how do i stop office 2007 configuring startup

I have installed office 2007 on two computers without problems, on my other
computer however every time i start office 2007 it configues from scratch and
takes ages to load. Any solutions would be welcome. I have tried reinstalling.

[DougKlippert]

Have you tried to repair it?
a few ppl asked me to help them out with access. So i installed access and got the fix for you.
I'm still trying to get this to work. I've run the acl in. I have an MS Access application that uses MS Access 2003 RT but no other components of MS Access 2003. I have MS Access 2007 installed too because it is the corporate office system. When I the App and run MS Access 2007, I get configuration dialog from the later, which I have to let finish. The next time I run the App, it too runs a config dialog.
Any ideas?

[Tomasdepomas]

The problem is that there are permissions issues of some registry entries.

There two ways of fixing this problem.
1. Fix every registry entry that's on your PC
( a few websites/forums advise this)
2. Fix only the registry entries which are 'broken'
( that's my approach )

Either way you would have to use SubInAcl. Download it from microsoft.com

This tool allows us to edit registry entries even those which you need special rights for.
We will make simple files, depending on the application you need to fix, with code that will fix your registry entries.

1. Download and install SubinAcl.
2. Locate the install folder (default is Program Files/Windows Resource Kits/Tools/)
3. Open Notepad
4. Add the lines you need for your applications (you can find the lines bellow)
5. Save the file as "Officefix.cmd" in the folder where you found SubinAcl.
6. Open the officefix.cmd

I work on Windows Vista (Business) this fix is not tested on other Operating Systems then Vista and is only tested for Office 2007

I can try to help you out, but i'll need some information from you.
I'll need some information from you'r logfiles, to get this information follow the next steps.
These steps are based on Vista but will probably not differ much from another windows Operation System.

First open MS Access and wait while it's configuring.
This way the last entry in the logfile will be an error from Access.
When Access is all finished you can close it and open the configuration panel.
Then make sure the configuration panel is showing the 'classic view'.
Now find the Administrative tools, open it and then open the 'Event Viewer'
in XP go to Adminstrative tools, open Computer Management and then in the console tree expand Event viewer
Expand the Windows Logs in the tree, then click the application folder which is now shown.
You will see a large list of logs at the center of your screen, find the first 2 warnings from the top down.
If I am correct the source of the warnings will be "MsiInstaller" and the id's will be 1001 and 1004.
I need the general information from these warnings, especially with id 1004 which contains the resource. For example:
Detection of product '{90120000-00B4-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE}', feature 'PROJECTFilesIntl_1033', component '{D7DA3BED-BCC0-4381-904A-DEB81A4C7B07}' failed. The resource 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSProject.ALL.9\Display\1033' does not exist.
So select the complete warning like I did and copy it (press CTRL and C at the same time) and post it here.

As you mentioned in your post, I did not expect these warnings/messages.
I've googled your warning and the best thing i could find for you is this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891642
It looks like this page deals exactly with the problem your dealing with.
But since i can't reconstruct your situation you'll have to do it with my advice, meaning that I can't be sure this will actually be the solution.

[sglnzl]

I followed your instructions to look at the events. The top event is

Event Type: Information
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11728
Date: 18/12/2008
Time: 11:28:21 AM
User: CONQUEST\sliley
Computer: VPCXPMSO07
Description:
Product: Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 -- Configuration completed successfully.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 7b 39 31 31 32 30 30 30 {9112000
0008: 30 2d 30 30 32 45 2d 30 0-002E-0
0010: 30 30 30 2d 30 30 30 30 000-0000
0018: 2d 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 -0000000
0020: 46 46 31 43 45 7d FF1CE}

The next down is a warning.

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: WinMgmt
Event Category: None
Event ID: 63
Date: 18/12/2008
Time: 11:28:11 AM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: VPCXPMSO07
Description:
A provider, OffProv12, has been registered in the WMI namespace, Root\MSAPPS12, to use the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not correctly impersonate user requests.

And the next down is also a warning

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: WinMgmt
Event Category: None
Event ID: 63
Date: 18/12/2008
Time: 11:28:11 AM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: VPCXPMSO07
Description:
A provider, OffProv12, has been registered in the WMI namespace, Root\MSAPPS12, to use the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not correctly impersonate user requests.

This doesn't quite match up with your expectations but it's what I've got.

Also, Turn Off The User Account Control....when It's On The Patches Do Not Work.....

Delete The Fix Made With Notepad And Re-make It With All The Patches. I Made Some Changes. Use These Ones:

Windows Vista Home Edition GR and Office 2007 Ent.,

Product, office 2007 installed but every program opens with the installer each time I want to use it, followed by
the configuration screen and config activity. Program finally comes up, but I've wasted more than 5 minutes waiting.

I have also uninstalled and reinstalled office many times and nothing changed!

Another HUGE vote of thanks for solving this problem! It's ridiculous that
MS wanted to charge me $50 to open a support incident for this problem of
their own making.

I also needed to make a similar fix for PowerPoint, so here are the
appropriate entries for the .cmd file:

I have difficulty believing we have to edit dozens of lines of the Registry
to make Office not Configure itself randomly when we try and start a program.

