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After upgrade can't run Office 2003

• Saturday, February 03, 2007 4:06 PMMark Brown

   
  

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  I purchased Vista Ultimate Upgrade.

  I upgraded from Windows XP Pro to Vista Ultimate and now I get an error when running any office 2003 program. The error is "Microsoft Office *** has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application." (where *** is the office application, like Word)

  If I turn off UAC, all office programs work fine. If I then turn UAC back on, no Office 2003 program will work.

  I uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2003 Pro (with UAC on and off). I ran a repair of Office 2003. I set folder permissions on the Microsoft Office folder to allow my login full rights. If I right-click on Winword.exe and set it to run as administrator, it works fine although UAC pops up and asks me if I want to continue (as it should). I added my login name to the registry keys for Office. After trying each of these items, I set them back to the previous state. Nothing seems to work, except turning off UAC and I would rather not leave this off.

  Any ideas as to what else to try?

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