?? Why am I Asked to Install Office Update ??

Hi everyone,

This has been annoying me for several months now.

I have a Vista 64 machine. Office 2007 is *NOT* installed on this machine
yet Microsoft Update constantly tells me I have two available updates:

2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Update for the Microsoft 2007 Office System (KB946691)

Why am I constantly prodded to install updates for products I do not have
installed?

Do you have the trial version? Was Office ever installed? Any of the
components?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



"Tom Baxter" <> wrote in message
news:1C7DB592-C228-415C-9D8C-...
> Hi everyone,
>
> This has been annoying me for several months now.
>
> I have a Vista 64 machine. Office 2007 is *NOT* installed on this machine
> yet Microsoft Update constantly tells me I have two available updates:
>
> 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1)
> Update for the Microsoft 2007 Office System (KB946691)
>
> Why am I constantly prodded to install updates for products I do not have
> installed?
>

"JoAnn Paules" <> wrote in message
news:B0172AFA-BD4E-47DC-B35A-...
> Do you have the trial version? Was Office ever installed? Any of the
> components?

No, nothing. No trial version. It was a fresh install of Vista 64 and Office
2007 has never touched this machine.




> --
>
> JoAnn Paules
> MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
> Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"
>
>
>
> "Tom Baxter" <> wrote in message
> news:1C7DB592-C228-415C-9D8C-...
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> This has been annoying me for several months now.
>>
>> I have a Vista 64 machine. Office 2007 is *NOT* installed on this machine
>> yet Microsoft Update constantly tells me I have two available updates:
>>
>> 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1)
>> Update for the Microsoft 2007 Office System (KB946691)
>>
>> Why am I constantly prodded to install updates for products I do not have
>> installed?
>>
>

Free Microsoft technical support for any Windows Update issues: https://support.microsoft.com/oas/de...spx?gprid=6527


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast

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"Tom Baxter" <> wrote in message news:1C7DB592-C228-415C-9D8C-...
Hi everyone,

This has been annoying me for several months now.

I have a Vista 64 machine. Office 2007 is *NOT* installed on this machine
yet Microsoft Update constantly tells me I have two available updates:

2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Update for the Microsoft 2007 Office System (KB946691)

Why am I constantly prodded to install updates for products I do not have
installed?

Are you using the Office 2007 compatibility pack?

"Tom Baxter" <> wrote in message
news:1C7DB592-C228-415C-9D8C-...
: Hi everyone,
:
: This has been annoying me for several months now.
:
: I have a Vista 64 machine. Office 2007 is *NOT* installed on this machine
: yet Microsoft Update constantly tells me I have two available updates:
:
: 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1)
: Update for the Microsoft 2007 Office System (KB946691)
:
: Why am I constantly prodded to install updates for products I do not have
: installed?
:

Why am I asked to install Office 2007,during the trial period, each time I
want to use it?
--
I couldn't figure out how to start my own thread and the previous question
brought me here....so, again I ask......
"Why am I asked to install Office 2007,during the trial period, each time I
want to use it?"

????????Is this a mistake on Microsoft's part?????? What a burden I must
barefor ta freebie!!!!

I wanted to try and maybe buy this product but it will take up too much of
my time to Install this everytime I wanty to use it.

If there isn't another way to try this without the installs each time, I
will not be considering this for my business.

Any comments?!
Have an awesome day!
T Martin


"Tom Baxter" wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> This has been annoying me for several months now.
>
> I have a Vista 64 machine. Office 2007 is *NOT* installed on this machine
> yet Microsoft Update constantly tells me I have two available updates:
>
> 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1)
> Update for the Microsoft 2007 Office System (KB946691)
>
> Why am I constantly prodded to install updates for products I do not have
> installed?
>

"Tom [Pepper] Willett" <> wrote:

> Are you using the Office 2007 compatibility pack?


No, I am not using the compatibility pack.

No version of Office has *ever* been on this machine. I built this machine
fresh form a Vista 64 install. Neither Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007 has
*ever* touched this machine. No versions of ANY of these products have been
installed ever.

