"Preparing to Install" problem

[Habylab]

Hi again, this problem is annoying, as i speak.Preparing to Install comes up every 5 minutes, but i think it's due to microsoft office... I installed a beta 2007 version...and it said "beta has run out" and then quit. now i'm stuck with no office 2007 or 2003and this annoying "preparing to install" windows.
Please help.

 

[Tmagic650]

There's really nothing you can do besides uninstalling Office 2007, and reinstalling Office 2003 if you can

 

[Habylab]

yeah i did a system restore, as soon as i realised it was a beta, now i'm stuck with nothing... anything to sort it out.
Also after system restore did it's stuff my hardrive took up 2 gb more space... is this usual?
Cheers

 

[Tmagic650]

If you reinstall the OS fresh, you can re-download the Office trial, and have the 60-day trial once again. I have the Office 2007 Standard trial, and the 60 days will be up in November. I plan to have the cash to buy the full version by that time. It's just foolish to expect to use a trial version without planning to buy the full version at the end of the trial. I do realize that these Office trials are included on many store bought computers.

Your Restore probably put some unwanted programs back on the C drive accounting for the loss of 2GB of space

 

[Habylab]

is there anyway of stopping this, or finding out what's causing it?

 

[Habylab]

well actually just trying now, i do have publisher, but it says after loading up, feature not installed.I can't get to the detect and repair, and i don't have the office files, deleting them in a disc clean-up

 

[Spyder_1386]

ironically i received the same messages after i cleaned out my hard disk from a virus using the spyware instructions posted on this site. Maybe the trial version also has some malware attached to it? i'm only speculating this since i have the same "preparing to install" problem at this point in time.

Spyder_1386

 

[AlbertLionheart]

you could check the contents of msconfig to stop it pre-loading any MS Office bits, perhaps?
Another option would be Open Office - almost as good but FREE!

 

[Habylab]

still happening need help please!

 

[Fragrant Coit]

You could try running Hijack This, and remove any entries that relate to office.

 

[Habylab]

any more ideas, it's really bugging me, and where can i find msconfig?

 

[AlbertLionheart]

at the run prompt (start > run > type in msconfig > click OK.
Beware - remember what changes you make in case you have to undo them....

 

[Habylab]

when i go to the win.ini tab, and go under internal it has 2 about "install..."
am i looking in the right place.
Please help