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[ChrisGreaves]

Grrrrrrrr!

I was checking on my System restore Points and found nearly a dozen from the past ten days.

I have been running Office2003 and Office 2013 simultaneously.

When I switch to 2013 it takes about 30 seconds for Word to fire up; ghastly.
When I switch to 2003 I see that old familiar "installing stuff" dialog that's been around for years.

I gather from Yahoo answers that MS has decided to fill my hard drive with system restore points (and hence shuffle the really useful ones into oblivion).

Anyone else found this?

(signed) "Unbelievably cheesed-off" of Toronto.

[HansV]

Try the following:

Quit Word (both versions) if it is currently open.
Press Windows key+R on the keyboard to open the Run dialog.
Enter or copy/paste the following line:

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

Press Enter or click OK.
Repeat with

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

(11.0 = Office 2003, 15.0 = Office 2013)

If you have the same problem with Excel, repeat, but with Excel instead of Word:

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

and

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Excel\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

[ChrisGreaves]

Try the following:

Thanks Hans.
I had deleted Office2013 before I got around to trying your fix.
I ran the fix anyway, just to show willing (:stupidgrin:)
I’m about to rebuild my system from scratch (it helps to pass the time of day, and night), and I’ve pasted your fixes into my “Rebuild.doc” for future reference.
So; thanks again!