'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Cheran — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:45:32 GMT

Thanks for this tip! That screen was really starting to bug me, and this fix works perfectly. One typo, on step 3, it should be "...point to New and select Key" instead of "DWORD (32-bit) Value".

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

vlekk — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:42:16 GMT

Thank you ... how annoying was that!

8-)

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Tripoli — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:16:17 GMT

This worked perfect for me. Thank God because I was about to go kill someone in IT.

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re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Joel — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:30:13 GMT

That worked perfectly, Aaron. Thank you!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

cormac — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:59:54 GMT

thanks you thank you thank you

it was making me crazy

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

hammerhead — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:20:35 GMT

THANK YOU!!! I've been experiencing this very issue since installing the update. My system has two accounts - one for use at the office, one for personal use at home. This has been aggravating to figure out. Your suggestion worked perfectly. No more nags.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Mirko — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:07:45 GMT

Thanks a lot! Worked for me on Win XP 64

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Matt — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:08:10 GMT

Thanks alot! this was becoming really annoying!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Mike — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:09:35 GMT

Thank you, that was driving me up the wall.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

cadderoni — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:02:00 GMT

Brilliant. Love it when workarounds/fixes are this easy (and work!)

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

kaiser money — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:00:34 GMT

How do I get this box to come back up? I accidentally hit close with the box checked and now can't figure out how to see this box again.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Aaron Rykhus — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:35:30 GMT

The only way you can get the box to come back up would be to change the registry DWORD entry 'FirstRunDontShow' to 0. You would need to edit the registry to do this: 1) Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe) 2) Drill down to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\OfficeLive 3) Doubleclick on FirstRunDontShow and change the 'Value data' box to 0.

I recommend creating a restore point before modifying the registry in case you accidentally mess something up. That way you could restore to the point before you modified the registry if something goes terribly wrong afterwards.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Joe — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:40:08 GMT

This isn't an idea solution. There are a lot of Office Live users out there who aren't IT literate and can do a lot of damage with editing the Registry.

What should happen is Microsoft releasing an update to download and fix the problem.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

cw — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:54:08 GMT

Do Microsoft actually test any software they develop?

Is it really acceptable to keep expecting users to hack their registry? I've just had to do this for my 70 year old father who surprisingly wasn't too keen on the idea.

Perhaps if M$ are incapable of vaguely testing their software releases they could at least provide a more user friendly tool than regedit?

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Aaron Rykhus — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:18:30 GMT

I agree and appreciate the feedback. My blog post on this is not an ideal solution. More of a "heads up". I wanted to get something out there now rather than later since I foresaw others running into it. It will take time to fix the add-in, get it posted on the web, and get an official article (KB) and an automated solution where someone doesn't have to edit or "hack" the registry. I wanted to get something out there for those who wanted a "quick fix".

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Jim — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:07:14 GMT

How do you apply this fix if the affected user is not an administrator and cannot edit the registry?

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

John Anderson — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:12:59 GMT

Nice one. It certainly alleviates the problem - it was becoming a royal pain! Thanks You.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Aaron Rykhus — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:59:14 GMT

A standard user by default can still modify HKEY_CURRENT_USER but none of the other HKEYs. There's also methods described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986 such as a registration entries (*.reg) file. If you don't need the add-in you could just uninstall it via Add or Remove Programs or disable the add-in.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Frank — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:11:31 GMT

Sweeeeeettt!!!! Thanks Aaron! I echo the sentiments from others. It would have taken me forever to get this resolved without your help.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

James T. — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:02:29 GMT

YEah so the Administrator installed the office live add in on all the computer, so he has to go to the registry of EVERY COMPUTER to get this to go away.

