Message occurs when you start Outlook 2013: Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office 64-bit Components 2013
When you start Microsoft Outlook 2013, you receive the following message:
Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office 64-bit Components 2013
The message disappears after a time, and Outlook starts. However, you continue to receive the message whenever you start Outlook.
Cause
This issue occurs when the following conditions are true:
- The 32-bit version of Office is installed on a 64-bit version of the operating system.
- The Windows Search Service isn’t installed.
Resolution
To resolve this issue, install the Windows Search Service. To do this, following the steps that are appropriate for your version of Windows.
Windows 7 and Windows 8
- Close Outlook.
- Start Control Panel.
- Click Programs and Features >Turn Windows features on or off.
- Enable Windows Search, and then click OK.
- Restart the computer if you’re prompted to do this.
Windows Server 2012
- Start Server Manager.
- Click Manage >Add Roles and Features.
- On the Before You Begin page, click Next.
- On the Installation Type page, select Role-based or Feature-based Installation, and then click Next.
- On the Server Selection page, select the server or virtual hard disk on which you want to install the Windows Search Service.
- On the Features page, select Windows Search Service, and then click Next.
- On the Confirmation page, verify that Windows Search Service is listed, and then click Install.
Windows Server 2008
- Start Server Manager.
- Click Roles in the left navigation pane.
- Click Add Roles in the Roles Summary pane.
- On the Server Roles page, select the File Services role, and then click Next.
- On the Role Services page, select the Windows Search Service role service, and then click Next.
- On the Confirmation page, verify that Windows Search Service is listed, and then click Install.
More information
If you prefer not to use or install the Windows Search Service, you can disable indexing in Outlook. To do this, follow these steps:
- Exit Outlook.
- Start Registry Editor. To do this, use one of the following procedures, as appropriate for your version of Windows.
- Windows 8: Press Windows Key + R to open a Run dialog box. Type regedit.exe and then press OK.
- Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2012: Click Start, type regedit.exe in the search box, and then press Enter.
- In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search
- Point to New on the Edit menu, and then click DWORD (32-bit) Value.
- Type PreventIndexingOutlook, and then press Enter.
- Right-click PreventIndexingOutlook, and then click Modify.
- In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
- On the File menu, click Exit to exit Registry Editor.
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«Please wait while windows configures Online Plug-in» very often
I use every day Citrix Receiver in order to connect to one of my customers.
My customer has a web interface to connect to.
A lot of times (say, once a month) I have the following problem.
I can enter the web interface, however, when I try to run a virtualized app, I get the error «Please wait while windows configures Online Plug-in», and then such configuration fails (*).
Citrix does not work anymore.
Every time, I have to uninstall and then reinstall the Citrix Workspace. That way, Citrix works again.
Is there any more clever way to resolve the problem?
Thank you.
(*) fails = Windows opens a dialog claiming that «The feature that you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable», and it asks me where it can find the installation package ICAWebWrapper.msi.
Edit
Nobody can answer this? Where could I find the ICAWebWrapper.msi? Thank you.
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- Users often complain about not being able to launch MS Office software.
- A configuration window is giving them a hard time.
- If you are running into problems sending a command to the program, refer to our below fixes.
When you open software, a configuration window might occasionally open. However, some MS Office users get stuck with a configuration dialog box that opens every time they launch one of the suite’s applications.
The configuration window states Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office.
The software still opens, but the configuration window keeps on popping up whenever some Microsoft Office users launch the applications. Consequently, the applications don’t launch especially quickly.
This configuration dialog box error pertains to various Office versions. This is how you can get rid of that configuration window if it keeps on opening when you launch MS Office software.
How can I fix Updating Office, please wait a moment error?
- Try out Stellar Repair Toolkit
- Repair Microsoft Office via the Control Panel
- Open the Microsoft Easy Fix 50780 Tool
- Select the Windows Search Option
- Enter Registry Keys in Run
- Switch Off MS Office Add-ins
1. Try out Stellar Repair Toolkit
You’re used to getting the very best out of this family of client software and services developed by Microsoft. However, Microsoft Office configuration issues appear quite often.
