Re: recurring Windows Configuration box appears since installing Publisher 2007

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This post was in the Office newsgroup yesterday.

I recently installed Office 2007 Pro as an upgrade to Office XP on my
Vista32 system. Like many other people I encountered the problem of
each Office application displaying the "Please wait for Office to
configure....." at startup.

Like most people I just canceled this and everything ran fine. But I
got tired of doing this and spent several hours searching for a fix.
That's when I discovered just how wide-spread this problem is.

I was not able to discover a fix that worked for me. So I decided to
outsmart it.

What I did was stop at the "Are you sure you want to cancel" dialog and
then I started task manager. I saw there was a Setup.exe running. This
had to be the routine that was issuing the message. So I searched my C:
for it and found it several setup.exe's. But this location seemed like
the right location:

c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\office12\office setup
controller

Sure enough there is setup.exe in that directory. So I renamed it to
setup.exe.office12 so I'd have it if I ever needed to go back and
re-do/update my Office installation.

Doing this renamed stopped the "Wait to...." dialogs from appearing.
Now my Office 2007 apps start right up - except for Excel which shows
the dreaded "stdole32.tlb" message. If anyone knows how to fix this I'd
love to hear the solution.

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Birk Binnard
http://www.birkbinnard.com

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Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"sparklinbluiz" <sparklinbluiz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mary,

I guess you figured since I wrote again, it did NOT work :( This morning when
I logged in, the network password box was waiting for me, I hit cancel, (since
I know the password is fine) and sure enough the configuring office 2007 box
came up again. I'm at my wits end. I know I can uninstall Publisher and it
will go away; I now seem to remember that this is why I didn't have the
program on here. I think this happened awhile back and I uninstalled it
because I couldn't find a fix. This time however, since my business cards are
on here I need to find the fix. The laptop is Vista and isn't compatible with
either of my printers or I would just print cards from there. Purchasing a new
printer is not an option at this time.

Does anyone have any other suggestions I can try?

Thanks.

"Mary Sauer" <mary.sauer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This Knowledge Base article has detailed information and links to other help
articles.
Information about using 2007 Office suites and programs on a computer that is
running another version of Office
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091/en-us

There is a link in the above to this
How to install and to repair 2007 Office features
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924611/

Have you considered installing Outlook 2007?


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Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"sparklinbluiz" <sparklinbluiz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am very frustrated with this problem and hope someone can help.

Ever since I installed Publisher 2007, I have been having trouble with my
Outlook 2003. I was not happy with the entire suite of programs on Office
2007 Enterprise but since I had already designed my business cards with
Publisher 2007, I needed to load it on my desktop. (My Office 2003 version
didn't include Publisher). Ever since installing the Publisher, from time to
time
when Outlook (2003) downloads email, a windows installer box appears saying
it needs
to configure Office Enterprise 2007; the dialogue box says "configuring", a
status bar appears and it seems to be working something. Every so often it
will say changes will not take effect until system restart but even after
restart it comes back. I was very carefuly not to install any other parts of
Office 2007 Enterprise; I unchecked all boxes except for Publisher. It is
very frustrating and slows down my work flow waiting for this configuration
box and I never know when it will appear and can't figure out any rhyme or
reason to when it does. Also, once in awhile I get the box that asks for
network password but when I click cancel it is fine. From what I've read
online, the Publisher 2007 shouldn't affect the 2003 products and that
Outlook is the only program that seems to really conflict with different
versions.

One person had suggested I run the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility but
when I read the website it specifically said it was not to be used on Office
2007 products so I did not run it.

Please help!

Thank you.










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