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Eric
Recently for no apparent reason, all my Office products stopped working.
When I attempt to open them, I get the message "[Application] is not
installed for current user". I use XP SP2 and Office 2003 Student & Teacher
edition. This is a non-networked home computer, and the only account is the
original administrator account. The problem occurred out of the blue, my
computer is firewalled and has virus protection, and the only changes made
are routine updates from Microsoft. I have tried several fixes, including
System Restore (routinely fails, but that's another issue), as well as
removing Office, deleting all known registry keys and out of the way files
(including opa11.bak/opa11.dat in Docs&Settings/all users/application
data/microsoft/office/data) and registry keys, and then reinstalling Office.
Nothing has worked.
It is obvious from other posts, on this site and elsewhere on the web, that
this is a chronic problem that affects multiple versions of Office, but I
have yet to see any useful advice. Pretty much every response either asks
stupid questions but gives no advice, or offer obvious and unhelpful advice,
or a crappy inconvenient workaround like "just create a new account". This
is especially true of responses by MS representatives, who apparently don't
have a clue how to actually fix this problem. There are dozens of threads
like mine, and none have satisfactory resolutions. I have even seen
instances where MS reps insulted the original poster or blatantly accused him
or her of incompetence. I have also Googled this issue, and the only
promising lead I got, which alluded to altering the registry, led me to a
site where the content was removed, "presumably by Microsoft". Please,
someone who knows what they're doing, help me and the zillions of other
frustrated MS customers. Or better yet, hey Microsoft, how about posting a
fix to this problem or creating a patch to fix it? Because it's pretty
obvious the problem is on YOUR end, caused by your obnoxiously unreliable
software, and not because I sleepwalked and accidentally reinstalled Office
with restricted access.
When I attempt to open them, I get the message "[Application] is not
installed for current user". I use XP SP2 and Office 2003 Student & Teacher
edition. This is a non-networked home computer, and the only account is the
original administrator account. The problem occurred out of the blue, my
computer is firewalled and has virus protection, and the only changes made
are routine updates from Microsoft. I have tried several fixes, including
System Restore (routinely fails, but that's another issue), as well as
removing Office, deleting all known registry keys and out of the way files
(including opa11.bak/opa11.dat in Docs&Settings/all users/application
data/microsoft/office/data) and registry keys, and then reinstalling Office.
Nothing has worked.
It is obvious from other posts, on this site and elsewhere on the web, that
this is a chronic problem that affects multiple versions of Office, but I
have yet to see any useful advice. Pretty much every response either asks
stupid questions but gives no advice, or offer obvious and unhelpful advice,
or a crappy inconvenient workaround like "just create a new account". This
is especially true of responses by MS representatives, who apparently don't
have a clue how to actually fix this problem. There are dozens of threads
like mine, and none have satisfactory resolutions. I have even seen
instances where MS reps insulted the original poster or blatantly accused him
or her of incompetence. I have also Googled this issue, and the only
promising lead I got, which alluded to altering the registry, led me to a
site where the content was removed, "presumably by Microsoft". Please,
someone who knows what they're doing, help me and the zillions of other
frustrated MS customers. Or better yet, hey Microsoft, how about posting a
fix to this problem or creating a patch to fix it? Because it's pretty
obvious the problem is on YOUR end, caused by your obnoxiously unreliable
software, and not because I sleepwalked and accidentally reinstalled Office
with restricted access.