My brain must be mush. I thought I had not only asked this question, but that it had been answered, and the solution was and is a registry entry. Now I can’t find the post/entry, nor the registry entry that was the solution.
I want to stop Office from loading at Windows startup. It isn’t in the logical folders/places that one would think to look…at least not that I could find.
Ideas where I might find this solution again?
Update: I just found it!
REG ADD HKCU\Software\Classes\ms-officeapp\Shell\Open\Command /t REG_SZ /d rundll32
Changing the open command for this keyboard shortcut to rundll32 resolved the issue for me. Using an elevated cmd, run the following command:
REG ADD HKCU\Software\Classes\ms-officeapp\Shell\Open\Command /t REG_SZ /d rundll32
Hope someone besides me finds this useful.
Chuck Billow