Having said that, I am in communication with a Microsoft support rep who
recommended I look for the following two registry keys and delete them if
they are present. Strangely, I did have these registry keys:

HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Office
HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Office

I'm not sure why these keys were present but I deleted them. It did not fix
the problem. I am still prompted to install the two Office 2007 updates on a
machine that has never had a version of Office on it.




> "Tom Baxter" <> wrote in message
> news:1C7DB592-C228-415C-9D8C-...
> : Hi everyone,
> :
> : This has been annoying me for several months now.
> :
> : I have a Vista 64 machine. Office 2007 is *NOT* installed on this
> machine
> : yet Microsoft Update constantly tells me I have two available updates:
> :
> : 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1)
> : Update for the Microsoft 2007 Office System (KB946691)
> :
> : Why am I constantly prodded to install updates for products I do not
> have
> : installed?
> :
>
>

"Tom [Pepper] Willett" <> wrote:

> Are you using the Office 2007 compatibility pack?


No, I am not using the compatibility pack.

No version of Office has *ever* been on this machine. I built this machine
fresh form a Vista 64 install. Neither Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007 has
*ever* touched this machine. No versions of ANY of these products have been
installed ever.

Having said that, I am in communication with a Microsoft support rep who
recommended I look for the following two registry keys and delete them if
they are present. Strangely, I did have these registry keys:

HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Office
HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Office

I'm not sure why these keys were present but I deleted them. It did not fix
the problem. I am still prompted to install the two Office 2007 updates on a
machine that has never had a version of Office on it.




> "Tom Baxter" <> wrote in message
> news:1C7DB592-C228-415C-9D8C-...
> : Hi everyone,
> :
> : This has been annoying me for several months now.
> :
> : I have a Vista 64 machine. Office 2007 is *NOT* installed on this
> machine
> : yet Microsoft Update constantly tells me I have two available updates:
> :
> : 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1)
> : Update for the Microsoft 2007 Office System (KB946691)
> :
> : Why am I constantly prodded to install updates for products I do not
> have
> : installed?
> :
>
>

Tom Baxter's question keeps getting repeated with no new resposes. That's not
very helpful. His question was placed after my question, which makes no sense
at all.
I will be leaving this discussion group since it is a continuation of
Microsoft's Office Trial wasting my time.

I have fixed my problem by uninstalled my trial to Microsoft Office 2008.
YEA!! A resolution that works!!!!!!!!!
--
Have an awesome day!


"T Martin" wrote:

> Why am I asked to install Office 2007,during the trial period, each time I
> want to use it?
> --
> I couldn't figure out how to start my own thread and the previous question
> brought me here....so, again I ask......
> "Why am I asked to install Office 2007,during the trial period, each time I
> want to use it?"
>
> ????????Is this a mistake on Microsoft's part?????? What a burden I must
> barefor ta freebie!!!!
>
> I wanted to try and maybe buy this product but it will take up too much of
> my time to Install this everytime I wanty to use it.
>
> If there isn't another way to try this without the installs each time, I
> will not be considering this for my business.
>
> Any comments?!
> Have an awesome day!
> T Martin
>
>
> "Tom Baxter" wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > This has been annoying me for several months now.
> >
> > I have a Vista 64 machine. Office 2007 is *NOT* installed on this machine
> > yet Microsoft Update constantly tells me I have two available updates:
> >
> > 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1)
> > Update for the Microsoft 2007 Office System (KB946691)
> >
> > Why am I constantly prodded to install updates for products I do not have
> > installed?
> >

Tom Baxter wrote:

> No version of Office has *ever* been on this machine. I built this
> machine fresh form a Vista 64 install. Neither Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003
> or 2007 has *ever* touched this machine. No versions of ANY of these
> products have been installed ever.

What software *have* you installed?

Hmmm. I wonder if Vista itself contains some part of Office, perhaps in order
to provide the ability to read Office 2007 documents?

Harry.

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