OFF2000: Error Installing Office Although You Have Administrative Rights

• Microsoft Office 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to install Microsoft Office 2000, one of the following error messages appears, although you are a member of a group that has Administrator rights:

Installing this product requires Administrative privileges on systems running this version of Windows

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Microsoft Office 2000 Setup needs to replace some Windows components. This requires Administrative rights. Please log in as an administrator to complete Microsoft Office 2000 Setup.

CAUSE

This problem may occur when the following conditions are true:

• You are running Setup on one of the following platforms:
  
  
  • Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
  • Microsoft Windows 2000

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• You are a member of a large number of groups.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: OFF2000 NT4 WINNT4 WIN2000 WIN2K USER ADMIN

Keywords : kbdta
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug