XP pro conflict w/home edition

[paul patino]

I have an e machines w/preloaded XP home edition w/McAfee
that's been working fine for a couple of years. All of a
sudden (w/o any changes I can think of), when either my
wife or I click on our logon icon we get the following MS
Office XP Professional dialog box "..feature you are
trying to use is on a CD or other..disk that is not
available. Insert MS office XP Pro disk..and click OK."
Since I'm not running Pro and don't have a disk for
either, I click cancel and get "Error 1706"
regarding "proset.msi" file. I click OK and everything
works fine until next time one of us logs on and we go
through the same thing again. I keep virus scan updated.

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

It's asking for the OFFICE XP Pro CD, not a WinXP Pro CD.

Bruce Chambers

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"paul patino" > wrote in message
...
> I have an e machines w/preloaded XP home edition w/McAfee
> that's been working fine for a couple of years. All of a
> sudden (w/o any changes I can think of), when either my
> wife or I click on our logon icon we get the following MS
> Office XP Professional dialog box "..feature you are
> trying to use is on a CD or other..disk that is not
> available. Insert MS office XP Pro disk..and click OK."
> Since I'm not running Pro and don't have a disk for
> either, I click cancel and get "Error 1706"
> regarding "proset.msi" file. I click OK and everything
> works fine until next time one of us logs on and we go
> through the same thing again. I keep virus scan updated.

[paul patino]

I believe you're right Bruce, thanks. I didn't even think
of that even though I do have Office Pro.

>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings --
>
> It's asking for the OFFICE XP Pro CD, not a WinXP Pro
CD.
>
>Bruce Chambers
>
>--
>Help us help you:
>http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever
count on
>having both at once. -- RAH
>
>
>"paul patino" > wrote
in message
...
>> I have an e machines w/preloaded XP home edition
w/McAfee
>> that's been working fine for a couple of years. All of a
>> sudden (w/o any changes I can think of), when either my
>> wife or I click on our logon icon we get the following
MS
>> Office XP Professional dialog box "..feature you are
>> trying to use is on a CD or other..disk that is not
>> available. Insert MS office XP Pro disk..and click OK."
>> Since I'm not running Pro and don't have a disk for
>> either, I click cancel and get "Error 1706"
>> regarding "proset.msi" file. I click OK and everything
>> works fine until next time one of us logs on and we go
>> through the same thing again. I keep virus scan updated.
>
>
>.
>

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

You're welcome.

Bruce Chambers

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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH


"paul patino" > wrote in message
...
> I believe you're right Bruce, thanks. I didn't even think
> of that even though I do have Office Pro.
>