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Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2007
Chad Garber (no longer disgusted) 5/1/2007 6:27:00 PM
Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards would
chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2007
"Tim" <timfeld_at_hotmail.com> 5/1/2007 10:41:45 PM
Try running a repair of Office setup. I believe it is an option when you
insert the Office 2007 CD/DVD in the drive.

Tim



"Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)"
<ChadGarbernolongerdisgusted[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4AADC687-9202-402E-A2DF-BF30713BC862[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text]
> Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
> standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards
> would
> chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
> program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.

Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Chad Garber (no longer disgusted) 5/2/2007 11:17:00 AM
I have. I have even completely removed every little hint of any kind of
office program on my computer and then cleanly installed office 2007 and it
still does the exact same thing (on both my computers-both having Vista). The
repair has no effect on this problem. Thanks though.

"Tim" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> Try running a repair of Office setup. I believe it is an option when you
> insert the Office 2007 CD/DVD in the drive.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> "Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)"
> <ChadGarbernolongerdisgusted[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4AADC687-9202-402E-A2DF-BF30713BC862[ at ]microsoft.com...
> > Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
> > standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards
> > would
> > chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
> > program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.
>
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
U Guess <cskitch[ at ]gmail.com> 5/2/2007 12:43:08 PM
On 2 May, 12:17, Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)
<ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> I have. I have even completely removed every little hint of any kind of
> office program on my computer and then cleanly installed office 2007 and it
> still does the exact same thing (on both my computers-both having Vista). The
> repair has no effect on this problem. Thanks though.
>
> "Tim" wrote:
> > Try running a repair of Office setup. I believe it is an option when you
> > insert the Office 2007 CD/DVD in the drive.
>
> > Tim
>
> > "Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)"
> > <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >news:4AADC687-9202-402E-A2DF-BF30713BC862[ at ]microsoft.com...
> > > Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
> > > standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards
> > > would
> > > chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
> > > program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.

I have exactly the same issue. For me it appears to affect Word and
Excel, but not Outlook. I have the Enterprise 2007 edition installed.

I've seen lost of discussion about this issue elsewhere but no one
seems to have an answer. I've tired a few things buut almost at a
point now that I am considering re-installing Vista.

For info, I previously had the Standard 2007 Trail installed. I wonder
if this is related.

Has anyone been able to fix this annoying problem?

Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Chad Garber (no longer disgusted) 5/2/2007 1:11:01 PM
Actually, that is what my computer is doing as well: Excel, Word, etc makes
the wizard start but Outlook does not.

"U Guess" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> On 2 May, 12:17, Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)
> <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > I have. I have even completely removed every little hint of any kind of
> > office program on my computer and then cleanly installed office 2007 and it
> > still does the exact same thing (on both my computers-both having Vista). The
> > repair has no effect on this problem. Thanks though.
> >
> > "Tim" wrote:
> > > Try running a repair of Office setup. I believe it is an option when you
> > > insert the Office 2007 CD/DVD in the drive.
> >
> > > Tim
> >
> > > "Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)"
> > > <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > >news:4AADC687-9202-402E-A2DF-BF30713BC862[ at ]microsoft.com...
> > > > Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
> > > > standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards
> > > > would
> > > > chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
> > > > program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.
>
> I have exactly the same issue. For me it appears to affect Word and
> Excel, but not Outlook. I have the Enterprise 2007 edition installed.
>
> I've seen lost of discussion about this issue elsewhere but no one
> seems to have an answer. I've tired a few things buut almost at a
> point now that I am considering re-installing Vista.
>
> For info, I previously had the Standard 2007 Trail installed. I wonder
> if this is related.
>
> Has anyone been able to fix this annoying problem?
>
>
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Gerry Hickman <gerry666uk[ at ]newsgroup.nospam> 5/2/2007 9:22:17 PM
Hi,

If you want help with this, post your Application Event logs related to
dates/times of starting Office.

Please post them as plain text.

Chad Garber (no longer disgusted) wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> Actually, that is what my computer is doing as well: Excel, Word, etc makes
> the wizard start but Outlook does not.
>
> "U Guess" wrote:
>
>> On 2 May, 12:17, Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)
>> <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>> I have. I have even completely removed every little hint of any kind of
>>> office program on my computer and then cleanly installed office 2007 and it
>>> still does the exact same thing (on both my computers-both having Vista). The
>>> repair has no effect on this problem. Thanks though.
>>>
>>> "Tim" wrote:
>>>> Try running a repair of Office setup. I believe it is an option when you
>>>> insert the Office 2007 CD/DVD in the drive.
>>>> Tim
>>>> "Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)"
>>>> <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:4AADC687-9202-402E-A2DF-BF30713BC862[ at ]microsoft.com...
>>>>> Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
>>>>> standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards
>>>>> would
>>>>> chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
>>>>> program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.
>> I have exactly the same issue. For me it appears to affect Word and
>> Excel, but not Outlook. I have the Enterprise 2007 edition installed.
>>
>> I've seen lost of discussion about this issue elsewhere but no one
>> seems to have an answer. I've tired a few things buut almost at a
>> point now that I am considering re-installing Vista.
>>
>> For info, I previously had the Standard 2007 Trail installed. I wonder
>> if this is related.
>>
>> Has anyone been able to fix this annoying problem?
>>
>>


--
Gerry Hickman (London UK)
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Gerry Hickman <gerry666uk[ at ]newsgroup.nospam> 5/2/2007 9:25:07 PM
Hi,

Everyone who is having this problem appears to be running Office
Enterprise 2007? Is that right?

