Access to Office Customization Tool

Hi all

Instructions in Knowledge Base were followed to the letter but I never got
into OCT to be able to change values re Email default.

I have Office Professional 2007 but I got a message about certain files not
being present when I tried setup.exe /admin and setup.exe on its own never
got me into OCT either.

Suggestions please.

Best regards

Philip Hunt
--
Graewood Business Services, Kwinana, Perth, Western Australia

Hi Philip,

The Office products have retail and volume licensed versions available for most of the editions.

The Office Customization Tool (OCT) is built into Setup.exe, but the supporting files/folder are only provided in enterprise/volume
license editions. If on your DVD/CD you find a folder that has a folder name
ending in .WW if there is an 'R' (retail) just before the .WW part, then the OCT files are not included in the product you have.

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"Philip Mark Hunt" wrote in message
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Hi all

Instructions in Knowledge Base were followed to the letter but I never got
into OCT to be able to change values re Email default.

I have Office Professional 2007 but I got a message about certain files not
being present when I tried setup.exe /admin and setup.exe on its own never
got me into OCT either.

Suggestions please.

Best regards

Philip Hunt
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Hello Bob

Thank you for that advice. Yes I have the retail version.

The bottom line is that I want to use another Microsoft product, i.e.
Hotmail, for all my email needs, and fromwhatever web page prompt or web
browser I may be using at any particular time, yet because of the action of
installing Office 2007, that action has set the system default to Outlook.
Because of the limitations of some other software I need to be able to get in
and SAFELY change that system default!!

I found a knowledge base article with relevance to this issue - brief
extract follows -

KB 944290

1st para under Method 2: Post-deployment

Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using
Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that
you reinstall the operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these
problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.

I do not want to take risks, but how do I get round this problem please?

Best regards

Philip
--
Graewood Business Services, Kwinana, Perth, Western Australia


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi Philip,

The Office products have retail and volume licensed versions available for most of the editions.

The Office Customization Tool (OCT) is built into Setup.exe, but the supporting files/folder are only provided in enterprise/volume
license editions. If on your DVD/CD you find a folder that has a folder name
ending in .WW if there is an 'R' (retail) just before the .WW part, then the OCT files are not included in the product you have.

======================
"Philip Mark Hunt" wrote in message
...
Hi all

Instructions in Knowledge Base were followed to the letter but I never got
into OCT to be able to change values re Email default.

I have Office Professional 2007 but I got a message about certain files not
being present when I tried setup.exe /admin and setup.exe on its own never
got me into OCT either.

Suggestions please.

Best regards

Philip Hunt
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*