XP Virtual Machine in Win 7 - strange happenings

Because Microsoft are incompetent scum?

Have you tried Primo PDF - it allows a password on open, and a separate password for protection that includes printing restrictions (No printing, high res or low res), various change restrictions & disabling copying to clipboard.

It's free too

Toby...

Useful...give yourself a pat on the back.

I assume that Office 2000 is patched to the hilt? All Service Packs applied?

JW

Don't use word 2000. Try M$ word viewer if you don't need to make changes. OO if you do. Or have a look at the free office 2010 essentials that should be released about now.

Really? It wasn't intended to be. In the same way that what is likely happening is that MS don't want you to be able to do what the OP wants - they want you to buy another copy of Office for the host machine. Although this is only a guess, based on years of experience of watching people empty their wallets into Bill Gates bank account.

Thanks, but there's no need.

In news:4c16008e$0$2538$ snipped-for-privacy@news.zen.co.uk, John Whitworth typed on Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:12:28 +0100:

Microsoft Office 2000 Update didn't work for me running under Windows 7. Although it does under Windows XP. So here is the manual update list for Office 2000 I have created.

Microsoft Word 2000 (9.0.2720) Microsoft Word 2000 (9.0.3821 SP-1) Microsoft Word 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3) Microsoft Word 2000 (9.0.8968 SP-3) after 13 more updates

REQUIRED UPDATES

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Update for Microsoft Excel 2000 (KB969683)

3683 KB / Download Time = 1 min at your connection speed A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel 2000 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Update for Microsoft Word 2000 (KB969600)

4002 KB / Download Time = 1 min at your connection speed A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word 2000 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves the vulnerability so that Microsoft Word 2000 documents are handled appropriately.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Update for Office 2000 (KB944425)

1383 KB / Download Time = < 1 min at your connection speed A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office 2000 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Update for Microsoft Office 2000 (KB947361)

2810 KB / Download Time = 1 min at your connection speed A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office 2000 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Update for Microsoft Outlook 2000 (KB946986)

2601 KB / Download Time = 1 min at your connection speed A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Outlook 2000 that could allow arbitrary code to run when you click on a maliciously modified hyperlink. This update resolves that vulnerability.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Update for Office 2000 (KB921606) (English version)

489 KB / Download Time = < 1 min at your connection speed A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office 2000 that could enable arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This security update resolves that vulnerability.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Update for Microsoft Office 2000 (KB921595) (English version)

524 KB / Download Time = < 1 min at your connection speed A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office 2000 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Update for Access Snapshot Viewer 2000 (KB955441) (English version)

87 KB / Download Time = < 1 min at your connection speed A security vulnerability exists in the Snapshot Viewer that could allow arbitrary code to run when you open a maliciously modified web page or document. This update resolves that vulnerability.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Update for Microsoft Office 2000 Web Components (KB931660)

1294 KB / Download Time = < 1 min at your connection speed A security vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Office Web Components 2000 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Update for Microsoft Office 2000 (KB957838) (English version)

144 KB / Download Time = < 1 min at your connection speed A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office 2000 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified document is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Update for Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 (KB957790)

1797 KB / Download Time = < 1 min at your connection speed A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Update for Outlook 2000 (KB905646) (English version)

3333 KB / Download Time = 1 min at your connection speed A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Outlook 2000 that could allow arbitrary code to run when opening a malicious document. This update addresses that vulnerability.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Update for PowerPoint 2000 (KB905555) (English version)

26 KB / Download Time = < 1 min at your connection speed

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In news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net, Huge typed on 14 Jun 2010 10:47:57 GMT:

Really? I bought MS Office 97 and MS Office 2000 and I stopped there. I had to upgrade from MSO 97 because it had too many bugs that MSO 2000 fixed. I felt no reason to get the later versions as MS Office 2000 works just fine for me.

I do regret buying two copies of Windows 7 that still sit up on the shelf unopened. As I was running two copies of Windows 7 Ultimate RC for about a year and I was unimpressed with it.

What do you do when OO doesn't render the document the same? Or screws up the doc so it doesn't look the same when you go back to Office? It happens.

MBQ

What business *wouldn't* want you to buy new products? But I'm afraid your argument really is flawed. In the vast majority of situations, Office 2000 is still a very good product, and there is no need to upgrade unless you want either the eye candy or extra functionality of the later versions. Extended support for Office 2000 was only discontinued last year.

I really do not think that is short-changing the customer, or incompetent, do you?

OK - smack your head into a concrete pillar a few times then. That might make you feel better.

I believe Roger raised this before - Office 2003 wasn't compatible with the Jaws driver. If Office 2003 wasn't, it's unlikely that OO would be.

Must admit, Windows 7 RC seemed to work flawlessly. It was only after release that I started to get a bit squiffy.

They are probably trying to create and write a temp file in the same folder as the opened file, and not succeeding. Normally the opening application should then state "read only mode" and open the file, but there might be subtle things afloat stopping it.

Try setting an audit policy in Windows 7 and then check out 7's event log.

Maybe host folders are accessed in WinXP as Win7's adminstrative file shares.

No, I just installed it on the virtual machine from an original CD. Is that likely to be significant?

Haven't a clue to be honest - but I'd certainly try at least getting SP1, 2 and 3 on there.

The virtual machine, as supplied, is also far from up to date. Worth applying the XP fixes too.

Not exactly. I'm pretty sure that I've used Jaws with Word 2003 (under XP) in the past. If you can get Jaws running under a given operating system, it seems then to work with all applications - it's just that it won't work with Win 7 - hence the reason for running it (and needing to run Word) on the Virtual XP machine.

I currently have a solution - of sorts - by copying files to be Jaws'd onto the virtual machine's 'local' drive, and copying the resulting PDF files back, but it's a bit messy, and I'd prefer to be able to access the original files directly.

That implies that the virtual machine has read access but not write access to files on the host machine. But other applications running on the virtual machine can write to the host quite happily - so I still don't understand why Word should be any different.

>Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a look.

No, that's not the issue. I've actually got Office 2007 on the host and Office 2000 on the virtual machine. The issue is that of trying to get Word 2000 on the virtual machine to be able to access *data* files (i.e. documents) stored on the host.