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1. #How to reinstall microsoft office 365 on a new device update#
2. #How to reinstall microsoft office 365 on a new device windows#

With this solution windows basically *thinks* office is where it's supposed to be (C:) but it's not Use this solution at your own risk, I have it working and i'm quite happy with it. It's weird, and it's kind of hacked together, but it seems to be working. There's no going back unless I have some sort of a backup image to fall back to in an emergency.Īlright CharlieWright I think I have a solution to this problem! Haven't worked up the nerve to do that yet, though, because once I delete the factory-restore partition, And I can still recover back to factory-new using the Windows-created restore image.

#How to reinstall microsoft office 365 on a new device update#

To turn Windows Update back on and use the thing properly. That will add about 7GB of space to the System partition which I hope will allow me If I can do that (an earlier attempt to restore such a Windows-created image failed and I almost had to send the device back to the factory to be re-imagedīefore I was able to recover it to working condition again) then I plan to delete the Factory restore partition on the C: drive and expand the basic System partition. I'm still exploring my ability to restore the Tablet from an image I created using Windows restore. Now I can still use the thing, though I connect to the Internet only rarely so as to "protect" myself from bad things. In order to prevent Windows from chewing up what little free-space remains on the C: partition, I disabled Windows Update. Then I (re)activated the Office-365 product. Then I went thru the entire registryĪnd changed every entry I could find that referenced Office to point from C: to D: - there were literally dozens of them. Then I added every registry key I could find in a bunch of posts to different threads, including this one. I reset my Tablet to the factory-new image. If not, what's the name of the REG_SZ I need to add to. So do I need to add an Override REG_SZ to the ClickToRun node? With a value equal to the desired path to the D drive? Do I also need to add the path as the value for the (Default) REG_SZ within the. But there's no "Override" key on that branch. "InstallPath" with a value pointing to C. The closest I can find is HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\ClickToRun, which does indeed contain a REG_SZ And, by then, the product is probably already installed on c:Īre you saying one should Uninstall the product from C:, then go back and, creating registry keys as needed, create the InstallRoot key you mention above with a value specifying the desired path to another drive? Then try to reinstall?Įarlier in this thread, there's a reference to "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\ClickToRun\Override" but I can't find such a key on my tablet. The HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common branch doesn't exist in the registry unless Office has already been installed.