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Wednesday
Feb162011

Office - fixing the repairing problem when opening Word or Access

I spend the evening hunting down why every time I run Office 2010 in my demo machine, it would first launch configuration...  Always configuring...

After a few attempts at reinstalling that doesn't seem to lead anywhere, I decided to read the registry and see if there's some residue key that's causing problems.

While I didn't find the key, I did find a few very suspicious looking keys that it was requesting, right before launching into the Configuration Wizard (again).

 

NoRereg DWORD

For Word, Excel, PowerPoint... and most of Office:

Create a DWORD NoRereg=1

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word\Options
NoRereg=1

 

NoRepairNeeded KEY

For Access:

Create a KEY NoRepairNeeded.  I don't seem to need to add any default values or any other values in the key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Access\NoRepairNeeded

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