Thanks Susan.
I already uninstalled the Office Activation Assistant, but still no joy.
I have read in another post, the possibility of a "rgstrtn.lck" file causing
the error, but doesn't appear to be the case for Windows 7.
Still have the error during setup and cannot proceed?
Dan.



"Susan Ramlet" wrote:

Uninstall the Office Activation Assistant, as well, then try your
installation again.

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"Dan" wrote in message
...
On a recently purchased laptop, I uninstalled the trial version of Office,
however the laptop powered down half way through. Although in Control
Panel/Programs I no longer see the trial version of Office, so seemingly
the
uninstall completed.
Now when I attempt to load my Office Home and Student 2007 version, I type
in the Product Key which it accepts, the install commences, and then backs
out with the message "Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 encountered
an
error during setup".
I am running Windows 7.