If you ever tried to run Word 2007 as Local System on Windows Server 2008, you probably came across two nasty problems:
- circumvent the initial dialog box Word presents when opening Word for the first time
- problem with the Building Blocks template (Building Blocks.dotx)
To solve these, use this two-way process:
1. Initial dialog box
To solve this, we need to be able to start Word in the Local System user context. The easiest way to do so is to get the psexec tool from Sysinternals (part of the PsTools suite) and run this command from and elevated command prompt:
psexec –i –s cmd.exe
From within this new command prompt, browse to
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\
and execute the command
WINWORD.EXE
You will now be presented with the initial dialog box and choose the needed options.
2. Building Blocks template problem
From the moment you have chosen the needed options in the previous step, you will probably see this warning message:
Following the solution in MS KB925175 won’t help you any further, since there is nothing wrong with the template itself.
The solution is very simple: create a Desktop folder within the Local System profile. To do so follow the steps below.
1. Get the correct user profile path:
At the same command prompt as above, execute the command echo %userprofile%
You will get an output like
C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile
2. Browse to this location and create a new folder called Desktop within this path. Make sure the permissions are set so that SYSTEM has Full control.
After following above two steps, you will now be able to start up Word in the Local System context without any problem.
1 comment:
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