Do you allow it to fully run and insert your disk if prompted?
You'd be better off asking this question in a general Office group - they
deal with these types of general installation issues.

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Bill R MVP
"gstoth" wrote in message
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I just reinstalled Office 2003 and now whenever I open or close a new
e-mail
in outlook I receive a message that windows in configuring Office 2003
basic
then it runs the iinstaller for 30 or so seconds.