Microsoft Office 2003 not installing on Windows Vista

Hi. I have a problem with my new laptop and I do not have much knowledge about the new Windows Vista and computers. My problem is I cannot install Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 on my laptop which has Windows Vista. The CD works fine as well as the CD drive reader in my laptop, but I get a popup that says,"Error executing file/The requested operation requires elevation." I am not sure what this means. Please explain this to me and if there is a solution, can you please tell me the step by step process that is clear. Thank you very much in advance.

 

You have to have administrator privileges to install office 2003. did you change ur user account properties?.

 

turn off the UAC (user access control in user accounts) in control panal
try installing office if succesful turn user accounts back on
see if this helps
jim

 

You should be able to navigate to the CD in Windows explorer and right click on the setup.exe icon, then click "Run as Administrator."

 

Maybe Office 2003 is not compatible with Vista since it was made in 2002

 

office 2003 works fine in Vista--I have it on 2 machines

 

I am the administrator since I only have one account and I am always on to change the password. lol

 

So many people dont understand Vista, UAC and what its designed to do.

If you have UAC on (good thing) even though you are running as administrator you are running in limited administrator mode. Any time something (office 2003 install in this case) tries to modify the system state (registry most likely) then the install can fail, or it will prompt you to continue.

This behavior (not the failing part) is the same with OS X and Linux....except that they always require a password instead of an OK. Vista can be changed to use password via a GPO for admin accounts.....and if you are running as a standard/limited user on Vista it does require a password period.

Like posted above right click on the setup.exe and left click on "run as administrator".

I have Office 2003 running on hundreds of Vista PC's at work. It works fine.