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I have a installation of Microsoft Office 2007 Small Business that went bad. It kept prompting to install everytime I tried to open any of the Office applications. So I uninstalled the entire thing and figured I would just reinstall it. Well now I can't get it to reinstall successfully. <br />
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About 3/4 of the way through the install it stops on this file. MSPTSL.DLL <br />
It gives me this message. <br />
failed to install .. <br />
Error 1304. Error writing to file: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\MSPTLS.DLL<wbr />. Verify that you have access to that directory.<br />
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I thought maybe there was a registry entry that was locking the file so that I couldn't write to it so I searched for it in the registry. I found the entry and deleted it, but still get this error on install. <br />
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I can't do anything to the file itself without getting error. <br />
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Does anyone have any ideas or have you seen this before ? <br />
Please help. I need to get 2007 Office back on this computer quickly. 
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I have a installation of Microsoft Office 2007 Small Business that went bad. It kept prompting to install everytime I tried to open any of the Office applications. So I uninstalled the entire thing and figured I would just reinstall it. Well now I can't get it to reinstall successfully. 

About 3/4 of the way through the install it stops on this file. MSPTSL.DLL 
It gives me this message. 
failed to install .. 
Error 1304. Error writing to file: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\MSPTLS.DLL. Verify that you have access to that directory.

I thought maybe there was a registry entry that was locking the file so that I couldn't write to it so I searched for it in the registry. I found the entry and deleted it, but still get this error on install. 

I can't do anything to the file itself without getting error. 

Does anyone have any ideas or have you seen this before ? 
Please help. I need to get 2007 Office back on this computer quickly. 

Microsoft Office Install stopping on MSPTLS.DLL

Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.