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George Valkov - 25 Oct 2006 12:36 GMT

I have installed Office 2007 beta refresh 2 and Adobe Acrobat 7, which added
startup items for all office applications. I have disabled macroses and I
receive like 10 warnings every time I start an office application.

How do I remove all macroses and startup items for all office programs?

How do I make sure that no one can add any more startup items?

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JeffP@Work - 25 Oct 2006 16:23 GMT

What are your security settings? If they are High you may wish to lower them
to Med.

First, if you need to make an Adobe doc as a copy of a word doc you don't
need the addobe Addin(s), just select Adobe as the printer it will prompt
you for a Save location....

Adobe usually places it's Addin's in two or three locations and is the
reason that the PDF icon may appear more than once on the Word menubar.

1) C:\Documents and Settings\"YourUserName"\Application
Data\Microsoft\Word\StartUp\
2) C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Startup

I have also seen the Addin in the "All Users" path. The YourUserName will
be the logged in user when Adobe was installed.

You can either delete these files or rename their extension to PDFMaker.DOG

Restarting Word should confirm that the macros are no longer referenced.

HTH

JeffP....

>I have installed Office 2007 beta refresh 2 and Adobe Acrobat 7, which
>added
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> How do I make sure that no one can add any more startup items?

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George Valkov - 25 Oct 2006 18:50 GMT

| What are your security settings? If they are High you may wish to lower them
| to Med.

I set them to Very High. I have paranoia. And I don`t want any 3rd party
add-ins. So setting it below Very High is out of the word.

| First, if you need to make an Adobe doc as a copy of a word doc you don't
| need the addobe Addin(s), just select Adobe as the printer it will prompt
| you for a Save location....

Yes, I have always used the PDF printer. I don`t like the new design in
Acrobat that adds toolbars in office applications. This is useless, but
every single product I hit on has the bad habbit to install a lot of code
running on my system. And if I don`t clean it, I will end up with like 60
processes runing in background and doing nothing. Just consuming about 500
MB and more.

| Adobe usually places it's Addin's in two or three locations and is the
| reason that the PDF icon may appear more than once on the Word menubar.
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| Restarting Word should confirm that the macros are no longer referenced.

All deleted and folders are now write-protected. This works fine for Office
2003 if I also clean some STARTUP folders in the Office installation
directory.

However there is no effect on Office 2007 beta refresh 2. There is a cure
for it too (in the registry):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Addins
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Addins
and so on.

This works for all Office 2007 products except for Visio. Any ideas how to
deal with it?

| >I have installed Office 2007 beta refresh 2 and Adobe Acrobat 7, which
| >added
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| > How do I make sure that no one can add any more startup items?

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