

In the Activation wizard, click I want to activate the software over the Internet, and then follow the prompts. Read and accept the Microsoft Software License Terms, and then click Continue.įollow the prompts and after Office installs, click Close. If you need help, see Find your product key for Office 2010. If the setup wizard doesn’t start automatically, navigate to the disc drive and click SETUP.EXE.

Insert the Office 2010 disc into the drive. To do a custom install or uninstall for specific apps, see the section below Install or remove individual Office programs or components. Restarted and then reinstalled Visio.Note: For more information about the 64-bit version, see Choose the 64-bit or 32-bit version of Office. Reinstalled Adobe first and got updates (had to reset system clock to to get updates!?) Solution - uninstalled both visio and adobe. Annoying as heck because it would run even if I had one instance running already and opened another with a different drawing!Īfter days looking for an answer I decided it had something to do with the Adobe add-ins running on Visio. Not long after I noticed the issue with configuration running every time Visio (and only Visio) started. I installed it and kept 2007 since 2013 did not include Visio and I use it a lot.įew days later I needed to have Acrobat pro and so I installed my old copy of Adobe CS3. I then had the opportunity to install office 2013 pro (for $10 thorough job). I installed office 2007 pro and visio 2007 pro on a new 64 bit windows 7 system. I know this is an old post but I had the configuration issue for days and did not find an answer that worked for me so I would like to offer my experience in case there is someone like me looking for an answer. Too many interactions between Office and Windows registry components. Note: The real answer is to rebuild the box and reinstall the OS too. Giving non-admin users read access to these keys, sub-keys and values and ensuring that they are owned by an Administrator fixed the problem. In the cases listed, it seems to be to do with the permissions on the various file type keys e.g. Messages 10 gave specifics about which registry keys were causing the problem. Looking into the Event Viewer after a failed startup gave me a list of events for the MsiInstaller. In my case, I suspect some registry permissions were not left in a state that Office 2010 was expecting (e.g. The thread that pointed to contains the full story.

Others have solved the problem by completely removing previous versions of Office using the Office clean up process and reinstalling. The issue I had seems to be registry related. There are a number of other forums with similar problems.
