Microsoft KB Archive/233119

= OFF2000: How to Automatically Reboot After the First Portion of Setup =

Article ID: 233119

Article Last Modified on 1/24/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q233119



SYMPTOMS
When you run Office Setup, you receive the following alert after the initial portion of setup has finished:

The installer must restart your system before configuration of  can continue. Click Yes to restart now or No if you plan to manually restart later.

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

You will receive the above alert even if you set the REBOOT property to Force in the command-line, the Setup.ini, or the Custom Installation Wizard.



WORKAROUND
To automatically reboot after the first portion of Office setup, follow these steps:  Click Start, and click Run. Type the following command-line in the Open box:

 \Setup.exe /qb-

 Click OK.

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

If you want to create a customized Office setup, include a transform with the above command-line. For more information about transforms, see the Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit at

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork



MORE INFORMATION
For more information on setup switches for Office 2000, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

202946 OFF2000: Setup Switches for Microsoft Office 2000

Additional query words: OFF2000

Keywords: KB233119

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