Thread: Install Office 2000 with windows 8. Error 1919
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Old 01-31-2014, 04:08 AM
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Sure it will 'resolve' the "configuring ODBC data source" errors, but that's not the point. Office 2000's incompatibility with Windows 8 involves a lot more than just a couple of registry entries. All you achieve by adding those is masking the problem at one point and shifting it somewhere else.
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