I guess it's a bit rich to call it "Enterprise" if the apps don't even
start properly:)

U Guess wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> On 2 May, 12:17, Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)
> <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> I have. I have even completely removed every little hint of any kind of
>> office program on my computer and then cleanly installed office 2007 and it
>> still does the exact same thing (on both my computers-both having Vista). The
>> repair has no effect on this problem. Thanks though.
>>
>> "Tim" wrote:
>>> Try running a repair of Office setup. I believe it is an option when you
>>> insert the Office 2007 CD/DVD in the drive.
>>> Tim
>>> "Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)"
>>> <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:4AADC687-9202-402E-A2DF-BF30713BC862[ at ]microsoft.com...
>>>> Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
>>>> standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards
>>>> would
>>>> chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
>>>> program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.
>
> I have exactly the same issue. For me it appears to affect Word and
> Excel, but not Outlook. I have the Enterprise 2007 edition installed.
>
> I've seen lost of discussion about this issue elsewhere but no one
> seems to have an answer. I've tired a few things buut almost at a
> point now that I am considering re-installing Vista.
>
> For info, I previously had the Standard 2007 Trail installed. I wonder
> if this is related.
>
> Has anyone been able to fix this annoying problem?
>


--
Gerry Hickman (London UK)
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Chad Garber (no longer disgusted) 5/3/2007 1:05:01 AM
No I am running Office Standard 2007.

"Gerry Hickman" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> Hi,
>
> Everyone who is having this problem appears to be running Office
> Enterprise 2007? Is that right?
>
> I guess it's a bit rich to call it "Enterprise" if the apps don't even
> start properly:)
>
> U Guess wrote:
> > On 2 May, 12:17, Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)
> > <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >> I have. I have even completely removed every little hint of any kind of
> >> office program on my computer and then cleanly installed office 2007 and it
> >> still does the exact same thing (on both my computers-both having Vista). The
> >> repair has no effect on this problem. Thanks though.
> >>
> >> "Tim" wrote:
> >>> Try running a repair of Office setup. I believe it is an option when you
> >>> insert the Office 2007 CD/DVD in the drive.
> >>> Tim
> >>> "Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)"
> >>> <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >>> news:4AADC687-9202-402E-A2DF-BF30713BC862[ at ]microsoft.com...
> >>>> Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
> >>>> standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards
> >>>> would
> >>>> chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
> >>>> program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.
> >
> > I have exactly the same issue. For me it appears to affect Word and
> > Excel, but not Outlook. I have the Enterprise 2007 edition installed.
> >
> > I've seen lost of discussion about this issue elsewhere but no one
> > seems to have an answer. I've tired a few things buut almost at a
> > point now that I am considering re-installing Vista.
> >
> > For info, I previously had the Standard 2007 Trail installed. I wonder
> > if this is related.
> >
> > Has anyone been able to fix this annoying problem?
> >
>
>
> --
> Gerry Hickman (London UK)
>
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
"Peter Foldes" <okf22[ at ]hotmail.com> 5/3/2007 3:15:01 AM
Try and use the Windows Installer Clean Up Utility and see if it will solve this issue with the configuration wizard.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

"Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)" <ChadGarbernolongerdisgusted[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4D99FC7A-063F-49FF-8FC7-65F742350119[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text]
> No I am running Office Standard 2007.
>
> "Gerry Hickman" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Everyone who is having this problem appears to be running Office
>> Enterprise 2007? Is that right?
>>
>> I guess it's a bit rich to call it "Enterprise" if the apps don't even
>> start properly:)
>>
>> U Guess wrote:
>> > On 2 May, 12:17, Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)
>> > <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> >> I have. I have even completely removed every little hint of any kind of
>> >> office program on my computer and then cleanly installed office 2007 and it
>> >> still does the exact same thing (on both my computers-both having Vista). The
>> >> repair has no effect on this problem. Thanks though.
>> >>
>> >> "Tim" wrote:
>> >>> Try running a repair of Office setup. I believe it is an option when you
>> >>> insert the Office 2007 CD/DVD in the drive.
>> >>> Tim
>> >>> "Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)"
>> >>> <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >>> news:4AADC687-9202-402E-A2DF-BF30713BC862[ at ]microsoft.com...
>> >>>> Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
>> >>>> standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards
>> >>>> would
>> >>>> chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
>> >>>> program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.
>> >
>> > I have exactly the same issue. For me it appears to affect Word and
>> > Excel, but not Outlook. I have the Enterprise 2007 edition installed.
>> >
>> > I've seen lost of discussion about this issue elsewhere but no one
>> > seems to have an answer. I've tired a few things buut almost at a
>> > point now that I am considering re-installing Vista.
>> >
>> > For info, I previously had the Standard 2007 Trail installed. I wonder
>> > if this is related.
>> >
>> > Has anyone been able to fix this annoying problem?
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gerry Hickman (London UK)
>>
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Chad Garber (no longer disgusted) 5/3/2007 7:47:01 PM
It didn't do any good. Wizard still shows its ugly head.

"Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> Actually, that is what my computer is doing as well: Excel, Word, etc makes
> the wizard start but Outlook does not.
>
> "U Guess" wrote:
>
> > On 2 May, 12:17, Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)
> > <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > I have. I have even completely removed every little hint of any kind of
> > > office program on my computer and then cleanly installed office 2007 and it
> > > still does the exact same thing (on both my computers-both having Vista). The
> > > repair has no effect on this problem. Thanks though.
> > >
> > > "Tim" wrote:
> > > > Try running a repair of Office setup. I believe it is an option when you
> > > > insert the Office 2007 CD/DVD in the drive.
> > >
> > > > Tim
> > >
> > > > "Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)"
> > > > <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > >news:4AADC687-9202-402E-A2DF-BF30713BC862[ at ]microsoft.com...
> > > > > Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
> > > > > standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards
> > > > > would
> > > > > chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
> > > > > program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.
> >
> > I have exactly the same issue. For me it appears to affect Word and
> > Excel, but not Outlook. I have the Enterprise 2007 edition installed.
> >
> > I've seen lost of discussion about this issue elsewhere but no one
> > seems to have an answer. I've tired a few things buut almost at a
> > point now that I am considering re-installing Vista.
> >
> > For info, I previously had the Standard 2007 Trail installed. I wonder
> > if this is related.
> >
> > Has anyone been able to fix this annoying problem?
> >
> >
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Chad Garber (no longer disgusted) 5/3/2007 8:06:01 PM
Disk Diagnostic — Errors in system event log
The Disk Diagnostic found evidence of hardware errors. Instability in your
Microsoft Office programs may be the result of these hardware errors.

