Office keeps installing on Vista

[Nancy]

I have a new Vista PC which came with a trial version of Office 2007. I
installed Office 2003 but didn't uninstall the 2007. I only used the 2003
version and everything worked fine until the 2007 started opening for no
apparent reason. Since the trial was up anyway, I uninstalled it from the
Control Panel. Now when I open a Word, Excel, or Powerpoint document from a
folder, I get the "preparing to install" window and "please wait while
configuring . . . ". This also happens when I open the programs directly.
Plus on Excel, it also gives me an error "one yof your object libraries
(stdole32.tlb) is missing or damaged. Please run setup to install it." Then
I have to click OK and finally the program opens after a few minutes. I've
tried uninstalling 2003 and reinstalling it. No help. I've gone into
regedit to give full permissions. No help. I downloaded Office SP3. No
help. I've read everything I can to self-fix. No help. I tried to
right-click on any Office program shortcut to "run as administrator" but that
option isn't there anymore since this problem started. Not sure why. I also
downloaded the trial version of Office 2007 again since the "continuous
install" problem didn't happen when the OEM 2007 trial was on my PC. It
didn't make any difference and now regardless of which Office version I open,
I get the "trying to install" window.

One tech suggested I use the Windows Cleanup Utility as he thought Office
2007 may not have completely uninstalled from the control panel. He said I
should use the Utility to completely remove both the 2003 and 2007 version.
Then reinstall only the one I want, which is 2003. I haven't done it yet
because I'm a little concerned it might mess up something else and make
things worse.

Another tech said:
Right-click on an Office program shortcut, choose to run the Office program
as Administrator, accept the EULA, close the Office program, and then start
the Office program normally.
I couldn't do that option since the "run as administrator" wasn't there
anymore. Then he finally said to repost this whole problem in Vista instead
of the Office discussion board which is why I'm now here hoping to get some
answers.

Here's what I need answers to:
1. Why can't I right-click any Office program and see the "run as
administrator" option anymore?
2. What's the magic fix to this whole thing?
3. How does a problem like this happen in the first place so if it's
something I did, I can avoid doing it again?

Please help. I appreciate any and all suggestions but appreciate it even
more if whomever reads this, takes the time to read EVERYTHING I've already
tried so as not to tell me the same things.

Thanks.

 

[BirgerH]

Your'e not the only one.
I tryed all the same solutions like you - with the same result.
But the same installation on my laptop running XP SP2 works fine.
If you read the diskussion on Office-groups, there are a lot with that
problem.
Does it give some meaning, that I allready have OpenOffice.org 2.x
installed, maybee not built for Vista???

 

[BirgerH]

Hi Nancy.
I think I have solved the problem - anyway I solved mine.
Go back to the office forum and read my answer to "Setup Installation File
runs".

 

[f/fgeorge]

Hi Nancy.
I think I have solved the problem - anyway I solved mine.
Go back to the office forum and read my answer to "Setup Installation File
runs".

I solved the problem on a friends computer by changing the name of the
Office12 directory and then reinstalling Office 2007. Office 12 and
Office 2007 are one and the same, if you change the directory name it
thinks you have not installed it yet.

 

[coffee-turtle]

Corrupted Profile

One other possibility:

Try logging in as a different user and see if Office 2007 starts properly.

If so, the user account you were using is corrupted. Create a new profile for that user and migrate the data to the new profile. Some basic instructions can be found at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151

If old profiles work fine, but new profiles you create have problems with Office 2007, it might be that the .Default user profile has corruption. You will need to copy the profile from a profile that does work to the .Default user profile (show hidden and system files to see this account. Be very careful).

If not and Office 2007 behaves the same no matter who you are logged in as, hopefully the above posting will work for you.