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.
Simple, but very valuable solution. Thanks for your help.
worked. thanks!
cool
amazing. very simple. wish I had done much sooner.
Thanks! I very much appreciate this fix which also works fine in Win7 using Office 2003 Small Business Edition.
Cheers! Been bugging me for ages and now fixed. Thanks for posting this.
Thank you! Simple but HUGE timesaver and frustration relief
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.
Thank, it hardly took one minute to solve the issue. Clear-cut, right guidance. Thank you very much
Brilliant and simple, thanks.
Thanks! Awesome!
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.
So simple and straight forward – worked perfectly
Thanks a lot!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks so much….this was really driving me crazy everytime I opened mail!
Great! It worked immediately, thanks a lot.
Great to find a “solution” that works!! Thank you, much appreciated!!!
Tried various solutions (including Microsoft0. None worked until yours. Thankyou.
Thanks, mate!
Great .. did it !!!
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