Cannot install office 2007 due to a 1402 error: the registry key
friend attempted to install Office Professional Plus 2007 and get this error: Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 encountered an error during setup. Error 1402. Setup cannot open the registry key UNKNOWN\.wll\Word.Addin.8\ShellNew. Verify that you have sufficient [ermission] to access the registry. How to solve this problem and access the registry.
To fix this error, do the following steps:
Step 1: Go into the registry and find the key stated in the error code.
Step 2: Right click on the key and click permissions. When the “do not have permission” prompt comes up just click OK and that should open the permissions box.
Step 3: Click the advanced button (bottom right corner), owner tab, then under change name to, click on your PC and hit the apply button/OK. That should take you back to permissions.
Step 4: Add your pc name, administrator, and system to the group and user names box, and check the full control and read boxes for each one.