On 1 May, 19:27, Chad Garber (no longer disgusted)
.com wrote:
Why does the confiuration wizard run every time I start an Office 2007
standard application. This is insane. I thought eventually the wizards would
chill out but no luck. Every time I start Word, excel or even an 3rd party
program that uses Office 2007, the wizard comes on.

FIXED!

After doing a fresh install of Vista, the problem has now been
resolved for me!

My best guess was that the various beta and trial version of office
2007 had left some nasty things lying around.