I may are never going to use this product now that I know Microsoft is a pop up virus. I know I had we had to opt in, but same with more Shareware that contained trojans.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Matt — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:11:16 GMT

UGH! THANK YOU!!!!! That was driving me insane!!!!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Black Diamond — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:30:54 GMT

Still broken for us after running this. The fix works if an administrator is signed in but not the user. Once the user signs back in the message comes back. The keys are added to the registry but it did not make any difference. I gave the user full rights to that section of the registry and it's still FUBAR. ;-)

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Aaron Rykhus — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:23:35 GMT

The user that has the problem needs to run Word, Excel, or PowerPoint once in order to create the registry entries under OfficeLive. You need to create OfficeLive under the HKCU hive for the users that have the issue. I'm working on getting an automated fix into a KB so hopefully this won't need to be a manual fix. You can just click on a button and fix it.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Black Diamond — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:23:27 GMT

The user really was signed in, we were using "Run As" to run regedit with administrator rights while the user was signed in as users do not have the ability to run regedit in our environment.

We had to enable their regedit rights and then just exported a working registry key containing the OfficeLive and imported it into a broken PC.

Hope that makes sense.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Jeremy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:28:29 GMT

Thank you so much. The pop up was a pain in the a$$!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

adman10 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:49:32 GMT

Thank you, this has been annoying the heck out of me.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

EM — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:29:33 GMT

I want to marry you and have your children. Oh, just remembered I'm a bloke. Oh well, thanks a lot instead.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Jeff — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:12:17 GMT

This also worked with Office 2003. Thanks a million to get rid of that blasted popup.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Carolyn — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:49:45 GMT

This worked in Word, but not Excel or PowerPoint. Help!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Aaron Rykhus — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:02:02 GMT

Interesting, I haven't seen that problem before. Curious if it's under the same user. If you don't use the Office Live add-in you can disable it in the Application Options under the Office Button, in the Add-ins section for Excel and PowerPoint:

Help article

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100341271033.aspx#19

Known error on Vista w/ UAC enabled 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE cannot be changed':

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100341271033.aspx#3

You can also uninstall the add-in under Programs and Features on Vista and Add or Remove Programs on Windows XP.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Geoff — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:25:53 GMT

Awesome. Killed it dead. Thanks much.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Ian — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:56:09 GMT

This fixed the message coming back but when I log on to my user account I still get an Explorer window open c:\Program Files\Microsoft containing a folder called Office Live...how do I get rid of this!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Jazzyp — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:33:06 GMT

Thanks m8 worked a charm!! so bloody annoying that message was!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Gibraltar — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:13:26 GMT

Same problem as others have posted. I updated the REG key under HKCU in the key listed in the fix, but the pop-up still won't go away. I also tried changing the add-in status under my 'user' account, but since it's a COM add-in, I can't modify it under this account.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

n/a — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:15:19 GMT

This worked great for me, thanks!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

daniel — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:46:02 GMT

I can't believe they haven't issued a fix for this! Massive FAIL microsoft.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

paul — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:54:13 GMT

THANK YOU SO MUCH! That was driving me bonkers.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

jere — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:08:58 GMT

Thanks a lot! Insanity was nearing..

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Lorrin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:17:14 GMT

I'm glad that this fix is working for others, but it is not working for us. We are using Windows XP Professional and MS Office 2003. The users have added the registry key using a VBScript I wrote. The OfficeLive key is now there, but the DWORDS are not being written. So I modified the script and the DWORDS are also being added with a value of 1. The splash screen still appears and my colleagues are very annoyed. What am I doing wrong?

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Aaron Rykhus — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:43:12 GMT

I don't think the DWORDs get added until you launch the app (Word, Excel, or PowerPoint) and close. Verify that, if it still doesn't work and the users don't need to upload or download files from Office Workspaces you can just uninstall the Office Live Add-in from Add or Remove Programs or disable the add-in under PowerPoint Options/Add-ins/COM Add-ins/Go...

