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