RE: Office 2007 Install Error 2203

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Hi Tom,

Based on my experience, you can try the following three suggestions:

Before we start, please make sure that you are using an Administrator
account to perform the following steps. (Not the user account in the
administrator group)

* Suggestion 1
===========

To remove Office 2007 Beta completely, follow the steps below:

1. Download Windows Installer CleanUp Utility. The information and download
link is contained at the following KB article:

290301 Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/en-us

2. After you have downloaded and installed it, please see if Office 2007
entry is displayed on the list. If it is, please highlight and remove it.
If not, please skip this step.

3. Remove the installation files, and stop the 2007 Office services

4. Remove the beta release version of the 2007 Office registry subkeys

5. Remove the beta release version of the 2007 Office installation files
and folders

The detailed information on how to perform steps 3-5 can be found at the
following KB article:

928218 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/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;928218

* Suggestion 2
===========

In some situations, this issue can also be caused by the corruption of
Windows Installer. The latest version of Windows Installer is 3.1. To
manually install Windows Installer 3.1, please visit the following web link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=889482FC-5F56-4A38-
B838-DE776FD4138C&displaylang=en

Download and install Windows Installer 3.1, then double click Setup.exe on
your Office media to install Office again.

* Suggestion 3
===========

Additionally, you can try to check the permission of following folder:

C:\Windows\Temp

To make sure that you have full control of this folder.


Regards,

Leon Hao

Microsoft Online Partner Support
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