How to fix "Wait for ...to configure..." at startup

[Birk Binnard]

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.

 

[Srikanth]

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\Options /v NoReReg /t
REG_DWORD /d 1
reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\PowerPoint\Options /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

 

[Robert]

Mine just makes a new setup.exe file.

 

[Srikanth]

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\Options /v NoReReg /t
REG_DWORD /d 1
reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\PowerPoint\Options /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

 

[Chrissie]

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

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\Options /v NoReReg /t
REG_DWORD /d 1
reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\PowerPoint\Options /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