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Stop the Microsoft Office Agreement (EULA) from popping up every time you start Outlook, or Word or Excel

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:

  1. Close ALL Microsoft Office related programs (Outlook, Publisher, Powerpoint, Excel, or Word)
  2. Click Start –> Computer
  3. Double-click the C drive (your primary hard drive)
  4. Double-Click the Program Files folder
  5. Double-Click the Microsoft Office folder
  6. Double-Click  the Office 11 folder
  7. RIGHT Click on any of the Office applications (Winword, Outlook, Excel)
  8. Click Run as Administrator
  9. The program will start and ask you to agree to the EULA (agreement) again and click I agree or Yes
  10. Close the program
  11. Close all open windows

Now you can use your Office 2003 programs normally.

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143 thoughts on “Stop the Microsoft Office Agreement (EULA) from popping up every time you start Outlook, or Word or Excel”

  5. mary

    Thanks! I very much appreciate this fix which also works fine in Win7 using Office 2003 Small Business Edition.

  8. Cpl. Chronic

    Figures, even though I’m the administrator and the only account on this comp, I still have to select “Run as administrator” in order for this to work. Now to figure out the dozen other problems MS has thrown at me on here.

  12. Jakob

    Wow! I tried several other intended fixes, right down to modifying the registry, all with NO success. My Word 2003 worked will with Windows 7, but the Accept window persisted no matter what I tried.

    Today I used your tip, and in less than a minute everything was perfect. Thank you.

  15. Joyce

    Brilliant! Thank youn to whomever came up with this! This has been driving me crazy and the “solution” Microsoft gave me didn’t work. I am forever grateful.

  16. Maureen Hanlon

    Much better and easier steps to follow than the Microsoft site. I could figure it out and make it happen. Thank you very much. This has been driving me crazy.

  17. Joe

    Well I tried your suggestion and I found out that I do not have an ‘Office11’ folder. I have a ‘Office12’ folder which does not give me the options that you have mentioned. Do you have any other suggestions?
    Thank you.

  18. Joe

    An update to my last comment:
    I have two ‘Program Files’ folders. The other is ‘Program Files (x86)’. The second folder is where I found ‘Office11’. I had to explore a little bit and your suggestion worked.
    Thank you.

  19. Jakob

    One of my favorite oxymorons is:
    Microsoft Works

    Still, Microsoft Office is cool and quite good. The 2003 team, though, did that permission thing without really thinking. I hope, for if they actually thought about it and still did it……….sigh!

    You, though, came grandly to the rescue. Beautifully simple suggestion did the trick. Thanks much.

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