OFF2000: How to Make the Browse Button Unavailable When the Installer Can't Find the Source Files (234036)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office 2000 Premium
  • Microsoft Office 2000 Professoinal
  • Microsoft Office 2000 Standard
  • Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business
  • Microsoft Office 2000 Developer
  • Microsoft Access 2000
  • Microsoft Excel 2000
  • Microsoft FrontPage 2000
  • Microsoft Outlook 2000
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
  • Microsoft Word 2000
This article was previously published under Q234036

SUMMARY

If the Windows Installer needs to copy information from your Office source location, and that source is not available, a dialog box with the following text appears:
The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.

Click OK to try again, or enter an alternative path in the box below.
In this dialog box, there is a Browse button that allows you to browse your network for another location that contains Office source files.

To make the Browse button unavailable, apply the Disable browse dialog box for new source system policy that is available in the Office 2000 Policy template, Instlr1.adm. For more information about the Office System Policy templates, see the Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit at the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork

MORE INFORMATION

If you apply the Disable browse dialog box for new source system policy, you also cannot manually enter a path in the Use feature from list. However, you can select the Office 2000 Product item in the Use feature from list (where Office 2000 Product is the name of the specific Office program being used). If you select the Office 2000 Product item and your Office 2000 Product CD is in the CD-ROM drive, the Windows Installer can locate the information it needs on the CD when you click OK.

When you apply the Disable browse dialog box for new source system policy, the DisableBrowse DWORD value under the following registry subkey is set to 1:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:10/13/2006
Keywords:kbhowto KB234036
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