Problems re-installing Office 2000

I am having trouble re-installing Office 2000. I do the re-install and get
almost to the end and get and error message:
Error 1918 Error installing ODBC Driver Microsoft Text Driver (txt)(csv)
ODBC error 13.

I found this driver on the 98 CD and installed it. I can get Word to come up
but when I try to get Excel to open I get the following message:

Windows Installer failed to install the program associated with this file.
Please contact your system adm.

Any suggestions as to what to do?

Thanks

Hi Jerry,

Try d/loading and installing the most recent version of MDAC (Microsoft Data
Access Components). The d/load is available from he
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/downl...ault.aspx#MDAC

After installing MDAC, restart, insert the Office 2000 install CD, open
Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, select Office 2000 and opt to Repair
Office.



Regards,

--
Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

"Jerry" wrote in message
...
I am having trouble re-installing Office 2000. I do the re-install and get
almost to the end and get and error message:
Error 1918 Error installing ODBC Driver Microsoft Text Driver (txt)(csv)
ODBC error 13.

I found this driver on the 98 CD and installed it. I can get Word to come
up
but when I try to get Excel to open I get the following message:

Windows Installer failed to install the program associated with this file.
Please contact your system adm.

Any suggestions as to what to do?

Thanks

Thanks, it worked perfectly.

"Patti MacLeod" wrote:

Hi Jerry,

Try d/loading and installing the most recent version of MDAC (Microsoft Data
Access Components). The d/load is available from he
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/downl...ault.aspx#MDAC

After installing MDAC, restart, insert the Office 2000 install CD, open
Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, select Office 2000 and opt to Repair
Office.



Regards,

--
Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

"Jerry" wrote in message
...
I am having trouble re-installing Office 2000. I do the re-install and get
almost to the end and get and error message:
Error 1918 Error installing ODBC Driver Microsoft Text Driver (txt)(csv)
ODBC error 13.

I found this driver on the 98 CD and installed it. I can get Word to come
up
but when I try to get Excel to open I get the following message:

Windows Installer failed to install the program associated with this file.
Please contact your system adm.

Any suggestions as to what to do?

Thanks

You're very welcome :-)



Regards,

--
Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

"Jerry" wrote in message
...
Thanks, it worked perfectly.

"Patti MacLeod" wrote:

Hi Jerry,

Try d/loading and installing the most recent version of MDAC (Microsoft
Data
Access Components). The d/load is available from he
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/downl...ault.aspx#MDAC

After installing MDAC, restart, insert the Office 2000 install CD, open
Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, select Office 2000 and opt to
Repair
Office.



Regards,

--
Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

"Jerry" wrote in message
...
I am having trouble re-installing Office 2000. I do the re-install and
get
almost to the end and get and error message:
Error 1918 Error installing ODBC Driver Microsoft Text Driver
(txt)(csv)
ODBC error 13.

I found this driver on the 98 CD and installed it. I can get Word to
come
up
but when I try to get Excel to open I get the following message:

Windows Installer failed to install the program associated with this
file.
Please contact your system adm.

Any suggestions as to what to do?

Thanks

There are 2 security updates regarding an MDAC security breach problem at
the windows update site.

"Jerry" wrote in message
...
Thanks, it worked perfectly.

"Patti MacLeod" wrote:

Hi Jerry,

Try d/loading and installing the most recent version of MDAC (Microsoft
Data
Access Components). The d/load is available from he
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/downl...ault.aspx#MDAC

After installing MDAC, restart, insert the Office 2000 install CD, open
Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, select Office 2000 and opt to
Repair
Office.



Regards,

--
Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

"Jerry" wrote in message
...
I am having trouble re-installing Office 2000. I do the re-install and
get
almost to the end and get and error message:
Error 1918 Error installing ODBC Driver Microsoft Text Driver
(txt)(csv)
ODBC error 13.

I found this driver on the 98 CD and installed it. I can get Word to
come
up
but when I try to get Excel to open I get the following message:

Windows Installer failed to install the program associated with this
file.
Please contact your system adm.

Any suggestions as to what to do?

Thanks

"Lil' Dave" wrote in message

There are 2 security updates regarding an MDAC security breach
problem at the windows update site.

Lil Dave.

What 2 items do they have listed there that you see..? ..with W98x right?

Rick Chauvin wrote:
"Lil' Dave" wrote in message

There are 2 security updates regarding an MDAC security breach
problem at the windows update site.

Lil Dave.

What 2 items do they have listed there that you see..? ..with W98x
right?

Hi, Rick. Pretty sure Lil Dave is talking about the page that Patti
posted a link to. It shows MDAC 2.8 and then an update to MDAC 2.5
thru 2.8 just under the MDAC 2.8 link. It's not at Windows Update, the
patch shows 12-15-03 dates for the most part, so if it was going to
show up in the 98 Catalog it would have been there by now - it isn't,
so I make a new folder for update 832483 and archive it myself.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832483

I'm thinking Lil Dave just wanted to let everyone know that 2.8 MDAC is
NOT secure by itself. All MDAC versions need to run this patch.
Buffer overrun exploit issue - again....

This patch isn't on the Security Update CD either, just missed
inclusion by a few months I'm guessing. MDAC 2.8 itself IS on the CD,
but the patch for MDAC is NOT.

"Lee" wrote in message
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[...]
Hi, Rick. Pretty sure Lil Dave is talking about the page that Patti
posted a link to. It shows MDAC 2.8 and then an update to MDAC 2.5
thru 2.8 just under the MDAC 2.8 link. It's not at Windows Update,
the patch shows 12-15-03 dates for the most part, so if it was going
to show up in the 98 Catalog it would have been there by now - it
isn't, so I make a new folder for update 832483 and archive it myself.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832483

I'm thinking Lil Dave just wanted to let everyone know that 2.8 MDAC
is NOT secure by itself. All MDAC versions need to run this patch.
Buffer overrun exploit issue - again....

This patch isn't on the Security Update CD either, just missed
inclusion by a few months I'm guessing. MDAC 2.8 itself IS on the CD,
but the patch for MDAC is NOT.

Hi Lee,

After posting that message I realized after reading what was available
compared to what was currently installed what I needed to do; although no
thanks to the mdac checker since for the past year that was always showing
errors and I could never tell what I had installed - but I just left it...
Anyway today finally seeing what was available I just installed the latest
v2.8 and then applied 832483 too and all went fine ..and now even the mdac
checker works once again ...so all is well.

thanks for the reply,
Rick