Continually receive "Please wait while Microsoft Windows configure

[CharlieCoe]

I just installed Office Enterprise 2007 on a brand new laptop. It has not had
any version of Office on it before. Installation went fine -- No errors.
However now every time I open any of the Office applications I get the Please
wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office 2007 message. If I go to the
actual .exe files and run one of them it comes up without the message.
However if I go to the start menu or if I open a file in the application I
get the message every time.

I have uninstalled, run CCCleaner and re-installed. That didn't work

I was going to run Windows Install Clean Up but the text file said "** NOTE:
The Windows Installer Clean Up Utility should not be used to remove the 2007
Microsoft Office System installation information. ***" so I didn't try to
run it.

Any advice as to how to get rid of this message?

 

[DL]

Support for Enterprise is from MS direct (free) or from the organisation
that supplied it

 

[Melissa]

I've seen this before on the Quick Launch toolbar - I deleted the shortcut to
the program it was doing that with and then I didn't see that message. Try
deleting all office shortcuts and recreating them from the program
files\microsoft office\officexx folder.

 

[CharlieCoe]

Thanks for the replies. After reading Melissa's I went to delete the
shortcut on one of the applications to see what would happen. For some
reason I clicked on it first. I couldn't believe it. The application came up
without the message. After three days of fighting with this thing it went
away on its own.

Again thank you both. I was about to delete the links and/or start going
through my employer for help but (at least for the moment) PROBLEM SOLVED.