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Everytime I try to open office 2007, it keeps re-installing the software and takes a good while before it opens.
This happens for all programs in the suite; excel, word...etc. I am using Vista, can anyone please help?
Thanks.
Processes in Microsoft 365 for setting up Office apps, redeeming product keys, and activating licenses.
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Download, install and run the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/290301
Carey Frisch
In my case (Vista & Office 2007) I had tried several things: de- and re-install, new user profiles with admin rights, deleting normald.dot etc. From the Windows application event log it seemed that a test version of Outlook 2007 left over some registry entries which disturbed at each start of an Office application but I could not remove them myself. In the end what helped was an uninstallation of Office, then a CCleaner run (default settings and clean-up of registry), then a re-installation of Office. This did the job.
Marc-
Is this CCleaner program different then Microsoft's Office Cleanup Utility? Does it run more than MSIZAP? I'm convinced that my system has old office 2003 msi package pieces that are not related to an office msi package so msizap will find them, but they are enough to fire off the re-install. Do you know which entries need to be cleaned?
I have the same problem and so do many others from the forums I've seen. Can't understand why Microsoft don't produce a diagnostic tool to solve this one as even my office's IT support couldn't fix it.
In my case (Vista & Office 2007) I had tried several things: de- and re-install, new user profiles with admin rights, deleting normald.dot etc. From the Windows application event log it seemed that a test version of Outlook 2007 left over some registry entries which disturbed at each start of an Office application but I could not remove them myself. In the end what helped was an uninstallation of Office, then a CCleaner run (default settings and clean-up of registry), then a re-installation of Office. This did the job.
Wow, I certinally though someone would have found and fixed this problem by now. I've been putting up with it for 6 months now. The problem somehow is connected to the hidden "run as Administrator" functionality. I found that even having administrator level authority is not the same as a true administrator login. My adobe flash is also broken, along with sycronization to windows mobile calendar and contacts. There is also a process that is contained in Visual Studio 2005, in one of my C++ projects that requires an office dependancy that fires off the reinstall.
Somewhere I read that if you uninstall office 2007 and 2003, do the MSI cleanup tool, install office while logged in as "Administrator", you could fix the problem. NOT... Any help would save this laptop from certin death.
PS I am running Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 & Microsoft Office Utimate 2007 SP2.