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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”

  1. Maureen

    Thanks I have put up with this for ages. So simple and problem solved! Will be bookmarking your site and checking on it regularly. 🙂

  5. GEM

    I just wanted everyone to know that I have been trying to solve this problem for days now. Everyone seemed to have the right idea including the microsoft knowledge base artical but the solution on help me Rick was the only one that worked for me.
    Thank You

    1. Rick

      You are welcome…don’t stop there, however, there are lots of great time saving tips throughout HelpMeRick.com. Come on back…and bring your friends!!

  9. Ludwig

    the only way to not have to deal with such inconveniences ( for which you all have paid profumately) is simply to use openoffice.

    or for the brave among you, ditch windows and install linux once and for all.

  14. Cathy

    I have vista and could not run the program as administrator. I found a utility in Control Panel “Use an Older Program with this Version of Windows”. I was able to use that utility to open the program as Administrator. Once opened, I accepted the EULA, and it stopped popping up. The new problem was then Windows wanted “Permission” every time I opened Office 2003 (equally annoying as the EULA). I went back to the “Use an Older Program…” utility, shut off the Open as Administrator request, and problem solved. Whew! Thanks for your help. Vista users may find this additional bit of info helpful as well.

  15. Keith

    Fantastic explanation on the fix, works for Windows 7. You only need to do it for one application and the rest pick up the change. Thank you for the solution posting.

  16. Greg

    Thank You! I tried some other solutions on the web but yours was the only one that worked. I upgraded to Windows 7 and I am using Office 2003. The message immediately went away after I applied your fix.

    Again Thank You!

  17. Lisa

    THANK YOU SO MUCH! 🙂

    Yes, it absolutely works with Windows 7, and as Keith said, one fix fixes them all.

    The internet (not Microsoft’s “help”) is a wonderful thing!

  20. Dave

    Cathy’s fix is the complete solution for Windows 7! Thanks Cathy. You need to Run as Administrator once, which solves the EULA problem, then remove the run as administrator permission. If you do not, then every time you restart Outlook, you will be asked “do you want the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to your computer…”, which is because you are running as administrator under the User Account Control in Windows 7.

    One problem solved… Now if I could just figure out why I cannot import my Outlook .pst files into outlook in Windows 7, I would be home free.

  21. Gerald Gilman

    After some 18 years of computer jargon, I finally found some information that actually works. After gathering info from another google subscriber I crashed the computer. Wish I would have read your remedy first. I was fortunate to put everything back in order on a brand new laptop.
    With your help I was able to get my computer to react the way I want it to react and not the way the manufacturer wants it to react.
    I am so sick of being sick. You’re the cure for atleast one problem. I commend you. You should be the manufacturer.

    Thanks a million.

  22. Phil Noelke

    If all you find is an office12 folder that has no programs in it – it may be that you just bought a new computer and it had a trial version of Office 2007 – and the fix won’t work here. Go find the office11 folder! Took me 10 minutes to figure this out. It was in the Progam Files (x86) folder. Thought I was going nuts for a while there.

  26. Thera-Pet-Andy

    Works Great, not only does it work in Win 7, and though I can’t explain why, Word Opens lightning fast now.

    Thank You, Thank You, Thank You… . . .

  27. Joe

    I was going out of my mind. It kept popping up every time I opened an Office file. I followed your instructions and “Bingo” it was gone. BIG THANK YOU

  31. Lee

    Thanks.
    I’ve been dealing with this issue on my new Dell laptop with Windows 7 for a couple of weeks now. Seems to have fixed the problem.

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