Problem Installing Expression Web on Windows Vista with Office 2007?

WE 2 oem disk will not install on Vista 64 system

Martha A Graham — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:53:36 GMT

I cannot install WE2 in a fresh Vista 64 system. The disk just stalls. I do not have Office 2007.

I used on my old XP Pro system and it worked fine.

Any help with this problem would be most appreciated as I paid for the software - retail.

Martha

re: Problem Installing Expression Web on Windows XP

Ajoy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:32:30 GMT

The installation program can't find the required set up controller file. Please where can I find a clean file

re: Problem Installing Expression Web on Windows Vista with Office 2007?

Mike — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:53:41 GMT

Well just to throw a cat among the pigeons I have a another scenario.

Same problem different solution.

I tried 3 times to install Ex Web 2.

Each time it showed a successful install but when I tried to start the software it tried to configure and told me it could not find an msi file.

I followed all the advice I could find with no joy. I did not have save to pdf installed on my system.

So on a wing and a prayer I dug deeper in to the "warez / hacker" sites out there and was surprised at what I found.

To cut it short.

The reason you can not install expression is simple.

Reason 1. Office is installed on multiple systems using the same product key. Expression Web does not recognise corporate keys and so it fails validation.

Reason 2. You are trying to install a RC (release candidate) that has expired. (this is common for downloads from P2P sites.

Reason 3. You have previously installed Expression Studio Trial and even after removal Ex Web recognises this and will fail.

Reason 4. Your Windows and / or Office / Expression software is pirated or has been pirated and somebody else has installed and registered it before you did.

My solution: Even though I have legitimate software with receipt and proof of purchase somebody out there has obtained a key that is the same as my real one and activated and registered Expression Web before I installed.

All I got from MS was sorry you will have to purchase a ney product key.

So I am going back to Dreamweaver.

re: Problem Installing Expression Web on Windows Vista with Office 2007?

some one — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:47:16 GMT

Also begs the question that if someone builds an applicaiton using the Office tools will that application eventually run into the same problems. Are we going to see other third party applications using Office Tools not install or attempt to re-install office every time you run the application. Might be a good idea to set the "copy to local" for Office Assemblies when building .net application with Office Tools.

re: Problem Installing Expression Web on Windows Vista with Office 2007?

some one — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:40:16 GMT

Ya, but MS will tell us that we are using BETA software or something.

I have the same issue.

The funny thing is installing programs is not a BETA concpet nor should the install program be BETA the accual software is. Is the whole concept of installing software still under BETA and as the previous poster mentions that is why MS still needs all this feedback. They have yet to get it correct?

I think in addition to that it is the install program trying to install shared binary components. Which may be installed by another application.

The problem is MS is still sharing binary code between products. Instead like VS2008 web designer and Expression Web share the code not the binary. Crearte two seperate DLLs for the two seperate products.

Why would my binary install of Office cause problems for Expression Web. And/Or visa versa.

I would just ask MS to stop this practice. I had a problem installing SQL 2005 because of the same issue. Soming with OWC 11 and web components. Then compound that with MS not wanting to help becuase then it exposes weekness in share binary code.

Do a google search on this:

sql 2005 owc11

re: Problem Installing Expression Web on Windows Vista with Office 2007?

someone — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:26:30 GMT

Having all of those user feedback features built into the installers helping MS find these problems before the get out into the wild?

re: Problem Installing Expression Web on Windows Vista with Office 2007?

Stags — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:35:13 GMT

I had the same problem. I switched my default browser to IE instead of Firefox and tried again. It worked just right.

Problem Installing Expression Web on Windows Vista with Office 2007?

Boris — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:14:14 GMT

i have the WinVista Home Basic, and i've tried to install the expression web, i can run setup wizard, but it stops on the step number 2, and an error ocurred window comes up; what can i do?

PS:i do have all the frameworks.

My email is b.alzamora@gmail.com,thnx

re: Problem Installing Expression Web on Windows Vista with Office 2007?

Bruce — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:48:15 GMT

I inserted the disc and clicked on "Open folder to view files" then selected "Web Folder" and then setup.exe. Once I had entered the key from the package it worked but it did take a long time and I thought many times that the computer had frozen, however in the end it did load.

re: Problem Installing Expression Web on Windows Vista with Office 2007?

rakesh — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:38:54 GMT

i have office 2007 enterprise editon installed and while trying to install web expression.. the installaion is successful but when i start the app it says "the application is not configured properly try to reinstall" i m sick of it and need some help ,, also i dont have save as pdf addon for ms office 2007 installed