Administrative rights could solve this problem
Q I’ve recently upgraded to Windows Vista and reinstalled the copy of Microsoft Office that I formerly had running under XP Pro.
As far as I can tell, both installation and activation went OK, but every time I start an Office program, I get the End-User License Agreement popping up, and have to agree to this before I can start work. How can I get Office to remember that I’ve already agreed?
Tim Reilly
A According to Microsoft, this happens when a user doesn’t have the administrative rights to edit the corresponding Registry keys.
One way round this is to type, for instance, excel.exe in the Vista Start Menu search box. When excel.exe appears in the results list, right-click on it and choose ‘Run as administrator’. Choose an administrator name and enter the password in the User Account Control box.
Excel will start and you will once again be prompted to accept the EULA, but this should be the last time.
Repeat the operation for the other Office programs, such as winword.exe, powerpnt.exe, msaccess.exe, mspub.exe and so on.
By running these ‘as administrator’ you will have the power to set the necessary Registry entries and the problem will then be solved for all users of the computer.
