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Office 2007 configuring on each start up
Hi Trev, Your idea sounds intriguing, but I can't find the area of "local security policies" you mentioned below. I tried searching through the help files to find it, and I can't find any hints related to "administrator account status" in the Administrator Tools section of the control panel. If you or someone else can help out, this idea sounds like it would help with the never-ending "Please wait while Setup does something-or-other" messages whenever I try to open an Office 2007 program. Thanks, Louise __________________________________________________ ________ I may have found a fix, but I haven't tried it, I solved the problem by taking the long way around about 2 days ago, I reinstalled xp and loaded office 2007 then upgraded to vista ultimate. but what I found that may work (someone please try and let me know) go to: control pannel administrator tools local security policies, expand it and go to security options, then at the top(in the right pane) you will see "accounts: administrator account status" - it is set by default to disabled so enable it then you may need to restart your PC. hopefully this works I stumbled onto this while trying to change the vista login screen to classic. Trev. -- canadianliving ------------------------------------------------------------------------ canadianliving's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/canadianliving.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/office-setup/659180.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Office 2007 configuring on each start up
WHOOO HOOO!!! I SOLVED IT!!! At least for me! I had exact same problems, as it seems MOST of you did too - but I had it with WINXP and Office 2003 Standard with Outlook Business Contact Manager (POS...) After WEEKS of scratching my head - reading numerous message boards and trying EVERYTHING... I think I know now by heart all the techarena boards and all the same references to the same worthless MS tech support cases on so many of the various help boards out there with members all having the EXACT SAME PROBLEM really with no resolution... "Windows Installer starts every time I open Office, Word, Outlook, etc" I even went out - bought a new hard drive for my laptop AND a 1TB usb external drive to work it out with all these suggestion on these boards... I've restore my new drive so many time in the past week I can't believe it's still working! OK - enough already Eric... what was the solution for you? SIMPLE FOLKS - 1) FORGET EVERYTHING YOU READ - UNTIL YOU OPEN THE "EVENT VIEWER" ... brain fart - I should have know this from LONG ago... ALWAYS LOOK IN THE SYSTEM EVENT LOG - FIRST!!! Then if you can't figure it out - go after those hard to decipher program logs in all those other posts you read... a)Right Click on "My Computer" icon on the desktop, select "MANAGE" b)The Computer Management tool built in to XP opens - Click on the list on the left under "System Tools" on the "Event Viewer" c)Since we're having problems with a particular application - why not click on "Application" 2) NOW - Look carefully at the displayed list of system events... look for the warning signs - the yellow triangle with a bang ( ! ) in the middle. open each of them by double clicking on the line item anywhere... it will open a pop-up window that has that particular "Event Properties" 3) READ - READ and look at the "Description" section... I have several where it simply said something to the tune of " Detection of product .... feature 'ProductNonBootFiles' failed during request for component ...." skip these... figure 'em out if you want to... but move on.. its not what we were looking for... I opened another and another - I began noticing that a lot of them were screaming at me the same bloody thing - here's a bit... " Detection of product .... feature 'ProductNonBootFiles' failed. The resource 'c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\OPA11.BAK' does not exist. Whoa... something to look into more... SO... 4) I simply browsed from mycomputer to the c: root folder - then on to the above highlighted directory where - sure enough, OPA11.BAK did not exist.. the computer is not lying... EPIPHANY MOMENT - LOOK OUT... OH CRAP! I remember backing up my hard drive with Acronis so that I could transfer all my info to a new hard drive... part of that backup process it asked if it could save space by not backing up temp files and bak files I think was included... SO - that may have been a reason this file was missing... I, like a lot of fellow 'puter nerds out there seem to never have enough hard drive space for all I do... so I contantly run CCleaner and other drive space optimization tools - usually no problems... I think somewhere along the lines I must have deleted the backup... which for some reason or another is now REQUIRED - someone please check with MS and verify this - that the .bak file is required now to be able to open any updated Office Suite programs... I came to this conclusion BECAUSE... the next steps CURED my case... 5) Copy the DAT file in that folder. Right click the existing file in that folder - for me it was OPA11.DAT . COPY it to the same directory - and an exact copy is made - but it is named "COPY OF...DAT". 6) RENAME your new copy to OPA11.BAK Voila! Problem Solved! 7) Open Word, Outlook, Excel - Smile happily and be glad you know Eric - thesailor - from Wichita, KS (I'm a real estate broker and investor now... If I can do it - you can do it... ) 8) Get back to work... or become the hero for the office and take a lunch/smoke break. I realize all our problems are nearly identical - and there are probably other things going on in a lot of the cases - but for heavens sake - look at the EVENT VIEWER and look what its telling you... would have saved me a week of no emails, stress beyond belief and loss of productivity... I wonder how many hours are lost in the corporate environment on this one item... I found NO WHERE ELSE this solution... I hope it works for you! I hope it is just this easy for you too! If this helps anyone else - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE forward this post on and reply back here so we know it works for you too! -Eric Henderson, Broker Advantage Partners LLC Realty -- thesailor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thesailor's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/127830.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/office-setup/659180.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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