Word Not Installed for Current User

[justwright]

Here's the deal.

1. Office 2007 was installed and working fine
2. I used the Microsoft Cleanup Utility to remove a stubborn non-Office App.
3. All Office 2007 apps now claim they have "Not Been Installed for the Current User"
4. I can work around this by elevating to Admin ("Run as Administrator" - obviously this is undesireable for security reasons)

I have tried repairing/uninstalling automatically & manually (i.e. deleting files and registry settings), altering permissions on setting files and registry nodes but nothing has worked.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Other issues of interest - we use "Roaming Profiles" so some "AppData" is stored on the server and may be exacerbating this problem.

 

[pcameron]

Hi,
I'm just wondering if you ever got this sorted out. I have the same issue, though it applies to the whole office suite.
Thanks

 

[johngalt]

His applied to the whole office suite as well -

All Office 2007 apps now claim

have you tried just re-installing Office?

 

[pcameron]

Yes, i have tried repairing Office. This failed.
I then uninstalled office and reinstalled I still get the error "Not installed for the current user."
If I turn off the user security it works, or if I run it as administrator it works.
But not otherwise.
Any ideas?
Paul

 

[justwright]

I never had any luck...ended up repaving the machine.

 

[johngalt]

That Cleanup Utility - it wasn't Download details: User Profile Hive Cleanup Service was it?

 

[johngalt]

See this: Post #5 in Word only starts in Safe Mode - normal.dot not the problem

 

[pcameron]

That Cleanup Utility - it wasn't Download details: User Profile Hive Cleanup Service was it?

nope.
it was Adobe CS3Cleaner - however this requires installation of windows install cleanup.
I spent part of yesterday uninstalling windows - trying to remove all office items in the registry and then reinstalling office. Same response

 

[pcameron]

Hi all,
just continuing the saga.
I've tried creating a new user and and attempting to open office applications in the new users space - same error.

 

[pcameron]

Alittle piece more to the puzze.
THe Event viewer quotes the following error fromt he SOurce WMI
"A provider PffProv12, has been registered in the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) namespace Root\MSAPPS12 to use the local system account. This account is priveledged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not correctly impersonate user requests."

Is this the same as - "not installed for the current user'?

The previous error notes the "Detection of product '{90120000-0030-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}', feature 'WORDFiles' failed during request for component '{0638C49D-BB8B-4CD1-B191-051E8F325736}'"

Any help anyone/
Paul

 

[johngalt]

What happened when you tried the instructions in my second link?

 

[pcameron]

What happened when you tried the instructions in my second link?

Hi
Thaks for your reply.

I used the Revo Uninstaller and removed Office. I then reinstalled office (Enterprise) and it still gives the same error.
Paul

 

[johngalt]

and you removed all the registry keys it found as well? Weird.

 

[pcameron]

and you removed all the registry keys it found as well? Weird.

Yep - removed all the registry keys it mentioned.

Somehow I think it's to do with UAC, but I can't work out how or what.
If I run Winword from the instal directory as run as administrator it works. If I turn off UAC it works.
Otherwise

 

[VistaLava]

After trying the solutions set out by various sources on the net i have stumbled upon a solution that worked for me. First I deleted C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\OFFICE\DATA\opa12.dat then i resupplied my activation details and now office 2007 is all working.
Be warned this seems to be all caused by a recent microsoft update for office, thank you microsoft.

 

[pcameron]

Hi,
Yes I tried that as well. I finally gave up and reinstalled Vista. Great fun and a waste of time and energy. i still am catching up with programs to reinstall etc.

Interesting that you think it came from a Word update. My system started to do this after having to clear and reinstalling Adobe CS3

regards

 

[kateeus]

After trying the solutions set out by various sources on the net i have stumbled upon a solution that worked for me. First I deleted C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\OFFICE\DATA\opa12.dat then i resupplied my activation details and now office 2007 is all working.
Be warned this seems to be all caused by a recent microsoft update for office, thank you microsoft.

I tried many solutions, but after trying this everything is working again :D

Thanks for the help peeps

 

[Maxayy]

ahh sorry for digging up this old thread guys for a really noob question (I'm seriously Sorry) but how do you resupply your activation details where?? I'm desperate to make Office work but I dont want to touch the Registry.. Stupid Office Update ruined everything...