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Microsoft Office 4.0

SystemSystem
edited February 2022 in Product Comments
imageMicrosoft Office 4.0

Microsoft Office is a bundle of Microsoft's productivity application. This includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and later Mail, Office Manager, and Outlook. The "1.x" versions of Microsoft Office were simply a marketing bundle of the standalone products sold together with no other packaging changes. Even though these were distinct applications, rather than one single monolithic program, they shared a similar user interface, integrated well together and shared the ability to embed documents from one application in the documents of another.

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  • Maks7594Maks7594
    when downloading the 1.44mb floppy version, Disk 6 is mispelled as "diks6.img"
  • SomeGuySomeGuy
    Ok, fixed. Thanks for pointing that out.
  • CodeAsm2CodeAsm2
    edited December 2024
    The "CD" version seems to have been preregistered to "M. Kinnerke Culver". this seems to be common. if one where to have their own registration, a change or removal of setup.ini would probably do it. I cannot find a crack or generator tool.

    using the 3.5 diskette edition, it asked me for name and company, right after using disk 1, it wrote stuff to setup.ini. thus leading me to believe someone trown these after use on a CD image. the CD image might take away a step to fill in details, but is less genuine. Also modifying the iso made the installer not able to find all files, maybe not everything is on the CD image either (hence its smaller size). would not recommend the CD image unless someone remakes it based on the diskettes without altering the setup.ini this time.
  • 02k-guy02k-guy
    "The "CD" version seems to have been preregistered to "M. Kinnerke Culver"."

    That's too funny. Quick check of all so-called ISOs on vetusware, old-dos.ru, Internet archive - have the same 2 modified files: SETUP.INI, SETUP.STF and date modded of 11/13/2003.

    Also, ISO says mastered using "CDIMAGE 2.47 (10/12/2000 TM)" - which of course, is some 7 years after the release.

    The thought of an ISO posted with a modded SETUP.INI - just cracks me up.

    Anywho, couple of thoughts - use the SETUP.INI from version 4.2, or one of the floppy sets, or the one I've attached from the French floppy set.

    After all, it's only job IS to recorded registered user info.
  • SomeGuySomeGuy
    Thanks for pointing that out. I did have a note in the download description that it looked modified. I've added a request for a redump.
  • 02k-guy02k-guy
    edited December 2024
    As a kludge: I downloaded and compared SETUP.INI from this ISO, to the 1.2 and 1.44 floppy sets from WinWorld, and to the French floppy set from win3x.org AND to a version of 4.3 CD from archive.org.

    Binary comparing all of them - except this 4.0 ISO from Winworld, they are identical - but for the last 19 to 21 bytes - which contains the Product Code. The SETUP.INI of the WinWorld 4.0 ISO is a completely odd duck(no surprise).

    It just seems reasonable to me, that using a tool like UltraISO to first delete, then replace SETUP.INI in the ISO using one from the other distros - making no other changes - should give a working file set.

    I do not recollect the exact command line, but one ought to be able to extract all files/dirs from the CD, and then use the DOS SUBST command to allow the installer to find all files, without mounting, or burning a physical CD.


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