Article ID: 298041
Article Last Modified on 12/4/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Office XP Professional Edition
- Microsoft Office XP Small Business Edition
- Microsoft Office XP Standard Edition
- Microsoft Office XP Standard Edition for Students and Teachers
- Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition
- Microsoft Access 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q298041
SUMMARY
This step-by-step article describes how to install Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 with Microsoft Office XP on a Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional-based computer.
When you install Office XP, by default Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 (version 5.00.2919.6307) is not installed, even though it is included on the Office CD-ROM. If you want to, you can include Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 (version 5.50.4134.600) with the installation of Office XP. This article describes the steps that you must perform in order to install Internet Explorer 5.5 with Office XP on a computer that is running Windows 2000 Professional.
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How to Install Internet Explorer 5.5 with Office XP
To install Internet Explorer 5.5 with Office XP on Windows 2000, follow these steps:
- Create an administrative installation point for Office XP. For more information about how to do this, see the following Microsoft Web site:
- Either create a local install point for the Microsoft Internet Explorer files, or download the files from the Microsoft Web site.
For additional information about a download-only installation of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:257249 Download-Only Setup of Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 2000
If you choose to install Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 from a local install point, you can use Microsoft Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) 5.5. For more information about how to deploy Internet Explorer 5.5 by using IEAK, see the following Microsoft Web site:
- Copy the folder that contains the Internet Explorer 5.5 installation files to the \Files\OSP\1033 folder of the Office administrative installation.
- Install the Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit Tools. The Office XP Resource Kit tools are available for download from the following Microsoft Web site:
- Click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Office Tools, point to Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit Tools, and then click Setup INI Customization Wizard.
- On the Specify an administrative installation point page, type the path to the Office XP administrative installation. Click Next.
- On the Specify an INI file to customize page, click Files\Setup\Setup.ini, and then click Next.
NOTE: This is the Setup.ini file that the wizard will customize. - On the Specify logging and display settings to use during Setup page, select the options that you want, and then click Next.
- On the Select MSI and EXE files to include in your INI file page, click Browse.
- Locate and then click Ie5setup.exe in the folder that you created for the Internet Explorer installation files that is now located in your Office administrative installation folder. Click Open.
- Click Next.
- On the Specify options for each package in your INI file page, select the entry for Ie5setup.exe.
- On the Command line options page, type the following command-line parameters for the Internet Explorer installation:
/Q:A /C:"ie5wzd /S:""#e"" /Q:A /R:N"
- Click Next.
- On the View the summary of your INI file page, view the proposed changes to the Setup.ini file, and then click Save As.
- In the Save As dialog box, specify a name other than Setup.ini for your customized Setup.ini file. Click Save.
- Click Finish on the last page of the wizard.
- Install Office XP with the customized Setup.ini file by using a command line similar to the following:
where
\\Server\Share\OfficeXP\Setup.exe /Settings \\Server\Share\OfficeXP\Files\Setup\
custom.iniCustomis the name of your customized Setup.ini file.
REFERENCES
For additional information about versions of Internet Explorer, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
164539 How to Determine Which Version of Internet Explorer Is Installed
For additional information about installing Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 2000, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
256340 Information About Internet Explorer 5.5 Setup on a Windows 2000-Based Computer
For additional information how to install Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 with Microsoft Office XP on Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
290555 OFFXP: How to Install Internet Explorer 5.5 with Office XP
For additional information about Setup command-line options for Office XP, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
283686 OFFXP: Setup Command-Line Switches
For additional information about how to deploy Office, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
304953 OFFXP: How to Deploy Office over a Network
For more information about how to deploy Office XP or to obtain the Custom Installation Wizard, see the Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit available at the following Microsoft Web site:
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