I have Office 2007 installed on a Windows Vista system and I installed the optional Office Live add-in offered to me through Windows Update.  The first time you start Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, it is supposed to pop up a getting started window to allow you to get more information on Office Live, but there is a checkbox in the lower left corner allowing you to prevent the window from being displayed again.  The problem is, the checkbox doesn’t always work.  Microsoft published a KB article on it and in that article says this condition happens when the person running Office isn’t the person who installed the add-on.  The problem is that it is looking for a registry key that doesn’t exist in the current user’s registry and therefore it doesn’t write the value which allows the popup to honor the setting of the checkbox.

The fix is easy.  Just define an OfficeLive registry key at HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft.  This worked for me.  Kind of a sloppy error, though, if you ask me.

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