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Donald Jacobs - 18 Dec 2004 21:20 GMT

I used to use WinME with Office 2000. When I'd open an excel file it
would be slow due to a request for a virus scan. There was a fix for
this that in made a change to the registry. It was "regsvr32 /u
c:\program files\norton antivirus\officeav.dll"

I am now using WinXP and the slow opening is again with me. When I
enter the command in the start/run window I get a response it cannot
find regsvr32.

Can anyone help me with this problem. I want to stop the virus scan on
open.

Thanks,
Don Jacobs

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Jim Rech - 19 Dec 2004 16:32 GMT

You definitely should have that program in your WINDOWS\system32 folder.
You might try entering the full path:

c:\WINDOWS\system32\regsvr32.exe /u c:\program files\norton
antivirus\officeav.dll

I assume the Norton program was installed on the new OS in the same path as
the old.

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>I used to use WinME with Office 2000. When I'd open an excel file it would
>be slow due to a request for a virus scan. There was a fix for this that
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> Thanks,
> Don Jacobs

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