Frontpage 2000 mess with Office 97 & Win 98

[David T. Darnell]

I have been having problems after installing Frontpage 2000 to Win 98 (or Win 95) with a full Office 97 installation. Under Win 98, task/start bar is dead but all else works. Under Win 95, got all kinds of system degredation, missing system files, can't start comctl32, etc.

Is there some kind of compatability issue?

Thanks,

Dave

[Walter Kennedy]

Oops! We run Office97 with Frontpage2000 at work with no problem! Are you running Version 2 of Win98? If not you should upgrade now! Also, you don't say if you have installed SR2 in your Office97 full install. If you haven't you may have to re-install everything to get anything to run. Most of the DLLs should be compatible, but who knows? I have not used, or seen anybody use, anything like Windows95 with any of this stuff. The 16bit OS may not like all those 32bit calls. Why do you need Win95?

Good luck and let me know what happens!!

Walt Kennedy

[Nick Walton]

You should be aware that you cannot just install a program from a later Office suite onto a computer already running one or more components of an earlier suite. There will be issues of new files having the same name but not running with the older version programs. What you need to do is simply direct the installation of FrontPage 2000 into a different folder from the deafult Office installation:

eg. C:\Program Files\Office2000

and leave all the Office97 stuff alone in:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office

I have done this when installing Publisher 2000 onto Win98SE machines running Office97 and it worked just fine.

You may need to uninstall all of the Office programs on any machines which are now unhappy and then re-install taking the above into account.

Regards,

Nick Walton
Windmill Hill Community Forum
England