2003 install office preparing

That way you won't get an application that you don't want! Likewise, on the more common ones like Word, Excel etc. The installer thingo often boots up when you may be trying to use a feature that was not installed under "typical".

Tried reinstalling it, seems to be doing ok now. Had the pop up once and that was it. As Seen On. Welcome to Tech Support Guy! Latest posts. What's for Dinner?

Random Discussion. Please help 2 Viewers Latest: Cookiegal 17 minutes ago. CPU or motherboard causes ping ms to spike under load. Latest: lunarlander 40 minutes ago. Can't create or sign into an Office account Latest: jobear 46 minutes ago. Now this is getting rather tiresome, does anyone know how to fix it? My first toughts were with it having frontpage on, therefore 2 versions of office.

But even after ive put FP on its still the same. Re: Office - Preparing to install did you delete the installation files as part of the set up? Re: Office - Preparing to install There used to be a bunch of registry keys you could import with office that fixed this behaviour but I haven't seen them for We have the same problem but I'm living with it for now and we haven't deleted the local installation files so it's not that.

Are you user profiles roaming or madatory if mandatory then it's probably because office setup cannot write and store a copy of these values. Re: Office - Preparing to install I have the same problem, are you saying i'll have to uninstall and re-install all office installations? Or is there an easier way to fix this? Re: Office - Preparing to install Rebuild the admin install so that it tells machines not to delete the installing files.

You can then publish this install using transform files to install only what you want. Depending upon your partner level, you have the following three options. Please contact the main-stream support team of Word in Microsoft. Remove the Office application and install again. This is the best and easiest way to fix this problem. The content you requested has been removed.

Ask a question. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by Gadrin Unsolved. Gadrin 2 Bronze. Seems to be a common problem nowadays as I've Googled it and come up with all sorts of stuff. Anyone find out a way to not have office "Prepare to Install" before I open an office app for the first time that day?

Interim: I've copied the CDs to my hard-disk and pointed it at them so it won't prompt for the CD each time. I have Admin privs and installed it with my account. Message from the Event Viewer All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic.

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