This result occurs if one of the following has happened recently:

The Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) feature of
your hard disk has found errors. SMART is a feature that some disk drive
manufacturers provide to give users advance notice of potential hard disk
failure.
Microsoft Office Diagnostics has found blocked-out (failed) sectors on your
hard disk.
Microsoft Office has had trouble accessing files from the hard disk; it
needs these files to function properly.
We recommend that you do the following:

Check the results of other diagnostics, and follow the instructions for
resolving any issues that the diagnostics have reported. After you resolve
those issues, run Microsoft Office Diagnostics again to see if this Disk
Diagnostic issue is resolved.
If you continue to get this result, contact someone, such as the vendor of
your computer or hard disk.

"Gerry Hickman" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> Hi,
>
> If you want help with this, post your Application Event logs related to
> dates/times of starting Office.
>
> Please post them as plain text.
>
> Chad Garber (no longer disgusted) wrote:
> > Actually, that is what my computer is doing as well: Excel, Word, etc makes
> > the wizard start but Outlook does not.
> >
> > "U Guess" wrote:
> >
> >> On 2 May, 12:17, Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)
> >> <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >>> I have. I have even completely removed every little hint of any kind of
> >>> office program on my computer and then cleanly installed office 2007 and it
> >>> still does the exact same thing (on both my computers-both having Vista). The
> >>> repair has no effect on this problem. Thanks though.
> >>>
> >>> "Tim" wrote:
> >>>> Try running a repair of Office setup. I believe it is an option when you
> >>>> insert the Office 2007 CD/DVD in the drive.
> >>>> Tim
> >>>> "Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)"
> >>>> <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >>>> news:4AADC687-9202-402E-A2DF-BF30713BC862[ at ]microsoft.com...
> >>>>> Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
> >>>>> standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards
> >>>>> would
> >>>>> chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
> >>>>> program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.
> >> I have exactly the same issue. For me it appears to affect Word and
> >> Excel, but not Outlook. I have the Enterprise 2007 edition installed.
> >>
> >> I've seen lost of discussion about this issue elsewhere but no one
> >> seems to have an answer. I've tired a few things buut almost at a
> >> point now that I am considering re-installing Vista.
> >>
> >> For info, I previously had the Standard 2007 Trail installed. I wonder
> >> if this is related.
> >>
> >> Has anyone been able to fix this annoying problem?
> >>
> >>
>
>
> --
> Gerry Hickman (London UK)
>
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
U Guess <cskitch[ at ]gmail.com> 5/3/2007 10:26:04 PM
On 3 May, 04:15, "Peter Foldes" <o...[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> Try and use the Windows Installer Clean Up Utility and see if it will solve this issue with the configuration wizard.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
> --
> Peter
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>
> "Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)" <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messagenews:4D99FC7A-063F-49FF-8FC7-65F742350119[ at ]microsoft.com...
>
>
>
> > No I am running Office Standard 2007.
>
> > "Gerry Hickman" wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
>
> >> Everyone who is having this problem appears to be running Office
> >> Enterprise 2007? Is that right?
>
> >> I guess it's a bit rich to call it "Enterprise" if the apps don't even
> >> start properly:)
>
> >> U Guess wrote:
> >> > On 2 May, 12:17, Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)
> >> > <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >> >> I have. I have even completely removed every little hint of any kind of
> >> >> office program on my computer and then cleanly installed office 2007 and it
> >> >> still does the exact same thing (on both my computers-both having Vista). The
> >> >> repair has no effect on this problem. Thanks though.
>
> >> >> "Tim" wrote:
> >> >>> Try running a repair of Office setup. I believe it is an option when you
> >> >>> insert the Office 2007 CD/DVD in the drive.
> >> >>> Tim
> >> >>> "Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)"
> >> >>> <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> >>>news:4AADC687-9202-402E-A2DF-BF30713BC862[ at ]microsoft.com...
> >> >>>> Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
> >> >>>> standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards
> >> >>>> would
> >> >>>> chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
> >> >>>> program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.
>
> >> > I have exactly the same issue. For me it appears to affect Word and
> >> > Excel, but not Outlook. I have the Enterprise 2007 edition installed.
>
> >> > I've seen lost of discussion about this issue elsewhere but no one
> >> > seems to have an answer. I've tired a few things buut almost at a
> >> > point now that I am considering re-installing Vista.
>
> >> > For info, I previously had the Standard 2007 Trail installed. I wonder
> >> > if this is related.
>
> >> > Has anyone been able to fix this annoying problem?
>
> >> --
> >> Gerry Hickman (London UK)- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

No good. I tried the Clean up tool (kb290301) and still get the
"configuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
standard application".

I posted in the other thread:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.office.setup/browse_thread/thread/f1f835873664550a/a2c920286a9a95ce?hl=en#a2c920286a9a95ce


That 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pip\' has some sort of permissions problem.

Any ideas???


Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Chad Garber 5/3/2007 10:47:03 PM
"Peter Foldes" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> Try and use the Windows Installer Clean Up Utility and see if it will solve this issue with the configuration wizard.
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

It didn't do any good. Wizard still shows its ugly head.

Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Chad Garber 5/3/2007 10:52:00 PM
"Gerry Hickman" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> Hi,
>
> If you want help with this, post your Application Event logs related to
> dates/times of starting Office.
>
> Please post them as plain text.
Disk Diagnostic — Errors in system event log
The Disk Diagnostic found evidence of hardware errors. Instability in your
Microsoft Office programs may be the result of these hardware errors.

This result occurs if one of the following has happened recently:

The Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) feature of
your hard disk has found errors. SMART is a feature that some disk drive
manufacturers provide to give users advance notice of potential hard disk
failure.
Microsoft Office Diagnostics has found blocked-out (failed) sectors on your
hard disk.
Microsoft Office has had trouble accessing files from the hard disk; it
needs these files to function properly.
We recommend that you do the following:

Check the results of other diagnostics, and follow the instructions for
resolving any issues that the diagnostics have reported. After you resolve
those issues, run Microsoft Office Diagnostics again to see if this Disk
Diagnostic issue is resolved.
If you continue to get this result, contact someone, such as the vendor of
your computer or hard disk.




Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2007
"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> 5/4/2007 1:52:52 AM
Hi C.S.,

Is this a Vista 32 bit or 64 bit installation? The Registry key you mentioned, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pip\
wouldn't necessarily be used by Office (which is 32-bit) in a Windows 64-bit environment, even if it's there and could create a
permissions issue.

These steps may be helpful to you in resolving this (have one prior instance that was resolved through these)

1- Reregister MSIEXEC (.exe) [MS Windows Installer]

2- Uninstall Microsoft Office 2007.

3- In the registry take ownership and delete the following key: HKCR\WOW6432Node\.pip

4- Install Office 2007 again (might want to restart the PC first).

=====================
<<"U Guess" <cskitch[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1178231164.337055.221920[ at ]y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
No good. I tried the Clean up tool (kb290301) and still get the
"configuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
standard application".

I posted in the other thread:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.office.setup/browse_thread/thread/f1f835873664550a/a2c920286a9a95ce?hl=en#a2c920286a9a95ce


That 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pip\' has some sort of permissions problem.

Any ideas??? >>
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*



Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Gerry Hickman <gerry666uk[ at ]newsgroup.nospam> 5/4/2007 10:03:55 PM
Hi Peter,

Peter Foldes wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> Try and use the Windows Installer Clean Up Utility and see if it will solve this issue with the configuration wizard.
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

Why do you recommend this tool for this behavior, I don't understand...

I thought that tool was for cleaning up a corrupt MSI database after a
failed uninstall?

--
Gerry Hickman (London UK)
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Gerry Hickman <gerry666uk[ at ]newsgroup.nospam> 5/5/2007 12:07:44 AM
Hi Chad,

I asked for your Application Event Log, that looks like your System
Event Log?

Either way, it looks like you've got bigger problems than Office 2007.
This warning is saying your hard-drive is heading for a crash!

Chad Garber wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> "Gerry Hickman" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you want help with this, post your Application Event logs related to
>> dates/times of starting Office.
>>
>> Please post them as plain text.
> Disk Diagnostic — Errors in system event log
> The Disk Diagnostic found evidence of hardware errors. Instability in your
> Microsoft Office programs may be the result of these hardware errors.
>
> This result occurs if one of the following has happened recently:
>
> The Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) feature of
> your hard disk has found errors. SMART is a feature that some disk drive
> manufacturers provide to give users advance notice of potential hard disk
> failure.
> Microsoft Office Diagnostics has found blocked-out (failed) sectors on your
> hard disk.
> Microsoft Office has had trouble accessing files from the hard disk; it
> needs these files to function properly.
> We recommend that you do the following:
>
> Check the results of other diagnostics, and follow the instructions for
> resolving any issues that the diagnostics have reported. After you resolve
> those issues, run Microsoft Office Diagnostics again to see if this Disk
> Diagnostic issue is resolved.
> If you continue to get this result, contact someone, such as the vendor of
> your computer or hard disk.
>
>
>
>


--
Gerry Hickman (London UK)
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2007
U Guess <cskitch[ at ]gmail.com> 5/8/2007 8:04:52 AM
On 1 May, 19:27, Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)
<ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
> standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards would
> chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
> program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.

FIXED!

After doing a fresh install of Vista, the problem has now been
resolved for me!

My best guess was that the various beta and trial version of office
2007 had left some nasty things lying around.

Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2007
kimwindsor[ at ]aapt.net.au 5/10/2007 7:58:38 AM
On 8 May, 18:04, U Guess <cski...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> On 1 May, 19:27, Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)
>
> <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
> > standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards would
> > chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
> > program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.
>
> FIXED!
>
> After doing a fresh install of Vista, the problem has now been
> resolved for me!
>
> My best guess was that the various beta and trial version of office
> 2007 had left some nasty things lying around.



I'm hoping someone can help me here as I have the exact problem after
running Office XP and Enterprise 2007 together and then removing
Office XP. The OS is Vista Ultimate and I DON'T wish to re-install
the OS just to solve an Office issue. My event log has produced
numerous warnings, on of the more significant is :

Detection of product '{90120000-0030-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}', feature
'ProductFiles', component '{6252B847-BADA-43D4-9252-E39767FA40A1}'
failed. The resource 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pip\' does not exist.

I tried to access the HCR\.pip\ key in Regedit and receive the
following message:

"Error Opening Key
...pip can not be opened.
An error is preventing this key from being opened.
Details: Access is denied."

I have tried the Windows Installer Clean up utility to remove all
traces of Office XP, cleaned the registry, reinstalled Office 2007
three times and still have the install/configuring messages popping up
upon loading the Office programs..
ANY information that might be helpful would possibly save me from
doing some serious damage to an otherwise new notebook and would also
be most appreciated !!!

Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2007
kimwindsor[ at ]hotmail.com 5/11/2007 1:45:10 AM
On 10 May, 17:58, kimwind...[ at ]aapt.net.au wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> On 8 May, 18:04, U Guess <cski...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 1 May, 19:27, Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)
>
> > <ChadGarbernolongerdisgus...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
> > > standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards would
> > > chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
> > > program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.
>
> > FIXED!
>
> > After doing a fresh install of Vista, the problem has now been
> > resolved for me!
>
> > My best guess was that the various beta and trial version of office
> > 2007 had left some nasty things lying around.
>
> I'm hoping someone can help me here as I have the exact problem after
> running Office XP and Enterprise 2007 together and then removing
> Office XP. The OS is Vista Ultimate and I DON'T wish to re-install
> the OS just to solve an Office issue. My event log has produced
> numerous warnings, on of the more significant is :
>
> Detection of product '{90120000-0030-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}', feature
> 'ProductFiles', component '{6252B847-BADA-43D4-9252-E39767FA40A1}'
> failed. The resource 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pip\' does not exist.
>
> I tried to access the HCR\.pip\ key in Regedit and receive the
> following message:
>
> "Error Opening Key
> ..pip can not be opened.
> An error is preventing this key from being opened.
> Details: Access is denied."
>
> I have tried the Windows Installer Clean up utility to remove all
> traces of Office XP, cleaned the registry, reinstalled Office 2007
> three times and still have the install/configuring messages popping up
> upon loading the Office programs..
> ANY information that might be helpful would possibly save me from
> doing some serious damage to an otherwise new notebook and would also
> be most appreciated !!!

Well it just keeps getting better... I'm saving money on haircuts I
assure you ! My installation of OXP is now doing the same thing with
O2007 unistalled ! I cannot use either Office Suite without this
issue.

Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Chad Garber 5/12/2007 4:01:02 PM

"Well it just keeps getting better... I'm saving money on haircuts I assure
you ! My installation of OXP is now doing the same thing with O2007
unistalled ! I cannot use either Office Suite without this issue."

Anyone have any luck with this seeminly common problem? It may be easy for
some to reinstall Vista but I have so many applications that would need to be
installed, its just not feasible for me. I would rather not use Office at all
than have to reinstall the entire operating system -- again! Anybody out
there in Microsoft land have any answers to these beyond annoying issues?
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
kimwindsor[ at ]hotmail.com 5/14/2007 11:57:14 PM
On 13 May, 02:01, Chad Garber <ChadGar...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> "Well it just keeps getting better... I'm saving money on haircuts I assure
> you ! My installation of OXP is now doing the same thing with O2007
> unistalled ! I cannot use either Office Suite without this issue."
>
> Anyone have any luck with this seeminly common problem? It may be easy for
> some to reinstall Vista but I have so many applications that would need to be
> installed, its just not feasible for me. I would rather not use Office at all
> than have to reinstall the entire operating system -- again! Anybody out
> there in Microsoft land have any answers to these beyond annoying issues?

Wish I could help Chad but everythings seems to have failed and I'm
not getting any further information from anyone. I really hope this
isn't being ignored...

Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
kimwindsor[ at ]hotmail.com 5/18/2007 9:12:56 AM
On 15 May, 09:57, kimwind...[ at ]hotmail.com wrote:
[Quoted Text]
> On 13 May, 02:01, Chad Garber <ChadGar...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> > "Well it just keeps getting better... I'm saving money on haircuts I assure
> > you ! My installation of OXP is now doing the same thing with O2007
> > unistalled ! I cannot use either Office Suite without this issue."
>
> > Anyone have any luck with this seeminly common problem? It may be easy for
> > some to reinstall Vista but I have so many applications that would need to be
> > installed, its just not feasible for me. I would rather not use Office at all
> > than have to reinstall the entire operating system -- again! Anybody out
> > there in Microsoft land have any answers to these beyond annoying issues?
>
> Wish I could help Chad but everythings seems to have failed and I'm
> not getting any further information from anyone. I really hope this
> isn't being ignored...

Well a serious amount of hard work and peserverance has paid off...
<insert ear-to-ear grin here>!!! I have resolved the issue on my
computer and am confident the following steps should do the same for
others experiencing this problem. After quite a bit of messing around
I was fairly sure that it the problem was due to a permissions issue
in Vista. Checking the Event Viewer numerous times and seeing the
references to registry keys that couldn't be accessed helped confirm
this. Trying to alter the permissions on some of these keys I also
noticed that nearly every Office relevant key would give an "access is
denied" when attempting to open them. None of these keys had any
permissions granted to them which struck me as strange. I attempted
to replace all permissions in the HKCR folder but found regedit would
either crash or return a failed message and the permissions would not
be changed. I was now determined to have the access that I deserved
as an administrator on my own computer !! SubInACL utility gave me
the power I needed, and all permissions were changed and the
configuration messages disappeared. It was probably overkill in
assigning permissions to every key in the registry but I was unsure of
what keys Office needed to access so I thought it best to alter them
all (this may be a security concern to some so it might be worth
coming up with a list of keys needed). To answer the question why it
was necessary to gain back permission of these keys in the first place
is beyond me, I'm not a programmer or developer but I hope someone who
is can shed some light on the issue. Whether the problem lies with
Vista or Office I don't know either. But anyway, onto the steps that
are oh so important... use them at your own risk - I can't guarantee
they'll work and you could possible do damage:

- download and install SubInACL (download from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en
)
- open notepad and paste in the following text

cd /d "%programfiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f /
grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f /
grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f /
grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f /
grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %windir%\*.* /grant=administrators=f /
grant=system=f

- save in notepad as fix_office_permissions.cmd
- double click the newly created file and allow to run (took about
5-10 mins on my system)

To the best of my knowledge these are the only steps on the internet
that deal specifically with this problem so I would love to know if
they work for others...
Cheers and best of luck all !!!

Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Senior 6/2/2007 1:10:00 PM
That was very helpful :) thank you very much I had almost given up, and was
about to downgrade to Office xp and never try 2007 again.
I had the same problem and after examining my events numerous times I found
that it had to be a registry problem, either a setting that was wrong or an
access problem, then I tried to alter the rights and I also got some errors ,
well with your batch I finally got my office 2007 to work, thank you very
much
There was some minor errors after I ran the batch file, but a vista repair
take care of them

Here is my story with the ms support team
I called MS support 3 weeks ago and they have called and emailed me about 5
- 10 times with all sorts of solutions, and every time I have told them that
if they wanted to solve the issue it would be in a registry issue, then they
called me on Friday and asked me to be patient as they needed to go through
all the programs on my pc (I already send them a log of installed programs on
my pc) and for the first time I lost my temper with them and told them that
it had nothing what so ever to do with the programs on my pc, and again I
told them to send my case to a office programmer team and forget about the
usual fiddling around support and not to call me again until they had send my
case to some ppl whit some knowledge on the matter, now I can’t wait to tell
them what the solution is





"kimwindsor[ at ]hotmail.com" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> On 15 May, 09:57, kimwind...[ at ]hotmail.com wrote:
> > On 13 May, 02:01, Chad Garber <ChadGar...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > "Well it just keeps getting better... I'm saving money on haircuts I assure
> > > you ! My installation of OXP is now doing the same thing with O2007
> > > unistalled ! I cannot use either Office Suite without this issue."
> >
> > > Anyone have any luck with this seeminly common problem? It may be easy for
> > > some to reinstall Vista but I have so many applications that would need to be
> > > installed, its just not feasible for me. I would rather not use Office at all
> > > than have to reinstall the entire operating system -- again! Anybody out
> > > there in Microsoft land have any answers to these beyond annoying issues?
> >
> > Wish I could help Chad but everythings seems to have failed and I'm
> > not getting any further information from anyone. I really hope this
> > isn't being ignored...
>
> Well a serious amount of hard work and peserverance has paid off...
> <insert ear-to-ear grin here>!!! I have resolved the issue on my
> computer and am confident the following steps should do the same for
> others experiencing this problem. After quite a bit of messing around
> I was fairly sure that it the problem was due to a permissions issue
> in Vista. Checking the Event Viewer numerous times and seeing the
> references to registry keys that couldn't be accessed helped confirm
> this. Trying to alter the permissions on some of these keys I also
> noticed that nearly every Office relevant key would give an "access is
> denied" when attempting to open them. None of these keys had any
> permissions granted to them which struck me as strange. I attempted
> to replace all permissions in the HKCR folder but found regedit would
> either crash or return a failed message and the permissions would not
> be changed. I was now determined to have the access that I deserved
> as an administrator on my own computer !! SubInACL utility gave me
> the power I needed, and all permissions were changed and the
> configuration messages disappeared. It was probably overkill in
> assigning permissions to every key in the registry but I was unsure of
> what keys Office needed to access so I thought it best to alter them
> all (this may be a security concern to some so it might be worth
> coming up with a list of keys needed). To answer the question why it
> was necessary to gain back permission of these keys in the first place
> is beyond me, I'm not a programmer or developer but I hope someone who
> is can shed some light on the issue. Whether the problem lies with
> Vista or Office I don't know either. But anyway, onto the steps that
> are oh so important... use them at your own risk - I can't guarantee
> they'll work and you could possible do damage:
>
> - download and install SubInACL (download from
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en
> )
> - open notepad and paste in the following text
>
> cd /d "%programfiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f /
> grant=system=f
> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f /
> grant=system=f
> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f /
> grant=system=f
> subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f /
> grant=system=f
> subinacl /subdirectories %windir%\*.* /grant=administrators=f /
> grant=system=f
>
> - save in notepad as fix_office_permissions.cmd
> - double click the newly created file and allow to run (took about
> 5-10 mins on my system)
>
> To the best of my knowledge these are the only steps on the internet
> that deal specifically with this problem so I would love to know if
> they work for others...
> Cheers and best of luck all !!!
>
>
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
"Lloyd Sheen" <a[ at ]b.c> 6/2/2007 7:45:27 PM

