Will office 2003 work on windows 8

Hi There are some discrepancies in the information about Office Tuesday, January 15, AM. Excel is not compatible with Windows 8.

You should upgrade to a more recent version of Office. Please see: Compatibility mode Carey Frisch. OP, I suggest you uninstall and reinstall as first point of call. Edited by hotcatz Monday, January 14, PM. It seems to be a lot zippier without all those bad things I saw he removed. I also have the free Avast virus program that also warns me of potential threats. To my above comment, understand the second, and I mean that quite literally, the second you start to use Windows after defragging, fragmentation begins all over again.

Any time a file is updated or changed, its size changes too. So any advantage a 3rd party application has is quickly negated. This was a problem long ago and far away when 1 drives were much smaller, 2 drives had very small buffers, 3 drives had slower access and read times, 4 disk space was much more expensive per byte, and 5 systems had small amounts of RAM.

If you have lots of free disk space and with today's disk prices, there's little excuse not to , the system will be able to keep file most of the file segments together. If you are critically low on disk space, it makes little sense to download and install a 3rd party program that 1 takes up more of that precious space for 2 just a temporary amount of time.

More importantly, when it comes to Windows 7 and even more so with Windows 8, using any defragger other than Windows own WILL degrade your computer's performance! This is because Windows 7, and particularly Windows 8 uses Windows own defragger now called by the function, "Optimize Drives " in conjunction with Windows "prefetch" features to optimize performance based on YOUR computer usage.

For example, if you regularly call up Word, Windows will use Optimize Disks to defrag and move applicable Word files to where they can be loaded more quickly. So it really makes no sense today to use a 3rd party defragging tool. This will not change; Microsoft will not fix it.

What if you need support? If you need help with something you can't call Microsoft. They no longer support Outlook But chances are, you never called Microsoft when they did support it and got the help you needed from this website or from other sites or forums.

You can continue to get help from those sources. Last updated on May 8, Do not enable compatibility mode — this is not needed and will cause problems with any version of Outlook.

Outlook works well on Vista but there are a few problems with it on Windows 7 see links below. Both of these versions are officially supported on Vista and Windows 7, so if any issues arise Microsoft will offer public hotfixes or include the fix in future Service Packs. Outlook , , 98, and 97 are not supported on Vista or Windows 7 or any later versions.

If you choose to install any of these applications you should expect errors and annoyances. The better known problems are listed below but there may be others I'm not aware of. These versions of Outlook are all long out of support and Microsoft will not release patches to fix any problems with these versions.

Upgrading is highly recommended, or use the new Vista calendar and mail applications if you are unwilling or unable to upgrade. It runs, but email account passwords are not saved. After you enter the password during the first email check, Outlook will remember it until you close down Outlook.

This is because Outlook used the protected storage interfaces to store passwords and these are no longer supported in Vista. One possible solution is to run Outlook as an administrator.