We get many questions about Office activation failing: "After installing and activating Office, Outlook keeps asking to accept the End User License Agreement (EULA)."
This is caused by Windows security and permissions. Your Windows user account doesn't have the necessary permissions to write the activation to the registry.
How to Fix
Method 1: Right click on Outlook.exe and choose Run as Administrator. (Use Vista's Start search field to find outlook.exe.) Accept the EULA. If this doesn't help, use Method 2.
Method 2: Log on to the computer using a Windows account that has administration privileges. Once you do this, open Outlook. (If you use Vista, you need to right click on Outlook's shortcut and choose Run as Administrator.) Now when you accept the EULA, the acceptance is saved to the registry. When you log back into your Windows account, the EULA won't appear.
More Information
You must accept the Office End User License Agreement every time that you start an Office program (MSKB)
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Last reviewed on Sep 12, 2011
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