Re: Opening Office 2007 App Progress Bar Runs "Configuring Office Professional"

Hi Patrick.

Thanks. You have posted some great articles on your blog over the years, and I'm a fan of them.

I want to tell you what I had in the reg, and what I did. I did not have Office 2003 to my knowledge. I have had it on Vista builds in Beta testing before I could get the trials for the Beta of Office 2007. I had a trial of Office 2007 on, but I uninstalled it when Office 2007 released. I had to use an MSKB that was a bit tedious to uninstall the trial because it would not uninstall from Add/Remove and I have seen the same issues I had with the trial on this group.

The MSKB I used was this one:

Error message after you remove the beta release version of a 2007 Office
suite or program and then try to install the original release version of a
2007 Office suite or program: "Setup is unable to proceed"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218/en-us

But honestly, I am sure I didn't use the KB ion this RTM version of Vista; I used it on another Vista build prior to RTM or another Vista RTM where I had a Beta trial of Office 2007 or an RTM trial of Office 2007 installed. I haven't installed Office 2003 on this RTM Vista.

Here's what I saw in the Reg and what I did:

In the reg there is

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0 but the *only single subkey under it is Outlook for some reason.

I have no trouble whatsoever opening and using all components of Outlook 2007. The only app that gave me that setup run was Word.

Now I have

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12\Word\ Options.

What I took you to mean, and did, was to go there and create a new DWord value at Options (named NoRereg set to 1).

I did this, and it worked like a charm. I hope that's what you meant for me to do. I was a little confused by your steps that you may mean to do it under Office 11, and honestly I have no idea in the world why there is an Office 11 subkey when I didn't have Office 11(2003) installed on this Vista RTM.

Thanks so much for solving this problem. I did see it on Vista beta builds prior to RTM, and my analysis is that's because I had Office 2003 installed on Vista Beta before they made Office 2007 Beta trials public. Then when I uninstalled Office 2003 on those builds, to use the 2007 trials, maybe some files remained that Add/Remove missed.

Let me know if I did what you meant. Word is popping up quick now and the setup progress bar is gone.

Thanks very much for the help.

CH



"Patrick Schmid [MVP]" <pdschmid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ehokdUSsHHA.4796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sounds like this: http://pschmid.net/blog/2007/04/20/110

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"Chad Harris" <MSFTmuchtofinish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ujSrD6RsHHA.1208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

After testing all the apps, this only happens when I try to open Word. The
others open as normal.

CH

"Chad Harris" <vistaneedsmuchowork.net> wrote in message
news:uU%23Ui4RsHHA.4364@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have Office Pro 2007 on Vista since it released. I haven't had >problems
>like this with RTM, but did during the Beta of both of them. Now >starting
>today, when I open an Office app, instead of it popping up like normal, >a
>prorgress bar shows up "configuring Office professional" and it the app
>will not open up until this thing runs for 20-30 minutes.
>
> I'm looking towards the Office Diagnostics from Help when Word finally
> opens, and the next step would be to use the Windows Installer Cleanup
> Utitlity and then to uninstall Office and to reinstall it.
>
> Does anyone understand this sudden behavior?
>
> CH
>
>


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