How do I fix the error message 1406 when installing Office 2007?

[Cordeiro]

I'm having an issue installing Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 on my
laptop. When it's almost done installing, error message "1406" pops up. It
says something like I need to verify that I have sufficient permissions to
access the registry key..? And other such computer savvy talk I don't
understand. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Chocreaper]

Hi I'm not sure if this will help as I've just had this error message when I
tried to install Office 2000 on XP Home and it's connected to FrontPage
apparently and as I didn't ask my program to load that bit of it I just kept
hitting the ignore button and it loaded the rest of the office program fine.
Now I didn't touch regedit as not computer literate and terrified of going
anywhere near that but as I'm the only user and have full permission all I
could work out is that maybe this is a 'file' that is confused and by hitting
ignore multiple times until it loaded the program was only way round it. Even
if you're installing FrontPage just try hitting ignore and see what happens I
did and the programs work absolutely fine as have not got PowerPoint and
Excel on there as Word was already installed on it.

 

[JP-ZA]

The 1406 error seems to be a common problem, hundreds of posts on internet
but no solutions that work for me.

I am an administrator of PC, have full rights (or so I thought) to machine.
Pressing ignore on all the 1406 errors does allow install to continue but
every time rerun Word have to repeat all the process of ignoring.

Changing permissions on registry not helping - as it claims I already have
full permissions to the key being changed.

Switching off user access control no help.

Logging in safe mode can't do install.

Booting up with selective startup and not loading everything no help.

OK so that's all I think have tried!

Anybody have any ideas that can resolve this problem (also seems can't
install windows updates now 57E issue it might be related might not).

Thanks in advance for any help...