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Pat
I posted a question a while back because I always had to
accept the EULA each time any Office program was opened.
Since I have seen others with similar situations, I wanted
to post my resolution in able to help others with same
problem. Most suggested accepting with Administrator
rights.
I have only one user on system with full Administrator
rights. I tried to log in as Administrator and accept the
EULA. I still had to accept the EULA. I had sought an
article I had seen (and printed out) that had pointed in
the direction of a bit setting in the Registry. I had
misplaced the document and hoped someone else might be
able to help.
Resolution was to change permissions in the Registry under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / MICROSOFT / OFFICE to
allow full control with the userid. Although I had set
the permissions (for Everyone) to propagate downward it
never made it to the Office portion, specifically the
OFFICE / 10.0 / COMMON / GENERAL so that when EULA
accepted it would change the bit setting from '1' to '0'
on OEM REG_DWORD.
I also discovered that the Administrator Group did not
have permissions allowed on other products installed on my
WinXP (OEM) system. Somehow, somewhere things were
changed on the system. I am current on all critical
updates, so it's a mystery how the permissions were
changed in the first place.
What pointed me to this again was installing some other
products that acted the same as the Administrator group
hadn't installed the program. I'm glad I found the
solution, as I was planning on a rebuild as a last resort.
I hope this helps others.
Regards,
Pat
accept the EULA each time any Office program was opened.
Since I have seen others with similar situations, I wanted
to post my resolution in able to help others with same
problem. Most suggested accepting with Administrator
rights.
I have only one user on system with full Administrator
rights. I tried to log in as Administrator and accept the
EULA. I still had to accept the EULA. I had sought an
article I had seen (and printed out) that had pointed in
the direction of a bit setting in the Registry. I had
misplaced the document and hoped someone else might be
able to help.
Resolution was to change permissions in the Registry under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / MICROSOFT / OFFICE to
allow full control with the userid. Although I had set
the permissions (for Everyone) to propagate downward it
never made it to the Office portion, specifically the
OFFICE / 10.0 / COMMON / GENERAL so that when EULA
accepted it would change the bit setting from '1' to '0'
on OEM REG_DWORD.
I also discovered that the Administrator Group did not
have permissions allowed on other products installed on my
WinXP (OEM) system. Somehow, somewhere things were
changed on the system. I am current on all critical
updates, so it's a mystery how the permissions were
changed in the first place.
What pointed me to this again was installing some other
products that acted the same as the Administrator group
hadn't installed the program. I'm glad I found the
solution, as I was planning on a rebuild as a last resort.
I hope this helps others.
Regards,
Pat