OFFICE STUCK AT "We're getting things ready" (Office for Windows)

Anonymous
2015-12-22T06:24:08+00:00

I activated my Office 365 Home Subscription and clicked the install button on the page. It downloaded an .exe file and so I clicked it, then an orange box popped up saying "We're getting things ready" and it has been like this for 30 minutes. What do I do? Could this be linked to the fact that I bought the subscription key thing in the U.S. and activated it in the Philippines through telephone activation because it was region locked? (They sent me an email with a link where it just required me to sign in and then it went to the install page)

Using a brand new Surface Pro 4 256gb i5 model

Update: Got past the first orange popup by forcing it to quit and restarting my surface then I got an error and then proceeded to click the help link on the error message then it made me download something and run that thing then now I downloaded the install .exe file again and ran it. Now I'm at the bigger white "Installing Office" with "We'll be done in just a moment" popup with the loading bar thing. I'm stuck at 15%. How long does this usually take and does it require internet? I have **** internet right now because of something called "Asia Pacific Downtime Blah Blah" my ISP keeps telling me.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-09-09T11:20:31+00:00

    thank you Yan it's working now thanks for taking the time to give your advice you have a great day

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-09-14T14:50:51+00:00

    My problem: each time I tried to install, orange box popped up, then disappeared after about 1.5 secs, then nothing.

    • Tried running as administrator - no joy.
    • Tried disabling all startup services and programs - no joy.
    • Went to https://diagnostics.office.com/#/, downloaded their tool and ran it.

    That worked.  Hope it does for you.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-09-16T06:15:53+00:00

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    2018-09-16T08:57:28+00:00

    How do you unsubscribe from this thread?

    There...

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-09-24T18:59:38+00:00

    Running as administrator got me further. We'll see how far. It's sad that it took a community member almost TWO F'in years later to come up with a solution to the initial issue  (on page FOUR of this thread). Pathetic! I killed the installation process and restarted it as an administrator. Got a message about not finding Powershell, which I DO have installed. Clicked ok on that message and the install finished. 

    I'm new to OneNote but I've been tortured for YEARS with Sharepoint and this is looking like deja vu.

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