, downloaded both the proplus.msi and office1.cab files to my C:\I386 directory where the other. cab files as I saw explained elsewhere when I first loaded them in my CD drive, I received a pop-up message that said "these files are designed to work only with HP computer"). I am a legal MS Office user but don't have the original disks and didn't want to hassle with either requesting them from my PC's vendor (who I'm not even sure is still around today it was four years or more ago) or extracting them from the recovery disks I have (I looked at the files on these three disks and none have these required files were shown they appear to be, and I suspect they are, somehow specially encrypted.