Is this what MS expects the user to do?

i found out that i still had a free 30 day trial running on my pc as well as the actual office package, i just deleted the trial version and now it runs fine.

A really well explained post with everything that I
(as a bit of a PC noob) needed to get the problem fixed. Thanks again!

Sorry, not sure what you mean. More details on what "configuring startup"
means.

[achipol]

Rename the MS Office & Word Setup files - for me they were located in Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/Setup. I renamed the two exe files in there - Acme & AcmeWord to Acmex & AcmeWordx. Word started up right away without going through Configuring Microsoft Home & Student 2007....

for Ms Word 2007 to stop displaying the setup configuration each time you open the programme simply do the following steps:
step 1: go to run
step2:type "regedit"
step3:this will take you to registry editor here go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then to Software then to Microsoft then to Office then to 12.0 (if word 2003 go to 11.0) then Word then Options
step4: then right click options and then make "new" DWORD value
step5: name it as NoReReg
step6: double click on this and set the value to 1 from 0

Every time Vista Installer popuped for “Windows configures Microsoft Office professional 2007”
I installed office 2007 on Vista and it works well for several month. Yesterday I installed Visio 2003 from Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Every time when I opened Visio, it popuped a dialog to configure Microsoft Office, and then a registry key access error, and then rollback the configure progress. Then I try to uninstall Visio, same registry key access error. At last I tried various ways and successfully uninstalled Visio. But when I open I open an office product (Word/Excel/PowerPoint, and etc), it gives me a message “please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office professional Plus 2007”. Then it pops a window with a status bar for “Configuration Progress”. After several minutes, the office product opened. So I uninstalled office entirely, booted, and reinstalled again and again. My account is a domain user and is belong to administrators user group on my machine. I looked this up online, tried different approaches and finally found this one:

Either way you would have to use SubInAcl. Download it from microsoft.com
This tool allows us to edit registry entries even those which you need special rights for.
We will make simple files, depending on the application you need to fix, with code that will fix your registry entries.
1. Download and install SubinAcl.
2. Locate the install folder (default is Program Files/Windows Resource Kits/Tools/)
3. Open Notepad
4. Add the lines you need for your applications (you can find the lines bellow)
5. Save the file as "Officefix.cmd" in the folder where you found SubinAcl.
6. Open the officefix.cmd

I didn’t found the lines of code that “you can find the lines bellow”. Here is the script I used and it works:

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
secedit /configure /cfg %windir%infdefltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose

[gdanaher]

Simple fix. I hope you guys come back to this forum to read this post.

I had this problem where every time I started up say..Office or Powerpoint, it would start to configure Microsoft Enterprise or whatever and would take almost 5-10 minutes each time I wanted to use Office. I was almost late for school this morning. I went down to the Program Files folder and went straight to the exe. All you have to do is use the WINWORD application. I double clicked it and Word immediatly came up, no configuring. However, the same Microsoft word in my Start menu is the one that configures. That one is in some ProgramData folder.

Okay so I'm assuming you all installed the programs in the same location so use this...

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12

Copy and paste WINWORD, POWERPINT, or whatever you need to use, copy those "Application" files to wherever you'll find them, and start clicking those instead of however you originally launched them. Just rename WINWORD to Microsoft Word 2007 or whatever you want.

Well at least when I tried starting it from there it still tried to configure. All the shortcuts and whatever to MSOFFICE were in ProgramData.

I had a similar issue and after trying all conventional methods, ran the install program, selected custom and checked Access to install upon first use. Restarted the computer, ran Access, and after a few moments it started up, and further starts all worked quickly and properly. Go figure.

Navigating to WINWORD.EXE is the same as clicking START>ALL
PROGRAMS.MSOFFICE> <whatever app you need>.

The Desktop Icon and the Quick Launch Icon are shortcuts that are not
configured properly for one reason or another. You can delete the shortcuts
and make new ones.

I recently had this exact problem, the Desktop and Quick Launch icons
invoked the Configuration Wizard, but the START Menu worked correctly. I
deleted my shortcuts (icons) and created new ones that work properly. (You
can go to the START Menu and find the Office application you want, hold the
CTRL Key and drag the app to the Desktop. This will create a shortcut. You
can then drag the shortcut (hold the CTRL Key to copy the shortcut, do not
hold the CTRL Key to move it) to the Quick Launch bar if you want it there.

I'm not certain what caused the problem, but my guess is that I made the
shortcuts before rebooting and finishing the configuration wizard. Whatever.

Really! I did not have the problem when I started from there -- Start>All
Programs>MSOffice. I did not have to navigate to winword.exe in Windows
Explorer. All I had to do was rebuild the shortcuts. If you had started a
shortcut, then clicked Start, and selected Word from the first menu, then
that would point to the shortcut and not to the EXE file that you get from
the MSOffice menu under All Programs.

