This error may also occur on other downloadable versions of Office 2010, but I haven’t seen it yet anywhere else. For more details on why you should never use a registry cleaner, see my blog entry here. Update (June 2012): I have now been able to confirm that this problem is most often caused by the use of registry cleaners. The error is worded as such:Īlthough many solutions on the internet (even from Microsoft employees and the KB) suggest that a simple Repair install or Uninstall of Click2Run from the Programs and Features menu will correct this, executing the uninstaller actually triggers the exact same error message. For as yet unknown reasons reasons I have now discovered (as detailed later in this article), occasionally some PCs exhibit an error when launching Office 2010 Starter (which is preinstalled on many new PCs). Here’s a frustrating issue that hasn’t yet been solved by anyone at Microsoft from what I can tell.
