2 different OfficeXP on different HD partitions -possible?

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Dutch User - 20 Oct 2003 12:37 GMT

[groups.google.com and the MS support pages did not provide an anwer]

My employer setup the full Office XP-Pro English on my C partition
(WinXP Dutch system/laptop)
That works fine, but I miss the local features of the localised WordXP Dutch
(localised samples, spelling, interface, etc) in the full Office XP-Pro
English

Question:
Is it possible to install my (full version, boxed) localised WordXP Dutch
as a stanalone programme on de second (:D) partition of my HD
(contains no windows)of is there another way?
(buying Office XP Dutch-full is no option)

I know about the proofing CD and the MUI for corporate licences,
but that's not applicable here, I just want to prevent crashes and
problems with shared components.

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Mike Williams [MVP] - 20 Oct 2003 14:41 GMT

> Is it possible to install my (full version, boxed) localised WordXP
> Dutch as a stanalone programme on de second (:D) partition of my HD
> (contains no windows)of is there another way?

Separate partitions is the only way to avoid registry/naming conflicts with
two different boxed versions.

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Dutch User - 20 Oct 2003 16:34 GMT

> > Is it possible to install my (full version, boxed) localised WordXP
> > Dutch as a stanalone programme on de second (:D) partition of my HD
> > (contains no windows)of is there another way?
>
> Separate partitions is the only way to avoid registry/naming conflicts with
> two different boxed versions.

Thank you for your response.

One more question:
will that simply create a [second partition]:\Program Files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\Office10
folder making 2 incompatible (eg Chinese/Greek)
localised OfficeXP versions run without problems from the 1st/2nd partition?

The fact being that the seconds partition is only formatted, empty and
contains no Windows OS
made me wonder.

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Mike Williams [MVP] - 21 Oct 2003 00:44 GMT

> One more question:
> will that simply create a [second partition]:\Program Files\Common
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> contains no Windows OS
> made me wonder.

You'll have to have a separate Windows partition so that there are no
registry or nameespace collisions. Simply having different \Program Files
folder structures on each drive will not suffice to keep them unentangled.
Once you do have them set up on different partitions, you can customize each
to share items like custom dictionaries.

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Dutch User - 21 Oct 2003 15:17 GMT

> > One more question:
> > will that simply create a [second partition]:\Program Files\Common
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
> Once you do have them set up on different partitions, you can customize each
> to share items like custom dictionaries.

I do appreciate your voluntary support.

MS has a lot of information on the MUI (only for corporations) and the XP
proofing pack,
but I never found simple resources about setting up incompatible localised
OfficeXP versions
on different partitions.

After setting up both (US, Dutch) localised versions on seperate partions
C and D (controlled by Win Xp) everything seems to work fine.

Thank you.

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