Re: recurring Windows Configuration box appears since installing Publisher 2007

Hi Mary,
Thank you for passing along that article. Unfortunately for me, it doesn't
apply since I am on Windows XP Media Edition. I did a search for all the
setup.exe files and did not find any folders that even mentioned Office or
Microsoft Office that had a setup file. I did use the advice about starting
task manager while the configuration window was up and I found the file that
is running is: msiexec.exe. I did a search online and found that if that
file is in the Windows/System32 folder it is ok. It is but it is also in a
prefetch folder and the i386 folder but from what I read online, those don't
seem to indicate anything wrong therefore I can't see anything to rename to
fix the problem on my system.

The only other place I find a similar file is (exactly like this with upper
and lower case): MsiExec.exe.<8numbers&letters>.ini.inuse in the application
Data/applicationhistory folder of documents and settings (i did not post the
actual 8 digit number/letter sequence in case it identified my computer in
some way).

I don't know if this information will help identify my problem but I hope
so!

Thanks again.
sparklinbluiz

"Mary Sauer" <mary.sauer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

--
Birk Binnard
http://www.birkbinnard.com

--
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
news:eNjhR7DmJHA.1292@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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?


--
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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