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Error Code 30145-16 usually occurs if a second installation of Office was started before the first installation was finished or if you restarted your computer before the current Office installation was finished.

Before you try the steps below, close the error message, restart your computer and try installing Office again. You should also check your updates to make sure all critical updates are installed on your computer.

Windows 10

Press the Windows logo key + X to see a list of commands and options.
Click Programs and Features.
Click the Office program you want to Remove.

Windows 8. 1 & 8

You might need to restart your computer after uninstall is complete.

Please note the following points before you start re-installation of Office 2019 / 365

Temporarily disable your antivirus and firewall
Try updating your router firmware
Reset Internet Explorer settings
Start Internet Explorer without add-ons
Turn off hardware acceleration
Reset the Task Scheduler
Try a hardwired connection

Step 1

Go to office.com/setup and enter your product key.

Step 2

Enter log in credentials to verify the product key which you have entered above

Step 3

Select the language and click on Install

Step 4

Getting things ready to install

Step 5

Step 6

Office was successfully installed on this computer.

Now try to open any of office document or new word file and check the result.

Finally, if the issue ( Error Code 30145-16 ) persists after re-installing the Office 2013/ 365 ,

In Conclusion, It is strongly recommended to have check on your computer by the technical support engineer,

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Error code 30145-16 Office error code 30145-16

Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search
Type Command Prompt in the Search box, right-click Command Prompt
At the command prompt, type the command sfc /scannow, and then press ENTER:

The sfc /scannow command will scan all protected system files, and replace corrupted files with a cached copy

a. Turn Off Antivirus Software

Go to Start button, clicking Control Panel, and then, under System and Security, clicking Review your computer’s status.
Click the arrow button next to Security to expand the section.If Windows can detect your antivirus software, it’s listed under Virus protection
If the software is on, check the Help that came with the software for information on disabling it.

Steps to remove Microsoft Office

In case if the error persists even after running the Office repair tool, uninstall Office from your computer.

Open Control Panel using Start
Click on Programs and select Programs and Features.
Select Office Suite and click on Remove.

Note: If Office installation failed or it didn’t fix the
error, manual installation is required to completely remove the Office
Suite.

Find the Office 16 installation folder, typically located in C:Program Files.
Right-click the Microsoft Office 16 folder and select Delete.

Remove the Microsoft Office scheduled tasks

schtasks.exe /delete /tn “MicrosoftOfficeOffice Automatic Updates”
schtasks.exe /delete /tn “MicrosoftOfficeOffice Subscription Maintenance”
schtasks.exe /delete /tn “MicrosoftOfficeOffice Click To Run Service Monitor”

Use Task Manager to end the Click-to-Run tasks

Open Task Manager.
Click the Process tab

.exe
setup*.exe

Delete the Office files

Press Windows logo key + R to open the Run dialog box.
In the Open box, type %ProgramFiles%, and then click OK.
Delete the “Microsoft Office 16” folder.
Delete the “Microsoft Office” folder.
Open the Run dialog box, type %ProgramFiles(x86)%, and then click OK.

Delete the Microsoft Office registry sub keys

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOfficeClickToRun
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftAppVISV
Then Delete the Office key.

Delete the Start menu shortcuts

3. Click Run or the equivalent depending on the browser you’re using.

4. When you see “You’re good to go”, click All done.

Still getting Microsoft Office Error Code 30145-16 then you may contact with technical expertise that will solve your issues.

Click on a start button.
Type “RUN” and open the Run command prompt.
Type “EVENTVWR” and press enter key to open Eventvwr logs.
Double click on “windows logs” from the left-side panel and select “application “.
Now you can see many logs in the center panel.
Filter the logs to find office related issues and warnings by selecting Filter current log option from the Right side panel.
7. Find any critical, error logs the caused error code 30145-16 .

If you can’t find any reasons for the issues then just take a chance to do a clean installation to save your time.

Open Control Panel using Start.
Click on Programs and select Programs and Features.
Click on the Office product that you want to repair.
Click Change.
Select Quick Repair and click on Repair. If Quick Repair didn’t fix the Error Code 30175-13, select Online Repair and click on Repair.

Note: If Office Repair did not fix this error code, then remove and reinstall the Office installation to fix this Error Code 30175-13.

2 – Steps to remove Office

Click on Programs and select Programs and Features.
Select Office Suite and click on Remove.

Note: If Office installation failed or it didn’t fix the error, manual installation is required to completely remove the Office Suite.

Remove the Office scheduled tasks

Still getting Microsoft Office Error Code 30175-13 then you may contact with technical expertise that will solve your issues.

Whenever if you trying to install office 365 updated version and you keep getting error 30145-16 it means you haven’t installed previous office 365 properly or your previous office file got corrupt. and you might be seen below the image as an error.

Something went wrong Error code 30145-16 Go online for additional help.
Office is Busy, There is a problem starting the Office Installation.
We are sorry, but we are unable to start your program.
Sorry installation can’t continue because no compatible office products are detected.
We are sorry, but we can’t verify the signature of the files required to install your office product.
Internet connection needed. Office error code 30145-16.
Background installation ran into a problem.

