I have encountered a very stressful problem, whenever I attempt to open Word (2007), or Excel I get an error message which says:
"The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail."
I have been combing forums for the past 12 hours and have attempted several suggested fixes, to no avail. Such as those suggested:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-word/side-by-side-configuration-error/5eed4b6e-3662-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5\
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/officeversion_other-office_install/word-2007-will-not-open-it-says-the-side-by-side/5cf5bc15-8ab8-470b-bb99-df26bade6e4f
An attempted system restore was not successful (the restore actually failed and the restore point was not far enough in the past to pre-date the problem).
I attempted to run a sfc scan was suggested in one form (to another user), but this failed at ~77%, with a message which said that it could not perform the process.
Any help would be much appreciated as this has consumed my entire day!
Thank you in advance.
As an update:
Even Viewer states the following:
"MMC could not create the snap-in. The Snap-in might not have been installed correctly.
Name: Event Viewer CLSID: FX:{b05566ad-fe9c-be05-7a4cbb7cb510}"
And my efforts to uninstall and re-install Microsoft Office have been met with the following comment:
"Microsoft Enterprise 2007 uninstall did not complete successfully"
