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

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It isn't what I meant exactly, but it should work in your case. When you double-click a Word file, does it open in Word 2007?
You probably have something corrupted in your installation. The KB you pointed out though is the correct one for manually removing Office 2007. You upgraded this machine from a Vista Beta to RTM? That wouldn't surprise me that it causes problem. The safer approach would have been to wipe the hard drive and install everything clean as RTM.

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"Chad Harris" <MSFTmuchtofinish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:epXM1hXsHHA.1216@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

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
>
> Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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> http://pschmid.net
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> Outlook 2007 Performance Update: http://pschmid.net/blog/2007/04/13/105
> Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
> ***
> Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
> RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://ribboncustomizer.com
> OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
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> Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed
>
>
>
>
> "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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