Microsoft KB Archive/290553

= OFFXP: You Are Prompted to Restart After the System Files Update Is Installed =

Article ID: 290553

Article Last Modified on 12/4/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
 * Microsoft Office XP Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Office XP Small Business Edition
 * Microsoft Office XP Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Office XP Standard Edition for Students and Teachers
 * Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Access 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q290553



SYMPTOMS
When you run Office Setup, you may receive the following message after the installation of the System Files Update

You must restart your computer before configuration of  can continue.

Would you like to restart now?

where  is the name of the specific Office product being used.

You receive this message even if you use either REBOOT=Force and/or REBOOTPROMPT=S in the command line, the Setup.ini file, or a transform created by the Custom Installation Wizard.



WORKAROUND
To automatically restart after the installation of the System Files Update, you must use the /q switch. To do this, follow these steps:  Click Start and then click Run. Type a command line similar to the following in the Open box

\Setup.exe /qb-

where  is the full path to your Office installation source files. Click OK.

Setup will run with the user interface in Basic mode. This means you cannot make any choices, and Office will be installed with default settings.

NOTE: The /q switch can only be used with Enterprise editions of Office XP.

For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

281934 OFFXP: Errors When Installing Office from Command Line



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about Setup switches for Office XP, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

283686 OFFXP: Setup Command-Line Switches

For additional information about the System Files Update, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

286399 OFFXP: Description of the System Files Update

Additional query words: prb reboot

Keywords: kbprb KB290553

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