Office 2007 on Windows 2000
25-02-2008, 18:46
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Office 2007 on Windows 2000
Hello,
Anybody tried running Office 2007 on Windows 2000?
I know it's not supported by Microsoft but has anybody tried it?
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25-02-2008, 21:23
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
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Originally Posted by LSainsbury
Hello,
Anybody tried running Office 2007 on Windows 2000?
I know it's not supported by Microsoft but has anybody tried it?
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Why on earth would you want to?
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26-02-2008, 00:50
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
Hi
Tried and failed
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26-02-2008, 10:04
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
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Why on earth would you want to?
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Not me - a customer!
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Hi
Tried and failed
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For what reason - if you can remember? Thanks.
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26-02-2008, 14:41
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
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Not me - a customer!
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For what reason - if you can remember? Thanks.
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Would more than likely kill the 2000 machine.
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26-02-2008, 15:01
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
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Would more than likely kill the 2000 machine.
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In what way? I know it's resource intensive, but what if the Windows 2000 PC had a good CPU and RAM spec?
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26-02-2008, 15:05
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
Well.. from using it on XP it just causes a consant lock up - and my machine isnt exactly poor - Quad Core CPU etc.
Personally Id stick with Outlook 2003 - its probably better than 2007 anywho!
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26-02-2008, 15:18
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
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Well.. from using it on XP it just causes a consant lock up - and my machine isnt exactly poor - Quad Core CPU etc.
Personally Id stick with Outlook 2003 - its probably better than 2007 anywho!
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Runs fine on XP here and it's a medium spec PC, and I don't really want to get into a discussion regarding what version is better as that was'nt my question - but anyway - back to the question...
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26-02-2008, 15:26
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
So in answer to the question, yes Ive tried it on 2000 and it killed it - was a p4 - 1gb ram - just killed the machine!
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26-02-2008, 15:38
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
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So in answer to the question, yes Ive tried it on 2000 and it killed it - was a p4 - 1gb ram - just killed the machine!
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OK - please define "killed" - it's not really a technical term!
Do you mean it just grabbed all the resources it could and ran very slowly...or it didn't run at all? Did you do any investigation as to what processes were being maxed out at the time?
Sorry - but I'm looking for a bit more of a technical explanation.
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26-02-2008, 15:41
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
Hmm
Anywho as you wish.
Outlook caused 80 % CPU usage. It caused constant lock up and freeze - it caused general slowness. So I removed it and the machine went back to normal, running relativly well and just ticked over.
Does this help?
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26-02-2008, 15:47
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
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Originally Posted by LSainsbury
OK - please define "killed" - it's not really a technical term!
Do you mean it just grabbed all the resources it could and ran very slowly...or it didn't run at all? Did you do any investigation as to what processes were being maxed out at the time?
Sorry - but I'm looking for a bit more of a technical explanation.
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Why don't you install microsoft virtual machine 2007 - install win2k and try it for your yourself, you can get a better understanding of what's going on then 
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26-02-2008, 15:57
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
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Why don't you install microsoft virtual machine 2007 - install win2k and try it for your yourself, you can get a better understanding of what's going on then |
Beacuse I thought I'd ask here first to try and get a heads up of what happens when you run the suite.
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Originally Posted by webcrawler2050
Hmm
Anywho as you wish.
Outlook caused 80 % CPU usage. It caused constant lock up and freeze - it caused general slowness. So I removed it and the machine went back to normal, running relativly well and just ticked over.
Does this help?
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Sort of...looks like I will be testing it myself to see what processes were hit....
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26-02-2008, 15:59
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
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Beacuse I thought I'd ask here first to try and get a heads up of what happens when you run the suite. |
Yeah but you could have tried it for yourself in the time you've waited 
Me, I've got an install of win 95,98,ME,2k,XP and Vista ready with virtual pc to test out stuff for people.
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26-02-2008, 17:15
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Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
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Yeah but you could have tried it for yourself in the time you've waited
Me, I've got an install of win 95,98,ME,2k,XP and Vista ready with virtual pc to test out stuff for people. |
Not with the house move and working I couldn't have!
Yeah - I think I need to prep some images for this kinda thing....
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