problem starting winword 97SR2

James Juran jamesjuran at alumni.psu.edu
Mon May 21 16:46:33 CDT 2001


Heiko Nardmann wrote:
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> On Monday 21 May 2001 13:05, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:30:11AM +0200, Heiko Nardmann wrote:
> > > When starting WinWord I get a dialog saying that either I have not enough
> > > work space or memory space. The program exits then.
> > >
> > > So after playing with the debug options I found out that this happens
> > > after a key named "Office.SharedMemory.1" is accessed inside the
> > > registry. Can someone tell me what to do to make word no longer complain?
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Classes\\Office.SharedMemory.1]
> > "CLSID" = "{000c0114-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}"
> > "IID" = "{000c0507-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}"
> >
> > But don't think that your Wine config is broken if you don't have registry
> > settings from an already installed Office ?
> 
> Hmm ... I did not install Office on my machine, just copied the following
> files from my Windows NT machine into a separate directory:
> 
> - - winword.exe
> - - mso97.dll
> - - wwintl32.dll
> 
> To be honest: I even have not installed Windows at all on this machine
> although I have a license for it.
> 
> The files stated above are enough to resolve the linker dependencies.

You will need to run the installation program or manually copy all the
registry entries from an existing installation.  The Microsoft Office
applications put tons of stuff in the registry which is necessary for
them to run.

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James Juran
jamesjuran at alumni.psu.edu




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