Office XP Problem

[Jeff Stanton]

I recently had to reinstall XP Home. I then reinstalled Office XP Small
Business, and have been having a problem.
Every time I open a component of Office, such as Word or Excel, I get a
message box titled "Installing components for Microsoft Excel (or Word)".
The box then shows a progress bar and the message "installing a Microsoft
Excel Feature". This happens EVERY time I open one of the Office
components. Does anyone have an explanation for this?

Jeff

[Sharon F]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:12:40 -0500, Jeff Stanton wrote:

> I recently had to reinstall XP Home. I then reinstalled Office XP Small
> Business, and have been having a problem.
> Every time I open a component of Office, such as Word or Excel, I get a
> message box titled "Installing components for Microsoft Excel (or Word)".
> The box then shows a progress bar and the message "installing a Microsoft
> Excel Feature". This happens EVERY time I open one of the Office
> components. Does anyone have an explanation for this?
>
> Jeff

How did you run the install? If you select Custom, you find that many items
are marked as "run on first use." I suspect that these are the settings
"Typical" install uses. You may want to run Office setup again and select
"Run from hard disk."

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Sharon F
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User