Thank you very much for this suggestion!

I can't use the perpetual Office versions because one of my machines is XP.

Thanks Jim, for ALL your help.

I'm headed out for the day. I'll take a closer look at your post and all its implications later on. :)

Thank you Jim.

I am already running VM Workstation 14. And I did, in fact, read about 14 being more USB friendly.

Using USB 2.0 ports:
I only have USB 3.0 ports in this laptop. I do remember...

Have fun Jim! I'm about to start cocktails here.:p

As we speak, here in US, New Hampshire (northeast coast), we're having our first snow fall. Oh boy ....here we go again.

I did install SP 3 using a .cab file to update my copy of XP.

How might I find the drivers from the .cab file?

I think I already tried usb 1.1, but can try again.

In your VM, are you having...

Thanks Cereberus.

As I said, the WD drive uses both 2.0 and 3.0 and it is compatible with Win XP. It's in the documentation. I can mount the drive on my desktop Win XP machine, I just can't get...

Hi Jim,

Yes, I've tried that and I just tried it again.

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With usb 3.0, the WD drive doesn't even show up in "Removable devices."

I read something about Win XP not able to "see" usb...

Hello,

I'm running Windows XP in Workstation Player on a Windows 10 laptop.

My USB CD/DVD drive is able to mount in the Player. So is a flash drive.

My Western Digital ssd (My Passport...

Never mind Kari. I got it. I ran the hypervisorlaunchtype off.

I think I'm in business! Thank you for your help!

Kari, thanks to your links I'm now using an elevated cmd.

I followed the instructions in the VMware knowledge base article. Upon reboot I disabled 2 items at the prompts. The first time I opened...

Okay Kari, I'll follow the tutorial.

I thought I was using an elevated cmd because I'm the administrator, but obviously I'm mistaken.

I'll be back :).

Thank you sir!

I keep getting this error in attempting to open VM Player v14.

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I was using Hyper-V for a few days and decided to try out VMware Player using Brink's tutorial. I tried using cmd...

What a fantastic tutorial this is! --so very well thought out and carefully written (including punctuation, which, in some threads, the lack thereof, leaves me completely uncomprehending.):)

I got...

Wow, thank you very much! :)

Just an update...

We had Office 2000 kicking around here, collecting dust, so I tried that. That successfully installed and opens without issue, so I'm back up and running. I can now open all my...

Thanks for your time. I appreciate it!

I've never set up a VM. Maybe I should school myself. Thank you.
Fafhrd That looks interesting, but I'm afraid it's a little over my head. Can I do what you did on my machine and build?

Thank you for your explanations and suggestions. I'm sorry to lose the programs but I'll look into your suggestions for replacement.

Thanks for the help!

Hello All,

I have been using the Word and Excel programs from Office 97 flawlessly until Microsoft's recent update.

I have already tried uninstalling then re-installing.

I've used the...