This is getting to be a nightmare for me.
First it only happened when starting outlook.
Now it's happening at the start of every Office 2007 application.
And this morning, FOR EVERY SINGLE individual e-mail downloaded, I
cycle though "updating configuration" dialog.
Freakin A.
Fixed this as described by me in another posting:
Has this problem with or without UAC enabled, under both standard user
and admin account. However, you are right about it being a registry
access problem.
Event log was reporting specific key(s) that could not be found, thus
the cycling install.
When accessing via regedit, the key in question had a permissions
problem. Accessing the key threw an access/permissions violation,
even when running regedit with admin permissions.
Attempting to change ownership of key(s) in question "appeared" not to
work, regedit would throw a no permissions error but upon re-accessing
the keys involved system permissions were enabled on the key, and I
was then able to add additional permission needed.
For others that go through this, it is important that you get subkeys
as well.
A lot of work (at least in running it down) but it's working - there
were 4 keys involved in my case. However, I'm very concerned because
a random checking of keys in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT seem to show a good
number of keys have this permissions problem.
This was a XP-Pro to Vista Ultimate upgrade. Vista has been good to me
but the Office 2007 install was a nightmare. For the record Office
Diagnostic was of no help. I can only assume validation occurs in
that tool, I'm wondering if it runs under a different permissions
environment than the user who invokes it? Not a good idea. Seems
likely I have a hosed Vista installation and/or something is scary
wrong with my registry permissions, but for the moment we are running.
Also note, this fixed the Outlook problem, after this the other Office
apps were still doing the "configuration" thing, but after
uninstalling and re-installing them individually, that went away as
well. I might have casued some problem with them my earlier attempts
to fix outlook, don't know.