Microsoft Office 2003 Problem

[Davide]

Hi, i have the following problem with Office 2003 with SP2 and Vista
Ultimate

The first time i installed office 2003 all went ok, but word sometimes was
prone to crash. So i tried to uninstall and reinstall it. From that moment,
each time i launch Word, excel or access, before the program starts appears
a dialog telling me "Configuration of Office 2003..." "Collecting
information...". Seems it performs a little setup phase for about 20 seconds
just before the program starts.

How can i solve this problem? It's quite annoying and i can't find solutions
on the web. All the Microsoft Programs runs as administrator and runs in XP
SP2 compatily mode...

Hope there is a solution for this issue, anyway the only solution would be a
format i did 2 weeks ago

Davide

 

[Davide]

Another usefull (i hope) information. When i launch one of those programs i
get msiexec.exe using a lot of my cpu.
It is this process that performs the little installation process before
access or word starts.

Maybe is corrupted the Windows Installer? Is there a way to reinstall or
repair the windows installer?

Davide

 

[Peter Foldes]

This is a newsgroup for the Vista Operating System. This issue belongs to the Office newsgroup. You would be better to repost it there for a quicker and faster answer.

Meanwhile try the fix for this below

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

Office newsgroups

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.office.misc
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.office.setup
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.officeupdate

 

[James]

This is a newsgroup for the Vista Operating System. This issue belongs to the Office newsgroup. You would be better to repost it there for a quicker and faster answer.

Meanwhile try the fix for this below

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

Office newsgroups

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.office.misc
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.office.setup
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.officeupdate

Thanks for your tip, i've posted here cause office 2003 never gave me
those problems so i've supposed it was an issue related to vista....


Hope the link you've posted will solve the problem.

Bye
Davide

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Davide

Do you have any other version of Office programs installed on the system.
Anything like Works for Windows?

 

[Guest]

If you kept the office installation folders on your hard drive after
installing office 2003, open word, click on "help" on the tool bar across the
top, and select "detect and repair". that will fix it