Once I removed these strange little things, Office 2007 started to install as expected. Pressing Ctrl-U on these items within MyUnInst started the uninstall process.
I'm not sure WHO installed those or when it happened. However, it doesn't show up in Add/Remove Programs:īut it does show up when I run the very fabulous MyUnInst from Nirsoft (a must-install tool) along with a few other things like "Microsoft Office Proof," which I assume is the Spellchecker and Grammar tools. which is a shame, because looking in the registry for 30120000-006E-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE showed me that I some how got the "Office Shared MUI" on my system. which resulted in this informative message: Office Beta product conflict is detected on the computer, productcode= So, I fired up Filemon and Regmon from SysInternals and begin to dig.įileMon indicated that the setup log file was here:ĩ:58:15 AM setup.exe:5000 IRP_MJ_WRITE C:\DOCUME~1\shanselm\LOCALS~1\Temp\SetupExe(200611140958151388).log SUCCESS Offset: 0 Length: 78Ĭatalyst beta product conflict check failed. OK, so what is the setup looking for, and finding, that is causing it to bork like this? I doubt my OWC components are from a beta of Office. After removing the Office 2003 Web Components via Add/Remove Programs the problem persists.
Well, this would be fine if it were true in my case. Hm.considering that I've never installed Office 2007 Beta on this machine, and I think this would qualify as a very poor error message that would totally stump my Mom.Īccording to the FAQ online, this is indicative of having the Office 2003 Web Components from a previous version is installed. You must first uninstall any prerelease versions of the 2007 Microsoft Office system products and associates technologies." " Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s): The 2007 Microsoft Office system does not support upgrading from a prerelease version of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. I'm back to work and trying to install the Released version of Office 2007, and am greeted by this friendly dialog, announcing that
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