Vista Ultimate and Office 2007

I am using Office 2007 with Vista Ultimate and all works OK except Outlook - when I start Outlook it posts a message saying it is going to configure MS Office Professional Hybrid 2007 - if I cancel this several times Outlook starts OK but the same message appears when sending an email
All used to work OK and this message never used to appear but now it does - I have followed Microsoft instructions to fully remove Office and then reinstalled but same result.
The office 2007 is an OEM version since I run a computer business and made my own system, and I did read somewhere that this may have a bearing on the problem.
Be grateful if someone could help please
Many thanks
Martin

 

Have done that as well and just get the same result each time - I just downloaded and installed all the Office 2007 updates and that made it even worse!! When I open Outlook now it initially displays the Office installation window and takes ages apparently reinstalling and then back to the same messages about Office Hybrid 2007
Is this a Vista problem? I think I shall have to consider Windows 7 although I did have Vista working much as I wanted it
Regards
Martin

 

Vista Ultimate and Outlook 2007

I purchased the pre-installation disks for system builders when Office 2007 came out so I could install Office on the PCs I was building - purchasing OEM licenses as appropriate. My own license is for Office Professional 2007 OEM that I purchased and originally installed when I built my own PC.
This problem only affects Outlook and not the other components of Office it seems - why?
Regards
Martin
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Vista Ultimate and Outlook 2007

Have been through exercise of deleting all previous versions of Office if any remained, deleted Office2007 and tried other suggestions to completely remove Office 2007 although this seems impossible to do. I have then reinstalled Office 2007 and now find the following:
If I start Excel, Powerpoint or Publisher these startup OK
If I start Access or Word I get a progress box open which says "Configuring 2007 Microsoft Office System" - after a while this completes and Word or Access start up OK.
If I cancel this progress box when it appears I get a message that Professional Hybrid 2007 is being configured and then that vanishes and Word or Access start OK.
Does this make any sense to anyone?? Why should this only affect certain parts of Office?
Regards
Martin

 

OK so no one has any answers to my problems with Office 2007 - have done an in depth uninstall of all forms of Office and then went back to Office 2003 - still same configuration window comes up before each application will start.

So in the bin with Office - why use microsoft products when there is no need - OpenOffice is free and does all I want and works really well also Incredimail imported all my settings, etc from Outlook and works better and faster than Outlook!

All problems resolved and horribly expensive microsoft products disposed of.

Martin

 

No but I have posted the question in other places - I am basically too busy to keep on banging my head against the brick wall and will wait until I build my new machine after Christmas and install Windows 7 on it and having removed it from my Vista system, will install it on Win7 hopefully without any problems.
I was going to try the beta of 2010 but I am sure if I put that on my Vista system I will just get the same problem again.
Likely to be a registry entry or entries that is causing this?
I have tried a free uninstall program which has a deep search option to get rid of all entries relating to Office - the search had reached a total of over 120,000 registry items relating to Office and then my system restarted due to an upgrade in the early morning! - perhaps I should run it again.
Cheers
Martin