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Installing Office Pro 2003 on Windows 10 System

I am trying to install MS Office Pro 2003 on a new Windows 10 laptop.  I have the cd's and product key.  However, I do not have a CD drive on the laptop and have read on various articles to copy the Office 2003 CD to a thumb drive, insert the thumb drive, go to Explore, and on setup.exe right mouse and Run As Administrator.  I have tried this multiple times with different thumb drives.  Also tried the setup.exe direction from the thumb drive or copy/pasted onto C: or C:/Program Files and none of those work.  I keep getting the error message of "Microsoft office setup cannot continue because the installation source has been corrupted"

I have even tried this with Visio Pro 2003 and the same get the same error message.  Any ideas other than find an external CDROM to plug in or upgrade to a new version of Office?

I've installed this on my Windows 10 desktop that had a CD rom and it worked fine.

Thanks for the help!

Office 2003 went out of support years ago and is not fully compatible with win10

So even if you install there will be no security updates or fixes, and as such your system will be wide open to exploits

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Purchase an external CD Drive, they are cheap enough and may come in handy sometime in the future.
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Purchase an external CD Drive, they are cheap enough and may come in handy sometime in the future.

My Microsoft Word is not working. I have put my email but it always ask to put 25 characters product key though we are not provided key with prime minister laptop. kindly resolve my issue

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You should have received instruction in an email see HERE 

A.         Prime Minister's Laptops scheme is for all the "Students" only, who are enrolled at any of the public sector higher education institutes of Pakistan & AJK irrespective of their employment condition.

Q 17.   I have received a laptop how I will activate windows 10 and Microsoft office on my laptop?

A.         An email has already been sent to you on your provided email ID that contain all the information including user ID, password and link to activate windows10 and Microsoft office 365 on your system.

  

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Last updated February 19, 2025 Views 5,619 Applies to: