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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / January 2008Will disabling Windows Contacts / Calendar affect Outlook Contacts
Hello all, My understanding is that there ARE ways in the registry of disabling / turning off some of the Vista components that are outmoded by an install of MS Office, such as Calendar and Contacts. For Calendar, for instance, you browse to... HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Windows ...and create a DWORD value called TurnOffWinCal (for WinCal.exe), and set it to 1. There's probably a similar way to disable Contacts, but I may have to wade through the subfolders of Windows\Winsxs in order to find the name of the EXE. The question is, has Office 2007 been built in such a way that Contacts or Business Contact Manager in Outlook 2007 sit atop the preexisting Windows Contacts component of Vista? Or can Contacts be safely disabled without consequence to the corresponding Outlook components? The same question applies to Windows Calendar.... Best wishes, a.k.a. Outlook has nothing to do with either Windows Contacts or Windows Calendar. It is not clear from your post what you want to accomplish, nor why you think you need to edit the registry to do so. Outlook will handle these tasks by default unless you set your Default Programs otherwise.  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > > Hello all, [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > a.k.a. Russ, that's precisely the point. I want to get rid of Windows Contacts & Windows Calendar, because they become superfluous when Outlook is installed. Unfortunately, there's no other way to do so unless you go into the registry -- in Vista there's no longer the sysoc.INF file edit as there was in XP that would "reveal" these components to Remove Programs so that they can be removed more easily. > Outlook has nothing to do with either Windows Contacts or Windows Calendar. > It is not clear from your post what you want to accomplish, nor why you [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > > > a.k.a. Why do you need to remove a core component of the OS? If for some reason you think you really need to, you should ask in a Vista group, not an Outlook group. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > > Russ, that's precisely the point. I want to get rid of Windows Contacts & [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] >> > >> > a.k.a. Russ, Not to sound peevish, as you are free to disagree about these things, but to many people, Windows Calendar, Windows Contacts, WordPad, and a dozen other components are bloat once MS Office is installed. I might make an exception for Windows Mail, simply because it's a good newsgroup reader, but even there I have doubts: If you look in the registry entry for Windows Mail in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, it has a subkey called "Outlook NewsReader," which could suggest that MS has finally put the superior newsreader functionality that was in the old Outlook Express (now Windows Mail) into Outlook 2007 itself, in which case, Windows Mail is certainly superfluous too. You've heard this a million times, and it shouldn't be a surprise to get a question like this: The apps mentioned above aren't "core" components of Windows. They're "redundant" components, and it's frankly very annoying that MS has paternalistic practices like preventing users from uninstalling these redundant components. It makes even less sense when MS itself is the provider for the replacement apps found in Office. Anyway, enough nit-picking. Yes, I'll take this to the Vista forum. Your first post answered the question amply, so thanks again. a.k.a. > Why do you need to remove a core component of the OS? If for some reason you > think you really need to, you should ask in a Vista group, not an Outlook [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > >> > > >> > a.k.a. What you are attempting is still inadvisable. These Windows apps add trivially to whatever "bloat" you imagine exists. While they may not be core componenents, they are in fact integral components of the OS, and many other apps do have dependencies on them. In the past Outlook has shared many undocumented dependencies with Outlook Express. We have been told of no such dependencies in Outlook 2007, but that doesn't mean that none exists. Microsoft never documents those things. To my knowledge no one has felt the need to be our guinea pig and disable those functions and find out. So let us know what happens. No, Outlook 2007 has no news reader capability. No version of Outlook ever will. Outlook will continue to call whatever news reader you designate as your default. But that does not mean you have to keep Windows Mail as your news reader. There are many better news readers. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > > Russ, [quoted text clipped - 94 lines] >> >> > >> >> > a.k.a. Russ, I just realized that vLite will create a clean install disc that removes these components, and it's very good at warning of known dependencies. I'll check in the vLite forums, but didn't see any conflicts mentioned when I made a test disc yesterday. It requires a clean install, though, which is something of a chore. Lenovo says the same thing about the supposed dependencies surrounding its OEM preload, and then it issues the Base Software Administrator on the Q.T., which allows you to create an installation without these preload components. Besides, in Server 2008, which is the Vista OS for all intents and purposes, Calendar, Contacts and Mail are all disabled by default, though you have the option of turning them on. If I run into any problems, I'll be the first to acknowledge the warning you gave. a.k.a. > What you are attempting is still inadvisable. These Windows apps add > trivially to whatever "bloat" you imagine exists. While they may not be core [quoted text clipped - 107 lines] > >> >> > > >> >> > a.k.a. |
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