"Senior" <Senior[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B5FD977F-4BE6-48EB-A57F-89E873FFA300[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text]
> That was very helpful :) thank you very much I had almost given up, and
> was
> about to downgrade to Office xp and never try 2007 again.
> I had the same problem and after examining my events numerous times I
> found
> that it had to be a registry problem, either a setting that was wrong or
> an
> access problem, then I tried to alter the rights and I also got some
> errors ,
> well with your batch I finally got my office 2007 to work, thank you very
> much
> There was some minor errors after I ran the batch file, but a vista repair
> take care of them
>
> Here is my story with the ms support team
> I called MS support 3 weeks ago and they have called and emailed me about
> 5
> - 10 times with all sorts of solutions, and every time I have told them
> that
> if they wanted to solve the issue it would be in a registry issue, then
> they
> called me on Friday and asked me to be patient as they needed to go
> through
> all the programs on my pc (I already send them a log of installed programs
> on
> my pc) and for the first time I lost my temper with them and told them
> that
> it had nothing what so ever to do with the programs on my pc, and again I
> told them to send my case to a office programmer team and forget about the
> usual fiddling around support and not to call me again until they had send
> my
> case to some ppl whit some knowledge on the matter, now I can’t wait to
> tell
> them what the solution is
>
>
>
>
>
> "kimwindsor[ at ]hotmail.com" wrote:
>
>> On 15 May, 09:57, kimwind...[ at ]hotmail.com wrote:
>> > On 13 May, 02:01, Chad Garber <ChadGar...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > "Well it just keeps getting better... I'm saving money on haircuts I
>> > > assure
>> > > you ! My installation of OXP is now doing the same thing with O2007
>> > > unistalled ! I cannot use either Office Suite without this issue."
>> >
>> > > Anyone have any luck with this seeminly common problem? It may be
>> > > easy for
>> > > some to reinstall Vista but I have so many applications that would
>> > > need to be
>> > > installed, its just not feasible for me. I would rather not use
>> > > Office at all
>> > > than have to reinstall the entire operating system -- again! Anybody
>> > > out
>> > > there in Microsoft land have any answers to these beyond annoying
>> > > issues?
>> >
>> > Wish I could help Chad but everythings seems to have failed and I'm
>> > not getting any further information from anyone. I really hope this
>> > isn't being ignored...
>>
>> Well a serious amount of hard work and peserverance has paid off...
>> <insert ear-to-ear grin here>!!! I have resolved the issue on my
>> computer and am confident the following steps should do the same for
>> others experiencing this problem. After quite a bit of messing around
>> I was fairly sure that it the problem was due to a permissions issue
>> in Vista. Checking the Event Viewer numerous times and seeing the
>> references to registry keys that couldn't be accessed helped confirm
>> this. Trying to alter the permissions on some of these keys I also
>> noticed that nearly every Office relevant key would give an "access is
>> denied" when attempting to open them. None of these keys had any
>> permissions granted to them which struck me as strange. I attempted
>> to replace all permissions in the HKCR folder but found regedit would
>> either crash or return a failed message and the permissions would not
>> be changed. I was now determined to have the access that I deserved
>> as an administrator on my own computer !! SubInACL utility gave me
>> the power I needed, and all permissions were changed and the
>> configuration messages disappeared. It was probably overkill in
>> assigning permissions to every key in the registry but I was unsure of
>> what keys Office needed to access so I thought it best to alter them
>> all (this may be a security concern to some so it might be worth
>> coming up with a list of keys needed). To answer the question why it
>> was necessary to gain back permission of these keys in the first place
>> is beyond me, I'm not a programmer or developer but I hope someone who
>> is can shed some light on the issue. Whether the problem lies with
>> Vista or Office I don't know either. But anyway, onto the steps that
>> are oh so important... use them at your own risk - I can't guarantee
>> they'll work and you could possible do damage:
>>
>> - download and install SubInACL (download from
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en
>> )
>> - open notepad and paste in the following text
>>
>> cd /d "%programfiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
>> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f /
>> grant=system=f
>> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f /
>> grant=system=f
>> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f /
>> grant=system=f
>> subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f /
>> grant=system=f
>> subinacl /subdirectories %windir%\*.* /grant=administrators=f /
>> grant=system=f
>>
>> - save in notepad as fix_office_permissions.cmd
>> - double click the newly created file and allow to run (took about
>> 5-10 mins on my system)
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge these are the only steps on the internet
>> that deal specifically with this problem so I would love to know if
>> they work for others...
>> Cheers and best of luck all !!!
>>
>>

I followed all this and tried again. MS go .... yourselves. Back to open
office. Two great advantages.

IT WORKS

IT's FREE


Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
"Lloyd Sheen" <a[ at ]b.c> 6/2/2007 7:48:54 PM

"Senior" <Senior[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B5FD977F-4BE6-48EB-A57F-89E873FFA300[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text]
> That was very helpful :) thank you very much I had almost given up, and
> was
> about to downgrade to Office xp and never try 2007 again.
> I had the same problem and after examining my events numerous times I
> found
> that it had to be a registry problem, either a setting that was wrong or
> an
> access problem, then I tried to alter the rights and I also got some
> errors ,
> well with your batch I finally got my office 2007 to work, thank you very
> much
> There was some minor errors after I ran the batch file, but a vista repair
> take care of them
>
> Here is my story with the ms support team
> I called MS support 3 weeks ago and they have called and emailed me about
> 5
> - 10 times with all sorts of solutions, and every time I have told them
> that
> if they wanted to solve the issue it would be in a registry issue, then
> they
> called me on Friday and asked me to be patient as they needed to go
> through
> all the programs on my pc (I already send them a log of installed programs
> on
> my pc) and for the first time I lost my temper with them and told them
> that
> it had nothing what so ever to do with the programs on my pc, and again I
> told them to send my case to a office programmer team and forget about the
> usual fiddling around support and not to call me again until they had send
> my
> case to some ppl whit some knowledge on the matter, now I can’t wait to
> tell
> them what the solution is
>
>
>
>
>
> "kimwindsor[ at ]hotmail.com" wrote:
>
>> On 15 May, 09:57, kimwind...[ at ]hotmail.com wrote:
>> > On 13 May, 02:01, Chad Garber <ChadGar...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > "Well it just keeps getting better... I'm saving money on haircuts I
>> > > assure
>> > > you ! My installation of OXP is now doing the same thing with O2007
>> > > unistalled ! I cannot use either Office Suite without this issue."
>> >
>> > > Anyone have any luck with this seeminly common problem? It may be
>> > > easy for
>> > > some to reinstall Vista but I have so many applications that would
>> > > need to be
>> > > installed, its just not feasible for me. I would rather not use
>> > > Office at all
>> > > than have to reinstall the entire operating system -- again! Anybody
>> > > out
>> > > there in Microsoft land have any answers to these beyond annoying
>> > > issues?
>> >
>> > Wish I could help Chad but everythings seems to have failed and I'm
>> > not getting any further information from anyone. I really hope this
>> > isn't being ignored...
>>
>> Well a serious amount of hard work and peserverance has paid off...
>> <insert ear-to-ear grin here>!!! I have resolved the issue on my
>> computer and am confident the following steps should do the same for
>> others experiencing this problem. After quite a bit of messing around
>> I was fairly sure that it the problem was due to a permissions issue
>> in Vista. Checking the Event Viewer numerous times and seeing the
>> references to registry keys that couldn't be accessed helped confirm
>> this. Trying to alter the permissions on some of these keys I also
>> noticed that nearly every Office relevant key would give an "access is
>> denied" when attempting to open them. None of these keys had any
>> permissions granted to them which struck me as strange. I attempted
>> to replace all permissions in the HKCR folder but found regedit would
>> either crash or return a failed message and the permissions would not
>> be changed. I was now determined to have the access that I deserved
>> as an administrator on my own computer !! SubInACL utility gave me
>> the power I needed, and all permissions were changed and the
>> configuration messages disappeared. It was probably overkill in
>> assigning permissions to every key in the registry but I was unsure of
>> what keys Office needed to access so I thought it best to alter them
>> all (this may be a security concern to some so it might be worth
>> coming up with a list of keys needed). To answer the question why it
>> was necessary to gain back permission of these keys in the first place
>> is beyond me, I'm not a programmer or developer but I hope someone who
>> is can shed some light on the issue. Whether the problem lies with
>> Vista or Office I don't know either. But anyway, onto the steps that
>> are oh so important... use them at your own risk - I can't guarantee
>> they'll work and you could possible do damage:
>>
>> - download and install SubInACL (download from
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en
>> )
>> - open notepad and paste in the following text
>>
>> cd /d "%programfiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
>> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f /
>> grant=system=f
>> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f /
>> grant=system=f
>> subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f /
>> grant=system=f
>> subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f /
>> grant=system=f
>> subinacl /subdirectories %windir%\*.* /grant=administrators=f /
>> grant=system=f
>>
>> - save in notepad as fix_office_permissions.cmd
>> - double click the newly created file and allow to run (took about
>> 5-10 mins on my system)
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge these are the only steps on the internet
>> that deal specifically with this problem so I would love to know if
>> they work for others...
>> Cheers and best of luck all !!!
>>
>>

