Resolved Needing to configure Office Pro 2007 with each page opened

I decided to update from Microsoft Office 2000 to Microsoft Office Professional 2007. I had 2000 on my Win XP operating system partition, but decided to install 2007 on my storage partition. All seemed to work fine, with both present, so I uninstalled 2000. Now, whenever I open any Office page, I have to wait for configuration. It says "Configuring Microsoft Office Professional 2007 ". Before I mess it up any further, I thought I'd run this by the experts, here. I'm not sure if I could just open my 2007 CD and do a repair or if I have to do a fresh install, and I'm not sure if it is OK to install it on a non-operating system partition. Please let me know what would work.

 

Hi Barry, MS Office 2007 should have under Tools > Diagnostic Repair. If you open > All Programs > MS Office > MS Office Tools > MS Diagnostics.
See if that helps. Neil.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, Neil. It said it found and fixed one error with the setup, but the problem continues. I put in the CD and ran the repair function, but that hasn't fixed the problem, either. Any other suggestions?

 

Arie, you're a real miracle worker. That fixed all but Microsoft Excel. I wasn't sure 2007 would work for me, so I waited till I discovered it worked before uninstalling 2000. Do you have one of these simple fixes for Excel, also? I am still using Win XP Home Edition SP3.

 

Arie, from your Post:
[Your mistake was removing Office 2000 after installing Office 2007.]

I gather from that, that you should un-install MS Office before updating a newer version? Neil.

 

Neil, when you install a new suite, it asks if you want to replace the old one. I chose to keep it until I knew the new one would work. Arie is right in saying it is better to replace it than uninstall the old one later.

 

Arie, it still is a problem, but only with Excel. I've attached a screen shot, so you can see what it does. Would it work if I did the same thing but made a slight change to this?: reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

 

I can only open it as current user, but these are the messages that come up when I do that.
stdole2.tlb then Cannot use object linking and embedding

 

I couldn't find anything online that provided an answer. Let me know if you find something. By the way, when I click these messages they go away and I can use Excel. I can also cancel the configuration and directly use Excel. This doesn't seem to limit my use of the program; it just adds an extra step.

 

Sorry, Arie. The shift key didn't change anything. I can still only run as current user, and the messages continue to reappear. I'm not sure what they mean, as I can click on them and they disappear, allowing me to use Excel. It still wants to configure, if I don't click run as, but I can also stop that without seeing any functional change in Excel, not that I do much other than keep track of my expenditures on Excel.

 

Though Word works fine now, I continue to have the issue with Excel. It continually attempts to configure when I open it up. Does anyone have any idea what can be done about this. I don't have to wait for it to configure, as when I click the red X in the upper right, it opens properly, but it is an extra step that is unnecessary. The repair function on Microsoft Office CD doesn't fix the problem. Is there a way other than uninstalling the whole suite and reinstalling it?

 

Arie,
My registry key actually says HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration\{91120000-0014-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} and the DPCFile says
E:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ID_10014.DPC. I don't know if there is a difference between the 2E and 14 or the fact it is installed on a partition that isn't my operating system partition. Your other registry fix didn't change anything.