I just suffered a complete disaster after trying this solution. I'm not
absolutely certain that this is what caused it, but it's the only thing I
can think of. FYI, my machine is running Vista Ultimate.

The symptom of my problem was that after trying this solution and restarting
my machine, neither my normal user account nor the Administrator were able
to run most applications. I'd get a "not enough storage available to run
this program" error for almost everything i tried, including System Restore.
The "not enough memory" message was clearly untrue - the utilization of my
2GB RAM was only about 40%. This was such a serious situation that I had no
alternative but to back up all of my documents, wipe the drive, and
reinstall Vista. Subsequent installation of all Office apps worked without
a hitch...no repeated installs or configurations, so I am now officially out
of this problem loop.

This is no consolation to anyone, I'm sure. (It was bloody horrifying to
me!) I can only hope that MSFT is monitoring these problems and will come
out with a fix for these config/setup loops.

I hope that anyone having this problem has better luck than I did.

"Mary Sauer" wrote in message
...
I had this same issue, another poster used the following solution, which in
desperation I used. It works for me... He/she concluded it was a permission
problem.


Download and install SubInACL.exe
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Open WordPad and Paste the following

cd /d "%programfiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f /
grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f /
grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f /
grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f /
grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %windir%\*.* /grant=administrators=f /
grant=system=f

Save as
fix_office_permissions.cmd

Double-click this file...

I make no guarantees, as I said earlier this worked for me. The orginal
post was titled "Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start
Word 2" by kimwindsor at hotmail.com 5/18/2007




--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

wrote in message
ups.com...
I am having exactly the same problem. Just installed Office Ultimate
2007 on Vista, and it's pretty much unusable due to this installer
loop. I can't find a solution ANYWHERE. The only clue I can give is,
this happened on Office XP, and that caused me to UNINSTALL it and
purchase 2007. Now it won't work either? It must be a Vista problem.

~Wilder