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Lorrin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:01:43 GMT

As explained above, after creating the key, the DWORDS are not being written at all, even though we have opened and closed Word, Excel and PowerPoint several times. Even creating the DWORDS with my script - I can see them in the registry - doesn't help. We have been thinking about using OfficeLive, but if we have to put up with the splash screen every time we open an app, well, maybe we won't after all. Strange: The splash screen no longer appears on one colleague's computer, even though we have done everything the same on all computers. What makes her so special?

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Aaron Rykhus — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:12:02 GMT

Well, if there's an OfficeLive node under HKEY_CURRENT_USERS\Microsoft\Software then it should work once you start the app and close it. I just tried this on a Windows XP (x86) with Office 2003 machine fully patched and it writes the DWORDs with a standard user (member of the Users group).

You could run Process Monitor or RegMon to see if the add-in is trying to write the DWORDs, see if it works on a new admin user on the same box if you can.

I'm pretty limited on what kind of troubleshooting we can do on a blog. You might want to try posting something to the OfficeLive Workspace community but there's no guarentee of a response and the same rules apply there too, pretty limited, it's more of a Q & A:

http://workspace.officelive.com/Community

If you get stuck on this I'd suggest contacting our support services at either 800-MICROSOFT or http://support.microsoft.com/oas, if you open a support incident you'll get a guarenteed response.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Martin Kremer — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:11:53 GMT

Thanks for the tip. I was on the verge of uninstalling OfficeLive because of this problem.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Dan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:13:42 GMT

Couldn't have been easier, thanks for this

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Scott Capito — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:43:41 GMT

Thanks for the tip, this was really starting to get old ....

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Tolga — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:27:39 GMT

I kept waiting to receive a patch that would fix this, I mean come on, how annoying is that?? But your fix worked great! I should have looked for it long time ago. You would think the big MS would patch this retarded bug already. Great way to start their Office Live "UX". Way the go MS!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Ian — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:15:59 GMT

...when I log on to my user account I still get an Explorer window open 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft' containing a folder called Office Live...

I posted the above on 12 Mar after I'd succesfully applied the fix for the 'Getting started....' window problem; is anyone else getting this additional irritant and does anyone have a fix?

Re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

MDodddio — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:00:49 GMT

Worked like a charm. I thought it was only me! Oddly, it took me a few Google search attempts to find this article (I guess it's the only one out there).

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

tower defense — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:24:46 GMT

Your fix worked great!

I should have looked for it long time ago. You would think the big MS would patch this retarded bug already. Great way to start their Office Live "UX". Way the go MS!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Wadim — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:21:59 GMT

I too had this problem and asked MS Office Live Workspace Support what to do. They advised me as follows:

To resolve this problem, you need to first uninstall this update from your computer and then if required, install it again.

To uninstall the 'Microsoft Office Live Add-in' from your Windows Vista computer, do the following:

1. Click "Start", and then click "Control Panel".

2. Double-click "Programs and Features".

3. In the list of currently installed programs, select "Microsoft Office Live Add-in 1.3" and then click "Uninstall" or "Remove". If a dialog box appears, follow the instructions to remove the program.

4. Click "Yes" or "OK" to confirm that you want to remove the program.

In addition to removing 'Microsoft Office Live Add-in', you must remove any 'Office Live Updates' from your computer:

1. In the "Uninstall or change a program" dialog box, click "View installed updates" in the left pane.

2. In the list, select the updates that you want to uninstall.

3. Click "Uninstall". Follow the instructions to remove the updates

After uninstalling the 'Office Live Update' from your computer, restart your computer and re-install the 'Office Live Update'. To install the 'Office Live Update', please visit the link mentioned below:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=91FE0002-EB00-434B-8726-27911326D2B2&displaylang=en

I did as instructed and the problem disappeared.

wadim

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Aaron Rykhus — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:16:52 GMT

Thanks for sharing that. I think that works because you installed the Office Live Add-in under your user. The problem occurs for any user account who didn't install the add-in, so only the user who installs the add-in won't have the problem.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Wadim — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:03:55 GMT

