Well, here I am, sitting on my sofa, laptop on my knee and cat by my side, posting to my journal…
It’s good, but if only things were that easy?!! I’ve reinstalled Windows 98 and gone and fetched all the critical and not so critical updates – all well and good. Next I thought I would update the Microsoft Office 97 for Office 2000 (both small business editions). The former was shipped with this machine, the latter shipped with my desktop of about the same age and spec, both running Win98. Not unreasonable of me to suppose that the one could install nicely on the other. Now, we no longer have the disks we once did for Office 97 as these were destroyed in the fire of two years back, so I couldn’t uninstall it because the boffins at Microsoft dicate that you need the disks to do that….
No problem I thought, I’ll just upgrade… all well and good, it gives me the option and goes off, unfortunately it got close to disk full and never finished installing, although it didn’t say it hadn’t! and I was left with neither one version nor the other and no way of installing one way or the other seeings as (I think) something’s got stuck in the registry that’s stopping the installation process from firing up?!!
Dad managed to copy back some files from the backup tape, and Office 97 kind of works again, but I don’t think it’s all there. Anyone knows anything about getting computers to *forget* broken installs in their registries as I think that’s what up…?!!
Any info greatfully received…
