Microsoft Office Professional Hybrid 2007

Hi,

I’m using Dell XPS710 which was earlier running with Windows XP and Office Small Business 2003. Last week I upgraded this to Vista from XP and Office Small Business 2003 to Office Professional 2007. There was no problem during OS or office up gradation also everything working well. But several times I saw a process running in the background of my system named ‘Microsoft Office Professional Hybrid 2007’.

Can anybody please tell me what is it and why is it running on my system? Thank you in advance.

Microsoft Office Professional Hybrid 2007 is nothing but an OEM medialess SKU which can make one drive image with the Hybrid SKU. Users can activate any of the following options depending on which key they are given/purchase. Options are as follows:

• Office Basic + Office Pro 60 day trial.
• Office Small Business Edition + Office Pro 60 day trial. Office Pro
• Office Pro (the full installed Office Pro)
• Office Pro 60 day trial.

I have seen something similar on my PCs as well. Usually it appears when I start MS Office PowerPoint. Everytime I use to get an message box saying the following:

"Preparing to install.
Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office Professional Hybrid 2007"

Now though you have explain above about Office Hybrid, can you please also let me know how can I stop this message box from appearing?

Thanks

I too have a problem with the message that others in this thread mention (below). It pops up every time I start/run a MS Office 2007 application (Outlook, Word, Powerpoint, Access) and I have to sit and wait until it finishes running through the install before I can proceed to the task I want to do, which can really slow down work flow.

"Preparing to install.."
"Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office Professional Hybrid
2007"

The MS Office Pro 2007 suite came pre-installed on a new Dell XPS running Vista Ultimate (02/08). The MS Office applications worked fine until late April when the hybrid message started popping up for no known reason.

I was wondering if anyone came up with an easy way to stop the message from popping up every time? Is the only solution to uninstall/reinstall MS Office Pro 2007?

Many thanks for any help offered.
EL Green

Run the following and you should no longer have problems with this. I applied it to a Dell XPS M1330 and it no longer has issues with the constant MS Office 2007 Professional being installed when opening Office 2007 apps. http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archi...04/739820.aspx