I am sorry Aaron, I don't understand your explanation. It is my computer and I am the only one who installs anything on it. I was the user who installed the Add-in in the first place and I still got the problem. Live Workspace Support advised me to reinstall it, which I did and the problem disappeared.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Aaron Rykhus — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:16:51 GMT

Oh, sorry for the misunderstanding, I thought it was multiple users.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Michael Malott — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:55:32 GMT

Not sure if anyone mentioned this scenario. The original user account in which Office Live was installed on was deleted and no longer existed. I just followed the steps under my current account (had admin rights) and that solved the problem.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Justin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:07:26 GMT

Very much appreciated. Without people like you, people like me would be lost. Thanks!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Darrin — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:10:58 GMT

The MS patch doesn't always work on reboot or if you log into a different network.

Uninstall of windows live update seems to be the only solution

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Neil — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:29:45 GMT

Cheers - that's just rid me of this week's headache!

We do a lot of integration with Excel and the object wasn't unloading because of that stupid message.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Jesus Gonzales — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:50:13 GMT

Thanks, thanks, thanks!

This pop-up was turning me crazy

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

William W — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:13:57 GMT

Thanks for the info! I'm opening and closing Office apps almost every 5 minutes and it was driving me nuts!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

James Pepper — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:22:44 GMT

I am not about to go messing with my registry. I am using XP professional with the latest updates. This problem is with all of office not just word. Can I uninstall the update?

This problem is worse because all of a sudden out of nowhere Microsoft Word pops up and gives me this warning, without my initiating it. And it gives me this pop up screen. Why is Word doing this. It has some error message saying that word stopped unexpectantly and tells me it is recovering my files. I never had it on to start with! So what the hell is going on, this error started when I made the mistake of downloading this update.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

joe90 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:41:08 GMT

It worked for me as well

Thanks

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Aaron Rykhus — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:32:24 GMT

You don't need to modify the registry, open this URL http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9657450, it will fix the problem

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Bob — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:12:15 GMT

Thank you very much, it worked well!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Paul Marshall — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:47:38 GMT

Thanks for this... solution was just a google away.. I have suffered for 3 months with this!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Steve T — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:11:13 GMT

What a pain!! What were they thinking (or not!!)

That worked great so thanks for your help!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Derek — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:41:58 GMT

Thanks for the info! Saved me a LOT of time trying to figure out a fix myself.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

MrTypo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:48:39 GMT

Wow Thanks. that was getting on my nerve.

Quick and simple fix! THANKS!!!!!!

Microsoft folder with Office Live folder inside keeps popping up at start up of Windows

Jerry — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:56:12 GMT

Microsoft folder with Office Live folder inside keeps popping up at start up of Windows...how do I get this one to stop?

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Tim — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:29:52 GMT

Thanks alot! Solved the problem.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Curmudgeon — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:02:40 GMT

Thanks;

There's no nuisance like MS nuisance.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

KPR — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:51:12 GMT

I just uninstalled the Office Live Add-In from Control Pannel-Add Remove program. And the popup is gone.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

howy61 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:16:27 GMT

Amazing MS still has not done anything about this yet.

FYI for the less technical, on Step #4, the name you need to enter is in the Microsoft list not the actual default key values.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

rupe — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:53:08 GMT

Thanks. This popup was really annoying and its gone now.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

mangala — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:51:36 GMT

Thanks for the tip much appreciated. This fix got rid of a very annoying popup.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Johan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:09:13 GMT

Thanks, it was soooo annoying.

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

sux0r — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:59:51 GMT

Microsoft's software keeps on getting better and better...ugh

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

CSE — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:43:41 GMT

Thank you so much for the solution and the relief! Whew!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:34:20 GMT

Thanks a bunch for the fix. That pop up was such a pain

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Henry — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:06:02 GMT

Thanks so much...regedit solution worked like a champ!

re: 'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Sam — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:39:43 GMT

Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much... That message was sooo annoying..