Setup Installs MSAPPS on Network Server Instead of Hard Disk

• Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c

SYMPTOMS

Setup may install the Word for Windows shared applications (namely Microsoft WordArt, Microsoft Equation Editor, Microsoft Graph, and the text and graphics converters, collectively known as MSAPPS) on a network server instead of your local hard drive.

Note: The default location of the shared applications is the <WINDOWS>\MSAPPS subdirectory.

CAUSE

Prior to installing Word, if you performed a workstation installation of an application (such as Microsoft Publisher or Microsoft Excel) that placed shared applications on a network server or shared drive, your WIN.INI and REG.DAT files point to the network location of those shared applications. By design, when you install Word, Setup searches for an existing shared applications location and installs its shared applications in that location. This decision is based on the (usually valid) assumption that you want to keep all your shared applications together in the same location.

WORKAROUND

If you want Word Setup to place your shared applications in a different location, do one of the following:

1. Use the Setup program from the other application to uninstall the shared applications from their network server location. Then run Word Setup to install these applications locally.

   -or-

2. Remove all the references to those applications from your WIN.INI and REG.DAT files before you run Setup.

   Use Registration Information Editor (REGEDIT.EXE) to modify your REG.DAT file; use System Configuration Editor (SYSEDIT.EXE) or any text editor to modify your WIN.INI file. To start REGEDIT.EXE or SYSEDIT.EXE, use the Run command on the File menu in Windows Program Manager.

REFERENCES

"Microsoft Word User's Guide," version 6.0, pages 767-775

"Microsoft Word Quick Results," version 6.0, pages 8-11