Could be the "home" account/profile is corrupted or lacks permissions to
make changes to the registry. Try setting to administrator or set up
another account?

Light Man ''06 wrote:

> I removed Spy Sweeper, rebooted and reinstalled. Nothing worked. (I'm still
> in the clean boot state).
>
> "Bob I" wrote:
>
>
>>Spy Sweeper may be the culprit. Remove it to test.
>>
>>Light Man ''06 wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Here's some more information that might help. The steps so far that I have
>>>taken have been:
>>>1) Do a system restore back to a point where it worked
>>>2) Clean boot without letting the update install
>>>3) Reset security templates back to out-of-box
>>>3) Uninstall/Reinstall of Office
>>>4) Testing on other user accounts
>>>
>>>Everything works except on my 'home' account. I don't understand it. I
>>>encountered no registry errors or anything. All the Office programs will not
>>>work. Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>>Microsoft Office 2003 Student Teacher Edition
>>>Windows XP SP2
>>>Webroot Spy Sweeper (V. 5)
>>>Dell Inspiron 9300
>>>
>>
>>