Accessing MS Office from my new Windows installation

I have two O/S on my computer, only one office

[Receptional]

I bought a machine with windows XP home. I tried to install my XP Pro but as it was older than the computer, I had to set it up as a separate O/S on my D Drive. So far so good, but it won't let me open Office documents from the XP Pro boot, only the Home boot. Pain, since I don't have disks for this version of office as it came with the machine.

How do I configure my XP Pro O/S on the D drive to be able to open officfe documents using the office installation on the c drive designed for XP home O/S?

Stupid Computers... oh - wait - they ARE stupid. If only I could be clever...

Anyone able to help?

[The Contractor]

I take it you can access the C: drive from XP Pro? Does the XP Home install show up as in C: when in XP Pro?

If yes, you may be able run regedit on XPHome, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office click to highlight/select and right-click>>Export to a *.reg file saving it to your hard drive. Do the same for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office . Then login to XP pro and double-click the reg files you saved and merge them into the XP Pro registry and then restart. I'm not sure if this will work and the only harm it can do is you may have to run regedit and delete the keys you have merged within XP Pro.

[Receptional]

Thanks for the thoughts Contractor. Turns out the one on the C: Drive is only 90 days anyway, so the guys at the office have given me a spanking new installation.