Microsoft Office 2003 fails

None of the programs Office opens. Everyone tells me that the program "has encountered a problem and must close. I can open existing Word and Excel files, but cannot create new ones.

How to re-install this program on a 8 year old XP/SP3 system? It came pre-installed from Dell. I have the original CD, but it seems to be physically impaired and not does not complete a repair or re - install. I have the Dell product key (Microsoft Office SBE 2003 with BCM).

Dell offers this program to download? Can I download from Microsoft and use the activation code provided by Dell?

Thank you Sujatha K.

As I said, the reinstallation CD Dell provided does not work. (Probably because of his age). I'm disappointed Dell can offer no option other than to contact Microsoft, software that I bought from Dell.

That said, I managed to solve the problem on my own.

It seems that XP Data Execution Prevention (DEP) was responsible for my office problem. In my research, I noticed that DEP was grayed out in system properties > Advanced tab > Performance > settings > Data Execution Prevention tab.

I have re - turn on DEP by editing my boot.ini. Knit then all Office programs.

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