Cant get word or excel to work now in vista

[Ashman UK]

Hi.

We have microsoft office xp pro installed here on vista and i use specifically use word to view a job cv i have made up on my pc which i can use to send to employees for say online job applications.

For some unknown and absolutely irritating reason when opening any word or excel document i now get a message everytime coming up that says "microsoft word has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application".

So i have uninstalled and re-installed of the cd and still it does this.

However, if i disable user account control in vista-reboot it then works fine but of course it is recommended to have UAC switched on in vista but with this on, word or excel wont work.

Ive tried changing permissions and searching on google and it is a widespread problem so ive read.

Anybody else had this problem?.

Its driving me nuts as its worked fine before in vista until the this morning for some reason

 

[J.B]

Just speculating, have you tried installing it with UAC off, running it once then turning UAC back on?

 

[Ashman UK]

Yeah actually thats one of the solutions that people mentioned to try with this problem when i googled the issue earlier.

I have tried this with UAC off-install-switch on UAC-reboot, but unfortunately it still does the same.

I guess ill have to temporarily disable UAC when ever i need to say edit my cv through word then re-enable UAC and re-boot when finished for now.

Bit of a pain having to do that though.