Windows Installer Configuration EVERY TIME!!!

[negleger]

Ok, so I am sure this sounds pretty familiar. Every time I open an office
application, or an office document, I get a pop up of the windows installer
and it starts running some mystery configuration process. I have tried
uninstalling/reinstalling. I have tried repairing the registry permissions.
I have ripped all office traces out by force and done a clean install. I
have rebuilt the registry, modified it, added some conditional entries, but
to no avail. I have done it in the user account, and the built in
administrator account. I have done both custom and full installs. I have
googled, forumed, knowledge-based, and done every other form of research you
can imagine. I have found several "solutions" but none of them has worked.
I am at an absolute loss for any possible cause for this problem, let alone
how to fix it.

I'm running Office 2007, on a Dell Inspiron 1440 running Vista (32 bit) SP2.

Please help!

 

[Susan Ramlet]

Are you running multiple Office versions on this system, or older versions
of Office-family applications?

 

[negleger]

no, there are no other traces of any other versions of office. This is a new
computer that has only ever had 2007 installed. the only other trace of some
would the the compatibility patch, but i have since uninstalled and tried
everything in the aforementioned paragraph without this patch.

 

[negleger]

also, i inadvertently said that your post answered my question/solved my
problem. please disregard anything that says the issue has been fixed, it
has not, at least not yet.

 

[Susan Ramlet]

Did you have the Office 2007 Trial installed before you purchased a license?

If so, you might try to uninstall Office AND the activation assistant with
it, then re-install Office 2007.