If you are using Microsoft Office 2003 and Windows Vista, you might run into a situation where the End User License Agreement pops up every time you start Outlook, Word, Excel or other Office programs. No matter how many times you click “I agree”, the license keeps appearing. To stop the EULA from appearing, follow these steps:
- Close ALL Microsoft Office related programs (Outlook, Publisher, Powerpoint, Excel, or Word)
- Click Start –> Computer
- Double-click the C drive (your primary hard drive)
- Double-Click the Program Files folder
- Double-Click the Microsoft Office folder
- Double-Click the Office 11 folder
- RIGHT Click on any of the Office applications (Winword, Outlook, Excel)
- Click Run as Administrator
- The program will start and ask you to agree to the EULA (agreement) again and click I agree or Yes
- Close the program
- Close all open windows
Now you can use your Office 2003 programs normally.
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THANK YOU! This article helped me so much. It was PERFECT and solved that maddening problem.
With much appreciation,
John Adams
Glad to help John. Thanks for visiting and do comeback!
ROCKSTAR! Thanks!! I thought it was going to be much more work to find the problem. Less than 60 seconds to fix a major pain is a rarity…
Glad to help!
I very humbly thank you for this wonderful tip as i was getting a little brassed off with the Eula coming up all the time. I did notice how ever that i only needed to rt click one program of office and the rest was automatic.
But thanks once again.
William
Thanks sooo much. It was driving me absolutely crazy!!
Thank you!! This was the only solution out of many that worked.
Genius, thank you very much, still not keen on Vista though!
You are welcome, and I agree with you on the Vista comment.
I tried this several times, once doing it with Winword, once with Powerpoint and once with Outlook. Didn’t work so I tried rebooting after the change. When that didn’t work brought up the Task Manager to see if something was running but nothing there. Still pops up every time. I have 2003 Outlook and Vista.
Darn it. Have you tried completely uninstalling and resintalling the software?
Fast, easy fix. Great!!!!
Like William, I noticed when I did Excel the rest followed and did not need to be done.
Thank you. Thank you.
Vista sucks YOU ROCK!!!!
It worked for me. I did the Run Admin on Excel and it fixed my Outlook problem. Thank you!!!!
Thanks for the tip. Your suggestion noted that you have to go directly to the executable in the programs folder, other suggestions I’ve read do not. Yours worked perfectly. I’m running Windows 7 RC and Office 2003.
THANK YOU! This has been driving me nuts. The key was to go to Programs folder.
Thanks heaps, works a treat..
great info. great site
Rick – you’re the man! This was making me loco and your solution was spot on. Thanks… –RKH (Atl., GA)
Your a Genius, it worked 1st time, no worries. I had been to a site, editing registry and stuff!!!
THANK YOU!!!
SORTED!
Awsome!!!!!!!!!!That was really statring to bug me. Thanks so much. Your directions were really easy to follow for us who are not computer wizards. Have a blessed day
Glad to help, Bill….I’ll bet you can find lots of other great tips here as well! Keep coming back.
This worked with Windows 7 Home and Office 2003, too! Awesome, Thanks! Great instructions.
Thank you!! This was a pain, and it was so easy to find your site and fix the problem! Thanks again!
Thank you.. your tip worked perfectly. I was getting tired of ACCEPTING the user agreement every time I checked my email.
Thank you so much…
We just upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 and this did the trick!
OMG, this was driving me nuts! I spent too many hours trying to figure this one out; I’m so glad I found you… fixed in however long it took me to read your very simple and nicely big fonted instructions. I had deleted the 60 day trial 2007 MS Office, etc. etc. This worked on my Windows 7 Pro 64… thank you soooo much! I am brand new using Windows 7 and it is extremely foreign to me (but I think I will like it).
The perfect solution to an annoying problem. Thanks!
Dear Rick,
Thanks for this article. I am running Office 2003 Basic Editions SP3 on my new Windows 7 machine and this same thing happened.
Now I have another problem. the User Account Control keeps asking me if I want to allow the Office programs to make changes to the computer. I AM the administrator already. And even when I say YES, and then make changes, say set my contacts folder to show in the Outlook address book, those changes don’t stick.
In fact, in the case of my Outlook, any changes I make — even collapsing mail folders — don’t stick when I exit the program and open it again.
I can’t find a thing on the Microsoft site about this. Any ideas? Please help!
~ Greg
I think that Microsoft wants 7 users to upgrade to 2007. I’ve seen some glitches already too with older versions of Office…especially Outlook. Yet another reason to give up Office altogether and use Gmail/Zoho/Google Apps and/or OpenOffice.
Rick, you rock! Thanks for the tip!
Rick
Thanks for the tip It works perfect now.
Thanks. Had same problem in Windows 7. Your solution worked there too.
Cheers