Having said that, on my machine (the one I'm using to post right now),
Start>Programs>MSOffice>Word points to a shortcut, and if my directions are
correct, then this should make the problem we're talking about. My theory is
that the shortcuts (all of them) are somehow corrupted, and you can use the
EXE to open the application. Since the shortcuts are all hosed-up, then you
simply delete them and make new ones from the EXE.

You and I are saying the same thing, but you had an extra shortcut that I
had as the actual EXE. Hmmm ...

I'll have to remember this because I thought my expereince would be pretty
much universal, but you've proven me wrong on that. I knew the EXE would
work when the shortcuts did not, but you had shortcuts where I was making a
call directly to the EXE.

[JezzaG]

I am suffering from this problem and just can not solve it. I have Vista and Office 2007 including Project and Visio 2007, no other Office applications loaded on an almost new Dell laptop. I get the configuration dialog box every time I start an Office app, and even if the app is open I get the dialog when I click on say a Word document in Explorer, or worse still if it is an attachment in an email. This is making my PC almost unusable and I am so frustrated that Microsoft don't acknowledge this problem exists. I have tried the noregedit Dword entries with no success, and also the suggestions in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911682/en-us (as far as they go as they relate to older OS and versions of Office). This is the first time in many years I have been totally stumped by a major PC problem. I have searched the Internet extensively and have not found any other suggestions, please can anyone help!

For reference I get the MSiInstaller ID 1004 and 1001 errors, and I have also found that starting the apps by clicking on c:\program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Winword.exe for example opens the app fine without the dialog box - (but the dialog box still comes up if I then try to open a Word attachment in my email).

I did try the NoReReg key for a number of the different Office apps and it hasn't made any difference for me.

I am seriously considering uninstalling Office 2007 and putting back Office 2000, nobody seems to have found a definitive solution.

Well I have an update - of sorts. I thought I'll have to bite the bullet and pay for support, but then found it cost over £100 as I have a high end version of Office. Then I managed to get a Microsoft Technical Support credit, so thought "great, I'll speak to them and get this solved once and for all".

Four weeks of calls with first line support and escalation to 2nd line support and literally days of my wasted time trying out all of their suggestions and running their troubleshooting tools and I am still no nearer a solution! We found that after a complete wipe of all office apps and a clean install that it worked fine, but as soon as I applied the service packs it broke again. They have no idea why or how to fix it. So If you have a Microsoft application running on a Microsoft Operating system on a new machine and apply a Microsoft patch and it breaks, don't expect Microsoft 2nd line support to have any clue as to how to fix it. Amazing. In any other industry they would be out of business...........

Luckily, it doesn't pop up every time we use an Office app, but only on occaisions.
I noticed it will happen when we run an Office app after an older version of an Office app has been used.
(I still have to use Access97 to access and make changes in our workgroup file, since this feature is dropped in v12)

I'm wondering if it is worth me trying any of these fixes, since we're only occaisionally inconvenienced.

Then I read the bizo about shortcuts, so thought to share something I just witnessed.
I copied our database into a new user's profile, created a shortcut using the right click menu, then dragged it to his desktop.
Then, when I went to test it, it said "not found" and windows did it's searching thing.
In the properties of the shortcut, I chose "find target", and it found it - without me having to browse to it.
Next time I tried it, it worked to find the database file, but popped up the configuration screen (and ground away for the obligatory five minutes or so).

See Starting Office application delayed every time by Windows configuration

[urheller]

I too am having this problem and have only partially solved it after hours of work and many failed attempts. Before the problem I had Windows 7 x64 Ultimate installed with Office 2007 Pro+ SP2. I wanted to use Visio and I had a copy of Visio 2003. The Visio 2003 installation hung and ever since then I have had the configuration screen pop up problem.

I can't uninstall Office 2007 as it says the installation is corrupted, even immediately after a successful re-install. I created shortcuts to winword and excel by dragging them to my desktop from my Program Files (x86)/Office12 directory. If I click on the short cuts the programs launch immediately. If I click on an existing word or excel document or use the Start - All Programs -Office method of launching I still get the configuration pop up. It seems like most of the proposed solutions don't work. I also attempted the total removal of Microsoft Office by hacking the registry as suggested by Microsoft, that didn't work. I bought PC Tools Registry Mechanic but it didn't help this problem either.

I got a legal copy of Visio 2007 from work. It completes installation but when I go to run it I get "Preparing to Install" Pop-up that eventually terminates with "Error 25004.Config.Xml not specified; A valid config.xml file must be authored when deploying'(null)'."

Any suggestions from anyone?

I found a simple answer here without needing to download extra software for editing.

"The fix to the problem is very simple as it turns out - simply run the following commands (by pressing the Windows Key+R or typing it into the Start/Run command box. Use the line with Office\11.0 if you have Office 2003 installed and Office\12.0 if you have Office 2007 installed. You can use both if you have both installed :

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

That is it. Office 2007 might want to have one more spin round the block with it's configuration dialog box, but that should be it."

When I enter this

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

in the run dialog I get the error message Windows cannot find "reg" Any ideas?

Why don't you just edit the registry directly?

Follow JoAnn's advice by using regedit and editing directly or are you
running this in a command window (Start, Run CMD Enter? If not try that.