When the operating system is unable to add and/or remove the products that you are requesting, It requests you to verify the file’s signature that required to install the office product. Usually, returns error code series 300XX, 1xxx series depends on the cause of the issue.

The office is Busy, There is a problem starting the Office Installation

It appears when you try to open any office program like word, excel, etc, and the office already in progress.it gives a message “we are either updating or helping you add/ or remove some programs.

We are sorry, but we are unable to start your program.

Unable to start a program is a common error in a windows operating system that causes due to failed services of a program. If there are Windows Installer services found to be not working, then you cannot install an Office product.

A Microsoft Windows Operating system is released in two different bit versions depending on the hardware architecture such as 32 and 64. It is required to install relevant versions of office suitable for the Windows Operating systems. In case of any mismatch in the versions selected, you can see this error message that says no compatible office products are detected.

We are sorry, but we can’t verify the signature of the files required to install your office product.

An Office product package is available in different forms like a disc or a click to run. In the case of a disc failure, you might see this error message which says signatures of files required to install the office product.

While you performing the online repair for your office product this error message may occur due to internet problems. You can do a quick offline repair.

Also, the Installation of Microsoft Office requires an internet connection depending on the version. The latest Office 365 suite comes with a click to run version which is a small setup file when you click on it, that would start the installation by downloading all the required files for the program. In the case of an intermittent connection or some connectivity failures, you might end up seeing this error 30145-16 .

Internet connection needed error message

Background Installation ran into a problem

This message explains that the program has been stopped by your Windows. The computer must be scanned using Windows system file scan process. This also shows that Office related files are missing from Program folders. If this happened recently with any of your cleanup programs, a system restore could help you to fix the same.

There are few ironically shown Office error codes that require an immediate action. There will be a log for every action on your computer which records all the events. It is termed as an Event viewer. This is a Windows Inbuilt program under system tools, it provides all the information for the problem causing keys.

This could cause due to the failure with your Windows related services and the executable file is unable to read the required files when you try installing Office. There may be issues with the start up programs which can be checked under System Configuration.

Perform system file scan

System file scan in short SFC scan is windows inbuilt program to fix altered/modified and damaged files of the operating system. It can fix several updates failures, other violations done by several mismatched files.

Office error codes also can be fixed with this scan if they are not damaged much. If you see any file violations still exist after the scan then move to Event viewer to check what has caused the office error code 30145-16. Watch video to know how to perform SFC SCAN to fix office error code 30145-16 .

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TcCD_3qWbqY%3Ffeature%3Doembed

Whenever if you trying to install office 365 updated version and you keep getting error 30175-13 it means you haven’t installed previous office 365 properly or your previous office file got corrupt. and you might be seen below the image as an error.

Sometimes office won’t install due to several reasons like internet connectivity, dependencies for the product or any virus that affected your computer files etc. Then all you have to do a clean installation by removing traces of office program files existed from previous versions or by multiple office installation trails by you due to several errors.

Remove Temporary Files

In the process of installing office or any product on your windows machines, there are so many files gets created which are meant for temporary purpose for memory management,within application purposes like MDI etc.

Under normal conditions, these files are closed and deleted by Windows when you quit a Windows session. However, if you quit Windows in an irregular way (for example, restarting the computer or turning it off during an active Windows session) the files are not closed or deleted.

Click on windows start button + “R” to open the run command window.
Type “%temp%” and click on the enter button, this leads to a window with temp files and folders.
Select all (CTRL+A) “Shift + Delete” to remove permanently,

In some cases, Office installation may stop because of several reasons like slow internet, server issues etc. Then your machine creates some of the files required to office 365/2010/2016 product.

When you try to re-install this time, You may see issues like these types of error code 30145-16 and different series based on the reason for failure.

You have to delete these Office traces from the computer before trying the re-installation process.

Repair/Uninstall office program

For Windows 8 / Windows 8.1/10:-

Go to control panel from start button,
Select Programs and features there to reach a list of installed programs on your computer. (In windows 10 you can just type “programs and features in the Cortana search bar beside windows start logo)
From the list, search for Microsoft Office product and click on Change
A window will open like here showing Add, Repair, Remove options
Then proceed to with repair and wait for sometimes.Once the repair is successful you are ready to use Microsoft office product again.

IMPORTANT:. It’s impossible to uninstall office applications (word, excel, publisher etc) individually from total office product.The only way to uninstall an individual app is if you purchased it as a stand-alone version.

Installing Office Product

Once you have done the uninstallation part, now do a clean installation.

Login to your Microsoft office account www.office.com/signin
Go to your dashboard to see the product you purchased.
Select “Install Office “ option and then let it download, (you may see click Save, Run, Setup, or Save File depends on browser type, select “save” for future purpose)
Go to downloads in your computer and Double click on office setup file to install.

If the error code 30145-16 still persists then try an advanced registry fix if you are familiar with it.

Related issues to error code 30145-16 in Office 365, 2010/2013:

Pre-existing office installation files.
Tamp and logs files.
Microsoft Office file got corrupt.
The Office didn’t update fully it updated partially.
Windows Update not installed properly.