Vista & Office 2007 Error: "not been installed for the current user"

[vernonedavis]

I've got a problem similar to others, except this is official releases
of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 Ultimate. When I attempt to execute
Word, the Office configuration runs, then the dreaded "Microsoft
Office Word has not been installed for the current user" pops up every
time I run Word and kills it immediately. I am the Administrator
account. It worked when I initially installed it back in Jan. 2007. So
there must be a rogue update that killed it. Anybody else seen this
recently? Vernon.

 

[vernonedavis]

I talked with Microsoft support. It was determined that upon
installation of Office that: a) the owner of the Office app's was
SYSTEM, not my administrator account, and b) the app's permissions
were read-only for my administrator account. This also affected the
shortcuts that are created in the All Programs section of
the Start Menu. I had to go into the Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
Office folder and modify permissions on each .EXE for the programs to
operate. Then I replaced all the existing shortcuts.

Something changed. They can't tell me what. At least it works. Vernon.