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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”

  3. Jim

    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…

  5. William

    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

  10. Gary

    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.

  12. Annette

    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.

  15. Dan

    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.

  19. Peter

    Your a Genius, it worked 1st time, no worries. I had been to a site, editing registry and stuff!!!
    THANK YOU!!!
    SORTED!

  20. Bill

    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

  26. Sue

    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).

  28. Greg Phillips

    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

    1. Rick

      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.

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