And the final insult. When I am uninstalling this I get a popup from
windows update. I only installed Word but it wants to download 7 updates of
which only one is for Word. Others for programs that are not even
installed.

MS you guys are falling behind. ever since Steve took over the company is
on its way down.


Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Senior 6/3/2007 12:28:01 PM
Dear lloyd Sheen

Didn't Kim Windsor's batch file help you with the problem?

Senior




Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
"Lloyd Sheen" <a[ at ]b.c> 6/3/2007 3:39:07 PM

"Senior" <Senior[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:181D7F14-F030-4006-AE97-C12C09876A9E[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text]
> Dear lloyd Sheen
>
> Didn't Kim Windsor's batch file help you with the problem?
>
> Senior
>
>
>
>

Nope no change. Still reconfigures each time it runs.


Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
kimwindsor[ at ]hotmail.com 6/29/2007 4:09:07 AM
Lloyd, not sure if you're still interested, but today I stumbled
across something unusual that may just explain the reason the batch
file didn't help you. I normally run Vista with User Account Control
(UAC) turned off (no need for explanations I hope!!) but was required
to turn it on to install a network printer - crazy Yes, but this is
Microsoft's documented answer to a printer that won't install - but
anyway, after enabling it I noticed the Office 2007 config screens
again !!! I had all the exact errors that I originally had so I
disabled UAC again and everything came good.
So Lloyd I'm thinking that maybe you had UAC enabled when you tried
running the batch file. I would recommend disabling it if this is the
case (life will be much more pleasant then anyway) and trying again.
I think we can assume that the whole issue is related to UAC and the
restrictions if places on permissions...
Cheers,
Kim

Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Tom Cooper 6/29/2007 10:54:00 AM
I am having the same problem. Will give your solution a try. This really
looks like a Microsoft design flaw.
Tom Cooper

"kimwindsor[ at ]hotmail.com" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> Lloyd, not sure if you're still interested, but today I stumbled
> across something unusual that may just explain the reason the batch
> file didn't help you. I normally run Vista with User Account Control
> (UAC) turned off (no need for explanations I hope!!) but was required
> to turn it on to install a network printer - crazy Yes, but this is
> Microsoft's documented answer to a printer that won't install - but
> anyway, after enabling it I noticed the Office 2007 config screens
> again !!! I had all the exact errors that I originally had so I
> disabled UAC again and everything came good.
> So Lloyd I'm thinking that maybe you had UAC enabled when you tried
> running the batch file. I would recommend disabling it if this is the
> case (life will be much more pleasant then anyway) and trying again.
> I think we can assume that the whole issue is related to UAC and the
> restrictions if places on permissions...
> Cheers,
> Kim
>
>
Re: Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start Word 2
Tom Cooper 6/29/2007 2:48:00 PM
I have tried all the solutions above, but nothing helped. I still keep
getting "please wait while windows configures Microsoft Office 2007" It does
that every time I start any office application and can take about 5 minutes
to complete, but works ok after it finishes. I am running Vista and only have
this problem with MS Office.
Tom Cooper


"kimwindsor[ at ]hotmail.com" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> Lloyd, not sure if you're still interested, but today I stumbled
> across something unusual that may just explain the reason the batch
> file didn't help you. I normally run Vista with User Account Control
> (UAC) turned off (no need for explanations I hope!!) but was required
> to turn it on to install a network printer - crazy Yes, but this is
> Microsoft's documented answer to a printer that won't install - but
> anyway, after enabling it I noticed the Office 2007 config screens
> again !!! I had all the exact errors that I originally had so I
> disabled UAC again and everything came good.
> So Lloyd I'm thinking that maybe you had UAC enabled when you tried
> running the batch file. I would recommend disabling it if this is the
> case (life will be much more pleasant then anyway) and trying again.
> I think we can assume that the whole issue is related to UAC and the
> restrictions if places on permissions...
> Cheers,
> Kim
>
>

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