How to prevent Ms-Office 2007 Configuration Process From running every time
Have you ever experienced this problem? Whenever you open Microsoft Office 2007 products like word or excel, a setup window will open with title configuration process. The setup will run every time you open a office product. Many people have experienced this problem. After setup word / excel will eventually open. But this is really annoying.
A client of mine recently came up with this problem. He purchased a Dell laptop with Windows 7 64 bit and office 2007 enterprise trial pre-installed. After the ms-office trial period had expired he brought his laptop to me. I first uninstalled the ms-office and installed the full version. Then this problem started. The Windows installer will run every time when opening word /excel.
I already had this problem on my Windows XP 32-bit machine with office 2007 enterprise. I used to just cancel the setup and the word / excel application will open. Now i want to find a solution for this. I googled for a solution. There are numerous situations and conditions that will cause this error. Somebody suggested that the problem is related to registry permission. That means the current user does not have read permission to some of the office related registry keys. Somebody told me to look the event viewer to find any warning / error event related to ms office launch. But my machine did not have any such event logs.
Another work around suggested was to add a registry key. I tried the following registry entry and it worked fine on my Windows XP computer. You too can try this. Just copy the below line and put it in the the Run windows. (Start -> Run) and press ok. This will solve the problem for both word and excel. This code will prevent the Windows installer from running everytime you open word / excel.
reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1
reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1
For office 2007 use 12.0 and office 2003 use 11.0
This worked fine one my Windows XP. I tried this on the Windows 7 with no success. After reading many forums and applying the suggestion i still could not solve the problem on Windows 7. I created another user and logged in using that user and installed. Still got the error. This time the configuration proces is not running instead i got error that the windows installer is not properly installed. This occured when i tried to launch word from start -> programs shortcut.
I reinstalled the Windows 7. I used the upgrade option while installing. After the installation everything worked fine! So you too can try re-installing windows. This will solve problems on Windows 7 and even Vista 64-bit operating systems.
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