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Office Prof 2003 SP2:Not installed for the current user.

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skyeclad

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Last night I updated my Office Prof. 2003 to SP2. When I tried to run any of the applications this morning I was greeted with the "Microsoft XXXXX has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application."

I always run in the only user set-up, admin. I tried to unintall Office and reinstall. I tried to delete OPA11.DAT and BAK at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\OFFICE\DATA and then reinstall. No change, I always get the msg. I can only use the Office applications once after I delete the OPA11 files and then the next time I run the app I get the error msg again.

Is there a way I can fix this issue without activating the product multiple times. I don't want to invalidate it. Thanks.
 
I'm sure there is a way to work with the program. When you get the message does try sticking in the Office disc there and use the error message to install the program for the user. I have Office 2003 and I've run into the same problem when I did the updates.
 
When I click OK after getting the message it just shuts the program down and doesn't reinstall the app or anything. I tried repairing the installation, removing and reinstalling. Nothing works. My first guess is that this is a registry issue.

Reading some of MS tech bulletins, they say to set-up the program under the user that you are logged in as but that doesn't pertain here. Also they say to adjust the security properties of OPA11.DAT but those properties aren't available when I try to adjust them.

Any thoughts?
 
Ugh, I was hoping for something less traumatic. It looks like this is somewhat of common problem but I don't see a clear definitive solution that works for me.
 
I take nothing for granted and eagerly accept all help on this issue. Per your recommendations I made the registry changes that you suggested at the Office application level. No change. I even uninstalled and reinstalled just to see if this helped. Nothing, still the same error.

I then checked out the other solution. Well, I dont' exactly have the same problem. XP knows that Office is installed so Repair is an option available to me. I ran it and it did it's thing but...no change. The application runs but then presents the message that it's not installed for the current user. If I delete the OPA11.DAT and OPA11.BAK files I can get the app to run once but then it gives me the message after it has created these files again.

I guess I don't understand why this problem persists after an uninstall unless there are files or registry keys that are not uninstalled. I wonder if installing a previous version of Office would help. If so, maybe I can update the older version afterwards? Any thoughts?
 
Found something interesting on the MS Knowledge Base page. It says that it's important NOT TO DELETE opa11.bak. Don't know how that's going to help your problem, but might want to give that a try. Install it, go through the activation stuff. Then, once the error pops up, delete the opa11.dat but not the .bak.

Here's the KB article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;903275&spid=2488&sid=776

There are other references on the net to people experiencing Office problems when they inadvertently delete opa11.bak.
 
Thanks again. I see what you mean. Although I have deleted it and uninstalled the app, you would think that I would be able to re-install and not have this problem. Unfortunately this is not the case.

I even have reverted to Office 2000, then upgraded to 2003 and it still won't work. My guess is that there's a registry problem but I don't know where to look and I'm getting the impression that I am going to have to reinstall the OS. I hate doing that because it's too much effort to get everything back the way you want it with all the drivers and such.
 
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