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Jeff Moden

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August 5, 2009 at 3:57 pm

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Man, I'm starting to hate Office 2007. My operating system is XP Pro sp2. Everytime I reboot and then go to use Office, it goes through the first time initialization procedure again. Does anyone know of a cure that I could apply for that huge annoyance? Oh, yeah... I'm logging in with Windows Admin privs on my local box.
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

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RBarryYoung SSC Guru Points: 143329 More actions · Answer 1

Dang, someone told me last year what causes that and I can't remember ... 🙁

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 2

RBarryYoung (8/5/2009)
Dang, someone told me last year what causes that and I can't remember ... 🙁

Heh... obviously you can't remember who that someone is either. 😛 If you remember, I sure could use the leg up. Thanks, Barry.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 3

Yowch! Thought I'd give a little feedback on this nasty little problem. I found the cause... I'm one of those folks that does things like reject cookies and I do a regular "delete" under "Tools, Internet Options" in Windows. The delete I do is the cause. Now, I have to find the reason as in which one of those things that I delete on a regular basis is the cause of this.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 4

Heh... crud. False alarm. It was a coincidence... I just did the same delete again and Word still came up properly. Dang...

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 5

I was going to say cookies is a really bad design.

My guess is that something is not getting written to the registry. Usually that init procedure is some "one time" thing in the registry. I'd look for something here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314866

paul.knibbs SSCoach Points: 15320 More actions · Answer 6

Could it be related to this?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314866

(That only applies to the EULA acceptance part, admittedly, but thought I'd throw it out there as a possibility...).

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 7

I'll take a look at that. Thanks guys.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

paul.knibbs SSCoach Points: 15320 More actions · Answer 8

How the heck did it happen that the link I posted is the same as Steve's? The one I *meant* to post is this one:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884202

No idea what happened there!

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 9

No problem... thanks for taking the time to repost. It's another avenue I can check. Thanks.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

crookj SSChampion Points: 14075 More actions · Answer 10

Jeff,

3 additional thoughts.

1) By chance - is the workstation frozen by utilizing something like deep freeze? If so, that would do it. Unfreeze it and start it up then refreeze it again.

2) open up the customization window and go to the resources tab. From there, run the MS Office Diagnostics tool to see if that corrects the problem.

3) Try creating another windows user account and run through the sequence again. It should run the initial sequence once for each account. See if the new account is having the same problem.

Good luck. I will continue to think about this one.

Joe

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 11

Thanks for the help, Joe. I appreciate the time.

The answers would be "no, nothing like that going on" to 1, "did both before and yes, same problem" to 3, and "thanks, I'll definitely try that" to 2.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 12

Jeff Moden (8/12/2009)
Thanks for the help, Joe. I appreciate the time.
The answers would be "no, nothing like that going on" to 1, "did both before and yes, same problem" to 3, and "thanks, I'll definitely try that" to 2.

So, Jeff, did you figure this one out?

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004339 More actions · Answer 13

No, not yet. Still have too many fires with sticks in them. :hehe:

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

crookj SSChampion Points: 14075 More actions · Answer 14

Another thing I came across is...

Make sure that you have a licensed software version and that it has been activated.

Still looking.....

Joe