Error 1913 Installing MS Office Pro on Windows Vista

[Borgnine]

I am the owner and the only Admin of this Vista ultimate based computer but when I try to install Office 2003 pro, it stucks with an error message saying :

error 1913: setup cannot update fileC:\WINDOWS\system32\mapisvc.inf
Verify that the file exists in ou system and that you have sufficient permission to update it.

Talking about permission, I manually went to that location and took ownership of that particular file but that wasn’t helpful. I also changed the ownership of entire System32 folder but that too dint worked.

What else can I do to get rid of this error ? Somebody please help.

[Fawiza]

It is a know error for me, faced it couple of months ago while installing Office 2007 on Windows XP. Well I was able to solve it by adding some extra lines in the inf file. You can check this Microsoft Knowledge base article for more help: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318705

[burto]

I am having the same problem. What are the extra lines you added to the inf file?

[prash_mate]

Well dude, it depends and written in the above provided KB article. If you checked it and wont got to figure out, check these articles:
Cannot Installing office 2007 error 1933
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