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How to fix "Wait for ...to configure..." at startup
I recently installed Office 2007 Pro as an upgrade to Office XP on my
Vista32 system. Like many other people I encountered the problem of each Office application displaying the "Please wait for Office to configure....." at startup. Like most people I just canceled this and everything ran fine. But I got tired of doing this and spent several hours searching for a fix. That's when I discovered just how wide-spread this problem is. I was not able to discover a fix that worked for me. So I decided to outsmart it. What I did was stop at the "Are you sure you want to cancel" dialog and then I started task manager. I saw there was a Setup.exe running. This had to be the routine that was issuing the message. So I searched my C: for it and found it several setup.exe's. But this location seemed like the right location: c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\office12\office setup controller Sure enough there is setup.exe in that directory. So I renamed it to setup.exe.office12 so I'd have it if I ever needed to go back and re-do/update my Office installation. Doing this renamed stopped the "Wait to...." dialogs from appearing. Now my Office 2007 apps start right up - except for Excel which shows the dreaded "stdole32.tlb" message. If anyone knows how to fix this I'd love to hear the solution. -- Birk Binnard http://www.birkbinnard.com |
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How to fix "Wait for ...to configure..." at startup
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I Don't think you did right thing by renaming that file. Rename it back to whatever it was. Ofice 12 has a new feature, that is, it repairs itself as Ofice setup files will always be there. To fix your issue start run and just type this 1 at a time reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1 reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1 reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Option s /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1 reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\PowerPoint\Opt ions /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1. The stdole32.tlb problem with XL will still b there. to fix that, make XL unavailable and available. Sri "Birk Binnard" wrote in message ... I recently installed Office 2007 Pro as an upgrade to Office XP on my Vista32 system. Like many other people I encountered the problem of each Office application displaying the "Please wait for Office to configure....." at startup. Like most people I just canceled this and everything ran fine. But I got tired of doing this and spent several hours searching for a fix. That's when I discovered just how wide-spread this problem is. I was not able to discover a fix that worked for me. So I decided to outsmart it. What I did was stop at the "Are you sure you want to cancel" dialog and then I started task manager. I saw there was a Setup.exe running. This had to be the routine that was issuing the message. So I searched my C: for it and found it several setup.exe's. But this location seemed like the right location: c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\office12\office setup controller Sure enough there is setup.exe in that directory. So I renamed it to setup.exe.office12 so I'd have it if I ever needed to go back and re-do/update my Office installation. Doing this renamed stopped the "Wait to...." dialogs from appearing. Now my Office 2007 apps start right up - except for Excel which shows the dreaded "stdole32.tlb" message. If anyone knows how to fix this I'd love to hear the solution. -- Birk Binnard http://www.birkbinnard.com |
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How to fix "Wait for ...to configure..." at startup
Mine just makes a new setup.exe file.
"Birk Binnard" wrote in message ... I recently installed Office 2007 Pro as an upgrade to Office XP on my Vista32 system. Like many other people I encountered the problem of each Office application displaying the "Please wait for Office to configure....." at startup. Like most people I just canceled this and everything ran fine. But I got tired of doing this and spent several hours searching for a fix. That's when I discovered just how wide-spread this problem is. I was not able to discover a fix that worked for me. So I decided to outsmart it. What I did was stop at the "Are you sure you want to cancel" dialog and then I started task manager. I saw there was a Setup.exe running. This had to be the routine that was issuing the message. So I searched my C: for it and found it several setup.exe's. But this location seemed like the right location: c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\office12\office setup controller Sure enough there is setup.exe in that directory. So I renamed it to setup.exe.office12 so I'd have it if I ever needed to go back and re-do/update my Office installation. Doing this renamed stopped the "Wait to...." dialogs from appearing. Now my Office 2007 apps start right up - except for Excel which shows the dreaded "stdole32.tlb" message. If anyone knows how to fix this I'd love to hear the solution. -- Birk Binnard http://www.birkbinnard.com |
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How to fix "Wait for ...to configure..." at startup
Hi
I Don't think you did right thing by renaming that file. Rename it back to whatever it was. Ofice 12 has a new feature, that is, it repairs itself as Ofice setup files will always be there. To fix your issue start run and just type this 1 at a time reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1 reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1 reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Option s /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1 reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\PowerPoint\Opt ions /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1. The stdole32.tlb problem with XL will still b there. to fix that, make XL unavailable and available. Sri "Birk Binnard" wrote in message ... I recently installed Office 2007 Pro as an upgrade to Office XP on my Vista32 system. Like many other people I encountered the problem of each Office application displaying the "Please wait for Office to configure....." at startup. Like most people I just canceled this and everything ran fine. But I got tired of doing this and spent several hours searching for a fix. That's when I discovered just how wide-spread this problem is. I was not able to discover a fix that worked for me. So I decided to outsmart it. What I did was stop at the "Are you sure you want to cancel" dialog and then I started task manager. I saw there was a Setup.exe running. This had to be the routine that was issuing the message. So I searched my C: for it and found it several setup.exe's. But this location seemed like the right location: c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\office12\office setup controller Sure enough there is setup.exe in that directory. So I renamed it to setup.exe.office12 so I'd have it if I ever needed to go back and re-do/update my Office installation. Doing this renamed stopped the "Wait to...." dialogs from appearing. Now my Office 2007 apps start right up - except for Excel which shows the dreaded "stdole32.tlb" message. If anyone knows how to fix this I'd love to hear the solution. -- Birk Binnard http://www.birkbinnard.com |
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How to fix "Wait for ...to configure..." at startup
Have the same problem.
Actioned the reg changes as you said but still have the same problem. do you have any other advice? waiting in antisipation Chrissie "Srikanth" wrote: Hi I Don't think you did right thing by renaming that file. Rename it back to whatever it was. Ofice 12 has a new feature, that is, it repairs itself as Ofice setup files will always be there. To fix your issue start run and just type this 1 at a time reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1 reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1 reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Option s /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1 reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\PowerPoint\Opt ions /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1. The stdole32.tlb problem with XL will still b there. to fix that, make XL unavailable and available. Sri "Birk Binnard" wrote in message ... I recently installed Office 2007 Pro as an upgrade to Office XP on my Vista32 system. Like many other people I encountered the problem of each Office application displaying the "Please wait for Office to configure....." at startup. Like most people I just canceled this and everything ran fine. But I got tired of doing this and spent several hours searching for a fix. That's when I discovered just how wide-spread this problem is. I was not able to discover a fix that worked for me. So I decided to outsmart it. What I did was stop at the "Are you sure you want to cancel" dialog and then I started task manager. I saw there was a Setup.exe running. This had to be the routine that was issuing the message. So I searched my C: for it and found it several setup.exe's. But this location seemed like the right location: c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\office12\office setup controller Sure enough there is setup.exe in that directory. So I renamed it to setup.exe.office12 so I'd have it if I ever needed to go back and re-do/update my Office installation. Doing this renamed stopped the "Wait to...." dialogs from appearing. Now my Office 2007 apps start right up - except for Excel which shows the dreaded "stdole32.tlb" message. If anyone knows how to fix this I'd love to hear the solution. -- Birk Binnard http://www.birkbinnard.com |
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