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Office Starter 2010, compatibility with Windows 10?
Office Starter 2010 was an option available with OEM pre-installed Office 2010 supplied with a new Windows 7 PC. With a pre-loaded OEM copy of Office 2010 you had the choice, when starting Office for the first time, of purchasing Office 2010 from your OEM or installing the free Office 2010 Starter.
Introduction to Office Starter 2010 - Office SupportMicrosoft Office Starter 2010 is a simplified, ad-funded version of Microsoft Office 2010 that comes pre-loaded and ready to use on your computer. Office Starter includes the spreadsheet program Microsoft Excel Starter 2010 and the word processing program Microsoft Word Starter 2010.
From the launch of Windows 10 Microsoft have said that Office 2010 Starter is incompatible and will be removed....
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...5-77b681fe2884Is Microsoft Office Starter 2010 compatible with Windows 10?
Please be aware that Office Starter 2010 is not supported. You will be prompted to remove it before the upgrade starts.
...however, due to an oversight (or bug?) at launch the original version of Windows 10 (10240) did not prompt to unistall Office Starter 2010, either through the 'Get Windows 10' app that did the free upgrade, or when using the MCT install media. As a consequence I ended up with a working (and apparently compatible, until now) copy of Office Starter 2010.
The only proviso was that Office 2010 Starter had to have been installed before upgrading to W10, a condition that has been true since Windows 8.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...0-on-windows-8In order to use Microsoft Office Starter 2010 in Windows 8, you must first install and update it in Windows 7.
All versions of W10 install media from 1511 onwards will require you to uninstall Office 2010 Starter when upgrading from W7/W8, but they ignore it if you are upgrading from an install of W10 that had slipped through the 10240 loophole and retained a working copy of Office 2010 Starter (presumably because as it isn't supposed to be possible, it isn't tested for).
So, for many years I have had the use of Excel and Word 2010 Starter without issue. then the subtle and apparently unconnected problem began - disk corruption that required SFC/DISM repairs. This first appeared with one of the recent builds of 1809 and has continued into 1903.
Run SFC Command in Windows 10Bree said:
Well, the corruption returned (and returned again). The first thought was a dying disk, but restoring the image to a new HDD had the same problem (right down to the same file becoming corrupt every time). It had to be a software problem, restoring the image to a virtual machine would even corrupt the virtual disk after a few days use.
I went through uninstalling virtually all the OEM software that it had inherited from W7, to no avail. Finally I (reluctantly) uninstalled Office Starter 2010. That seems to have cured it.
It's a shame to say goodbye to 2010 as it was the most recent(ish) version of MS Office that I had. LibreOffice will have to suffice from now on. TBH I'm surprised I got away with using it for as long as I did, seeing as MS have always said it was incompatible.