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finisterre · Guest

Access and Powerpoint have suddenly stopped working altogether. Both will
open and look fine for 1 or 2 seconds, then this message pops up:

Microsoft Access has not been installed for the current user. Please run
setup to install the application.

Then you click 'OK' and the program closes instantly.

Here's what I've tried, and some further info:

- Word and Excel and Publisher don't have the problem. (so my Subject line
is not accurate, actually: it's not *all* of Office)

- I tried reinstalling Office and that didn't make any difference.

- I have *never* had more than one user account, or done anything with
administrator privileges or anything like that. This is my own home computer;
I'm the only one who uses it; it's not on a network. I've installed lots of
software on it and never dealt with administrator rights.

- XP home, sp1, Office 2000.

- I haven't made any changes that overtly involve Office or the OS, with the
following exceptions. I was instructed to do these by Compaq Tech Support as
a way to solve another problem (namely, hellish assaults of popups about
"Windows Installer - Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft XP
Professional"). None of these things solved the problem, incidentally
(thanks, overseas outsourced Compaq tech support people earning 2 cents per
day!).

I ran the following things at Start / Run...
msiexec /unregister
msiexec / regserver
regsvr32 msi.dll
SFC /SCANNOW

and installed the Office Resource Kit (only the Language Tools part), ran
it, and set it to English.

In retrospect those commands all look kinda scary. I can't undo them because
System Restore no longer works. (the 'Installer...' popups problem was
finally solved by reinstalling Office.)

Thanks much

Richard

P.S. Hope it's OK to cross-post. I know that's normally frowned upon but (1)
I can't find any descriptions of the specific topics that each newsgroup here
is supposed to cover and (2) the site provides a special window for this very
purpose :-)

Dave Patrick · Guest

Probably ask them here.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.office.setup&lang=en&cr=US

follow-up set to microsoft.public.office.setup

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"finisterre" wrote:
| Access and Powerpoint have suddenly stopped working altogether. Both will
| open and look fine for 1 or 2 seconds, then this message pops up:
|
| Microsoft Access has not been installed for the current user. Please run
| setup to install the application.
|
| Then you click 'OK' and the program closes instantly.
|
| Here's what I've tried, and some further info:
|
| - Word and Excel and Publisher don't have the problem. (so my Subject line
| is not accurate, actually: it's not *all* of Office)
|
| - I tried reinstalling Office and that didn't make any difference.
|
| - I have *never* had more than one user account, or done anything with
| administrator privileges or anything like that. This is my own home
computer;
| I'm the only one who uses it; it's not on a network. I've installed lots
of
| software on it and never dealt with administrator rights.
|
| - XP home, sp1, Office 2000.
|
| - I haven't made any changes that overtly involve Office or the OS, with
the
| following exceptions. I was instructed to do these by Compaq Tech Support
as
| a way to solve another problem (namely, hellish assaults of popups about
| "Windows Installer - Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft XP
| Professional"). None of these things solved the problem, incidentally
| (thanks, overseas outsourced Compaq tech support people earning 2 cents
per
| day!).
|
| I ran the following things at Start / Run...
| msiexec /unregister
| msiexec / regserver
| regsvr32 msi.dll
| SFC /SCANNOW
|
| and installed the Office Resource Kit (only the Language Tools part), ran
| it, and set it to English.
|
| In retrospect those commands all look kinda scary. I can't undo them
because
| System Restore no longer works. (the 'Installer...' popups problem was
| finally solved by reinstalling Office.)
|
| Thanks much
|
| Richard
|
| P.S. Hope it's OK to cross-post. I know that's normally frowned upon but
(1)
| I can't find any descriptions of the specific topics that each newsgroup
here
| is supposed to cover and (2) the site provides a special window for this
very
| purpose :-)

Blue · Guest

I'm not answering your inquiry, only adding on as I want to know if you set
up a user account, a limited user account, do you have to install micro soft
officer in that account? I'm new to two or more accounts. Microsoft office
appears in the administrative account but not in the user account

"finisterre" wrote:

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