Stop Office 2003/2007 configuring on start

If you have both Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed on the same machine, Office goes through a "configuration" process when switching between the versions. You can stop this from happening by creating a "NoReReg" DWORD with the value "1" in these two keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options

If Access still configures on every start, see this post.

Credit to David Overton.