Please wait while windows configures Microsoft office professional edition 2003
Does your computer crib “Please wait while windows configures Microsoft office professional edition 2003″ whenever you open word or excel or any other microsoft office product??
Does it ask for SKU111.cab??
Well! My laptop was cribbing..
Here is a neat way to fix it even WITHOUT A CD
1. Click on start==>run==>type
excel /s
2. Once Excel is up in safe mode with the error message in front, press ctrl+Alt+Delete keys on your keyboard to bring the task manager up.
3. Click on the processes tab==>look for msiexec.exe (only the one next to your user name), click on it and end the process.
4. Excel should be running without an error message now==>close Excel in safe mode==>reopen it one more time in safe mode to check if it in opening with no error message.
5. Close Excel /s and open Excel normally, it should work fine.
After you do this, all your microsoft office softwares will work fine..
very blah. u live upto ur expectations even in tech post
done
Sundar,
I am having the same problem and your instuctions did not yield to solution.
Thanks,
Your solution worked perfectly. Thank you.
It did not work, sorry. Still that message when I open Word 2007
I found the simple solution:
>Control Panel
>Add or remove Programs
>select for office 2007
>choose “change”
>select: add or remove functions
>continue
PROBLEM SOLVED
I run a Computer Repair Shop and see this problem all the time. Thanks at least how much our govrnment gave away last week!
None of the myriad suggestions (including those from Microsoft) worked. This one works 100% Hallelujah!
The solution is to re-register Excel / Word etc. with Windows
You can use this method to cause Excel to rewrite all of its configuration data in the registry. This effectively sets Excel back to the “factory defaults”. From the Windows Start menu, choose Run, and enter:
Excel.exe /UnregServer
As before, you may have to use the full file name rather than just Excel.exe. After you have done this, repeat it but change /UnregServer to /RegServer. When you issue these commands, Excel will start, manipulate its configuration data in the system registry, and then close. If you receive a Success message on the /RegServer, try to start normally. If Excel starts properly, that means there was an invalid entry in the registry. No further action is required.
Thanks Mick, this one worked for me after I tried about 5 other so-called solutions. Doing the Unreg and Reg with Excel.exe seemed to fix the issue with all of the office programs not just excel. Thanks again.
Thank you, this worked!.
For me, I only had to do the following…
1. Click on start==>run==>type
excel /s
2. Once Excel is up in safe mode with the error message in front, press ctrl+Alt+Delete keys on your keyboard to bring the task manager up.
Once I ran excel in safe mode I didn’t get the error mesage… restarted Excel/Word etc and did not receive the error again.
Thank you!!
Try checking your event log. With this symptom, I also got a warning event in the Application log about a missing registry value called “UserData”. If this is the cause of your pain, the event log message will tell you what registry value to create. Just go to that registry key (ex. HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word or HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel or HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook) and create a DWORD value called “UserData” with a value of 1.
tQ bro..it’s work…
The ONLY solution that worked for me out of about 12 to 15 solutions suggested was Jason Terando’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WELL DONE Jason Terando!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was great. Thank you!
Finally a real professional!!!!
If you have this problem, trust that Jason’s advice will not harm your computer. It will work.
Here are lame instructions.
Start Menu
Run
Type”regedit”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Software
Microsoft
Office
11.0
Right Click Excel or Word or Outlook
New
DWORD Value
Type”userdata”
Right Click the newly created “userdata” entry
Modify
Type “1″
OK
Close the Registry Editor
Open Word or Excel etc.
WM
The original posted fix worked for me. Thanks!
worked for me! great. thanks
It worked perfectly. Thank you very much.
Yay, Mick Blu’s solution (see comment #8, posted on December 23rd, 2008 at 5:03 am) worked for me! Thanks so much, Mick! Sundar’s original suggestion unfortunately did not work for me.
Thanks Mate, this worked !! Thanks for saving from the pain to get rid of those annoying messages.
Perfect work you have done, this web site is really cool with wonderful information.
worked great. thanks Sundar.
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I expereined exactly the same problem couple of years ago and I couldn’t find a solution to it. I finally got rid of this issue by simply upgrading to Microsoft Office 2007. But this is a great article that can help someone.
Hi to all,
I tried all these things but my problem still remains i am getting the ” windows configuring the ms-excel please wait….” message and it is taking 2 min time to open the document for every time.
Please suggest me if any one have the sol.
I was opened the excel in safemode from the run tab,but i never see any error message it was opened directly with out error.
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