Finalizing Installation Office 2013 Stuck

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The Installation says 'Finalizing installation. This may take a few minutes' but it never ends about 8 hour. But the office is already installed and the setup is still stuck at there. So what must I gonna do? Are you installing an Office 365 bundle, or local install of Office 2013?

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Anonymous 02/19/14(Wed)20:15 UTC+1 No.40403102 Report Trying to install Office 2013, but it gets stuck at 'Finalizing installation'. Has anyone else had this problem? I have the release version of Windows 8 and the release version of Office 2013 from MSDN. I removed my Office 2010 and started the Office 2013 32/64 bit install.

Md 81299 Tevion Manual Transfer. Either way, it should not take more than 10-15 minutes at the outside. To provide specific suggestions we NEED the FULL and EXACT error message (and code if any) for the problem.

Since you don't have one I can suggest 2 tools to help. First, invoke 'Verbose Logging' Second, since you are running Win7 or Win8, use the PSR to capture the installation process. **************** Windows 8 Verbose Logging How to enable Windows Installer Verbose logging. Although the article says it is for XP, I believe it will work for Vista and Win7 because I was explicitly led to the article from a Win7 specific article. Windows Installer can use logging to help assist in troubleshooting issues with installing software packages. This logging is enabled by adding keys and values to the registry.

After the entries have been added and enabled, you can retry the problem installation and Windows Installer will track the progress and post it to the Temp folder. The new log's file name is random, but begins with the letters 'Msi' and end with a.log extension.

Note: turn off Verbose logging when not needed because it will create a LOG file every time the Installer service is used, ie for all Windows Updates. Trouble shooting Office installation failures Office 2010, enable verbose logging ************************** Win7 & Win8 Problem Steps Recorder - PSR. Please use the Problem Steps Recorder to capture what you are doing so we have more details to work with. Either copy and paste the recorded steps into the forum or upload the zip file to Skydrive and give us a link to the zip file Solving problems unique to a machine can be an arduous task for both the end-user and the help desk.

That’s why Win7 introduces the Problem Steps Recorder, a screen-capture tool that allows the end-user to record the problems they’re having step-by-step. If the problem is repeatable, the recorder will capture what you do in text form. It’s as simple as hitting “record” then adding in comments as needed. A HTML-based file is converted to a.ZIP folder, which is easily passed on to the help desk.

The program is accessible from the Control Panel under “Record steps to reproduce a problem” or run psr.exe from Explorer. Upload result to a file share site and post the link back here.

The Installation says 'Finalizing installation. This may take a few minutes' but it never ends about 8 hour. But the office is already installed and the setup is still stuck at there.

So what must I gonna do? Are you installing an Office 365 bundle, or local install of Office 2013?

Either way, it should not take more than 10-15 minutes at the outside. To provide specific suggestions we NEED the FULL and EXACT error message (and code if any) for the problem. Since you don't have one I can suggest 2 tools to help. First, invoke 'Verbose Logging' Second, since you are running Win7 or Win8, use the PSR to capture the installation process.

**************** Windows 8 Verbose Logging How to enable Windows Installer Verbose logging. Although the article says it is for XP, I believe it will work for Vista and Win7 because I was explicitly led to the article from a Win7 specific article. Windows Installer can use logging to help assist in troubleshooting issues with installing software packages. This logging is enabled by adding keys and values to the registry. After the entries have been added and enabled, you can retry the problem installation and Windows Installer will track the progress and post it to the Temp folder. The new log's file name is random, but begins with the letters 'Msi' and end with a.log extension. Note: turn off Verbose logging when not needed because it will create a LOG file every time the Installer service is used, ie for all Windows Updates.