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Excel Reinstalling on ever start up? 1

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guymason

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Apr 25, 2001
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Excel 2000 reinstalls itself when you first use it after ever restart?

Any ideas

Guy Harris
 
What OS are you using? Could it be that Office was installed when a different account was logged on and so although the machine side is available, the user side appears to be missing so that it is prompting you for the install CD? How about just reinstalling while logged on as yourself?
 
Do you have a previous version of Excel installed as well? This was happening to me when I had both Excel 97 and 2000 installed at the same time. I finally uninstalled 97 when I felt comfortable with 2000, and it hasn't happened since.

danhauer
 
I have only had this happen with Word, from the Office shortcut bar where is was pointing to c:\MSOFFICEPRO\PFiles\MSOFFICE\Office\winword.exe instead of c:\program files\MSOFFICE\OFFICE\winword.exe
(I have the whole cd copied to the users hard drives)
Do you have the same? is there another location where your excel.exe is stored?
 
Thanks, but no, still tries to install. Infact this is for all Office products. And if you open up a document in Widows Explorer it returns an error saying cant find path, but the document can be opened in the application?

Guy
 
When you right click the file from explorer and check the properties, what is the path to the .exe?
 
Think this may help?
Action: Disable Office Tune up for all versions of windows
This setting is used to disable the Office tune up feature.

Open your registry and find the key below.

Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called 'Disabled' and edit the value according to the settings below.

Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.

Settings
Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\TuneUp]
Value Name: Disabled
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = default, 1 = disabled)





 
yup, nice one Chrmc. Sorted

Thanks
Guy
 
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