PROBLEM

Microsoft Office 2013 opens the Configuration Setup window whenever you try to open your documents or open the applications itself. Setup shows the following windows and messages:

CAUSE

If you have two copies of Microsoft Offices existing on your computer, there is a possibility of version conflict that causes the Configuration Setup to appear whenever you attempt to open your Microsoft Office Documents. In our case, we had Office 2013 installed and running for several years without a problem, but when we decided to install Office 365 as well, the configuration setup window kept popping up whenever we try to open our documents.

SOLUTION

The one that worked for us was the following instructions:

Open Notepad. Copy and paste the code below into Notepad. reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1 reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1 reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1 reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1 In Notepad, click on File > Save As… and under “Save as type:” drop-down menu, select “All Files (*.*)”. Then, put “configwin.bat” without the quotes as the file name and save this to any location in your computer. Browse to that location you have saved said file, then double-click on configwin.bat to open it. The program should automatically run in Command Prompt (cmd) without you having to do anything. However, if prompted to save the changes, key in “Y” without the quotes and hit the enter key every time asks you to do so.

CONCLUSION

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