After the installation has completed, Restart your computer to let the Windows Update process restart as needed. The Office installation should now resume and complete. Select End task or End Process on Windows 7. If you restart your computer after the Office installation, the Windows Update process should continue. Do the following procedure to end the Windows Update process. It's more reliable to just end the Windows Update process in Task Manager so Windows Installer can proceed and be used for the Office installation. You could wait for Windows Update to complete, but could run into further delays. If you haven't quit the installation, use Task Manager to end the Windows Update process. If it's not displayed in the list, the update has completed. If you've cancelled the Office install, you'll need to re-try the install, but before you do that check if Windows Update has completed. If the steps below don't work, see Office is taking long to install for other solutions. How you can proceed depends on whether you've already cancelled the Office install, in this case you'll need to try installing Office again or Office is still trying to install, you'll need to end the Windows Update. If Windows Update is using Windows Installer, the Office installation has to wait until the update process has finished with the Windows Installer. This problem can occur if Windows Installer is busy.
