Office 2003 portable install#

Take a full image backup, so you can return to this point if what weвЂ™re about to try fails.

Office 2003 portable install#

So, one straw I might grasp at is a clean install of Office 2003. In fact, I was able to successfully install Office 2003 on a fully up-to-date Windows 10. Generally, IвЂ™d expect the failure to happen immediately when you first encountered Windows 10. It concerns me that Office 2003 worked in Win10 until after an update to Windows 10. ThatвЂ™s what I worry about.ДЄnd, unfortunately, getting that one update will likely require installing all the updates youвЂ™ve been avoiding up to that point.

Then youвЂ™ll be stuck.ДЄs a matter of practicality, what you allude to is probably correct: most Windows 10 updates arenвЂ™t pragmatically critical, and you can easily wait them out - until thereвЂ™s one thatвЂ™s truly important. This kind of thing has happened in the past, and itвЂ™ll happen again in the future, IвЂ™m convinced. ItвЂ™ll probably be some kind of security issue that is rampant in the wild, and for which your machine will be vulnerable until you take an update. The scenario that comes to mind is an issue thatвЂ™s discovered for which you really, really, want the fix. Not just one of those вЂњit would be niceвЂќ kind of needs (though youвЂ™ll have those as well, I suspect), but more of an вЂњoh man, I really need thisвЂќ need. The problem with avoiding Windows 10 updates is that someday youвЂ™ll need one. IвЂ™ll address the pragmatic reality of avoiding updates, and IвЂ™ll also review what I see as your alternatives with respect to Windows 10 and Office 2003. I know you like it, I get that, but Office 2003 + Windows 10 is a match made вЂ¦ well, somewhere other than heaven. Honestly, it doesnвЂ™t surprise me that Windows 10 might not be compatible with 14-year-old software.