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2. Repair Microsoft Office via the Control Panel
1. Press the Windows + R keys at the same time.
2. The Run dialog box will open on the screen.
3. Enter appwiz.cpl in Run and click OK.
4. Select the listed MS Office suite.
5. Press the Change button, and then click Yes to confirm.
6. Select the Repair option and click Continue.
7. For MS Office 2016, select the more thorough Online Repair option, and then click Repair.
8. Wait for the repairing process to finish.
9. Check if the issue persists.
Repairing corrupted MS Office installations might get rid of the configuration dialog box. To do this, you need to navigate to the Programs and Features menu and manually set up a repairing process for the app.
3. Open the Microsoft Easy Fix 50780 Tool
There’s a Microsoft Easy Fix 50780 tool specifically for fixing configuration windows that keep on opening for MS Office 2010 applications.
This tool probably won’t be much good for the latest Office versions, but it might get rid of the configuration window for Office 2010 applications.
Click the Download button on this Microsoft Easy Fix page to save the tool to Windows. Then you can open that tool’s easy fix wizard to fix the configuration window.
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- How to Install and Use Grammarly for Microsoft Office
- How to Create and Format a Microsoft Word Table of Contents
- How to Accept All Changes on Microsoft Word
4. Select the Windows Search Option
- Open the Run accessory in Windows.
- Input appwiz.cpl in Run’s text box, and click the OK button.
- Click Turn Windows features on or off to open the window in the snapshot directly below.
- Then select the Windows Search option if it’s not currently checked, and press the OK button. Note that Windows 10’s Windows Features window doesn’t include that setting.
It might the case that you’re running a 32-bit version of MS Office on a 64-bit platform. If so, a Microsoft Office 64-bits Components window will pop up when you launch the applications.
If that’s the configuration dialog box that is opening, activate Windows Search in Windows 10 as described above.
5. Enter Registry Keys in Run
Some Microsoft Office users have resolved the Windows configuration dialog box error by adding new keys to the registry. You can do that with Run instead of the Registry Editor.
So open Run with the Windows key + R hotkey, and separately enter the following registry keys in Run’s text box:
- reg add HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftOffice15.0OutlookOptions /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1
- reg add HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftOffice15.0WordOptions /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1
- reg add HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftOffice15.0ExcelOptions /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1
- reg add HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftOffice15.0PowerpointOptions /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1
- reg add HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftOffice15.0AccessOptions /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1
Each registry key is for one of five Office suites. Note that the MS Office version number in the registry keys above (15.0) is for MS Office 2013.
You will need to modify that number for alternative versions of the Office suite. For example, the version number for MS Office 2010 is 14.0.
So, you would enter the following key for Word 2010: reg add HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0WordOptions /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1
MS Office 2016 users will need to change the version number to 16.0.
6. Switch Off MS Office Add-ins
- Open an MS Office application.
- Click File and select Options to open a settings window.
- Select the Add-ins tab to open a list of add-ins.
- Select COM Add-ins from the drop-down menu.
- Press the Go button to open the COM Add-ins window.
- Now deselect all the selected add-ins listed there.
- Press the OK button on the COM Add-ins window.
- Close and reopen Microsoft Office.
The Windows configuration dialog box might keep on opening because of third-party Office add-ins. To see if that’s the case, disable all your MS Office add-ins.
You can switch Office 2016’s add-ins off as described above.
To read more about similar issues, feel free to visit this Windows 10 Troubleshooting section.
To achieve a world-class experience, we also encourage you to bookmark our Microsoft Office Hub.
These were a few resolutions that might obliterate a stuck Windows configuration dialog box for MS Office or help to solve the Updating Office, please wait a moment error.
Office software should eventually launch a whole lot quicker. Let us know if this happened to you as well in the comments area below.
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Please wait while windows configures
I seem to be stuck in a rut here.
On my computer I use for development, I have repeatedly run the install/uninstall of my application whilst testing the project without issue.
I have managed to break the uninstall by stupidly manually removing installed files. Now whenever I run the installer F5 it wants to remove what was previously installed.
I cannot get past this and don’t know how to fix it.
Sorin Posts: 663 Joined: Mon May 08, 2017 1:03 pm
Re: Cannot uninstall stuck on ‘please wait while windows configures’ HELP!!
To fix this, you could try to recache the msi. This is the complete method:
1. Build the project
2. Use the following command line :
msiexec /fv
Where
3. Go to Control Panel and uninstall the product.
Here is an article regarding this subject : How do I remove a broken installation?
Best regards,
Sorin