I have an HP Pavillion XP Home PC. I think the OS is missing something that my Dell OS had. Everytime I try to install either MS Office 2000 Small Business or standalone Word 2000, I get seven (7) back-to-back "Error 1919. Error configuring ODBC datasource: XXXXX, ODBC error 6: Component not found in the registry. Verify that the file XXXXX exists and that you can access it." messages. where XXXXX is replaced by (below) for each of the 7 error messages... MS Access Database dBASE FILES Excel Files Visual FoxPro Database Visual FoxPro Tables dBase Files - Word FoxPro Files This set of Microsoft Office CDs that I purchased (extra) when I bought a Dell PC some years ago. Is the XP Home in HP's (lousy) OS missing things? (well, I know its missing things, but missing something that should be there to use Office 2000)? Can I put something in the registry so that Word 2000 will function correctly in HP's version of XP Home? I can't remember if I had this problem when I put a "pure" copy of MS XP Home in this machine. I couldn't use that because I couldn't find (and neither could Windows or HP) drivers for the "SM Bus Controller" (I don't even know what that is) and the sound device that HP had built into the motherboard). HP partitions the disk as HP wants instead of how the user wants. To get a separate partition on C (so I wouldn't have to clone all my many documents along with the operating system and programs) and to recover the disk space HP's "Recovery Partition E" uses up, I had to Install HP XP, delete a bunch of garbage, including Norton Anti-Virus 2002, Wild Tangent (HP admitted that they "kept costs down" by selling space on my disk to advertisers), etc., and then clone the HP partition C (no documents there yet). Then I installed MS XP to partition my drive the way I wanted it, and then restored the HP XP clone to the (now smaller) C partition. Then I moved "My Documents" to the D partition on the primary disk. Now I'm wondering if I might have removed something that would have allowed Word to install correctly. MS Works was on HP's recovery and I removed it - could that be the problem? Oh geeze, I hate to start this all over again. My next machine will definitely NOT be HP. Oddly, just yesterday, I received notification about a class-action lawsuit against HP for the "Recovery Partition" thing. I'm not buying another machine that has a "pre-partitioned, pre-loaded" OS with no way to re-install everything the way I want it, or to install a different operating system. Do any PC makers still include separate CD's for the OS and software that you are supposedly buying as part of the deal? I will appreciate any help you guys can offer. Thanks, AnnaSummers The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering our special coffee mugs and mouse pads with the PCBUILD logo... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml