[solved] Disable OFV plugin for Office 2003

[thomasgg]

Is there a possibility to disable the OFV plugin for Office 2003.
The reason: If you install the plugin and try to open excel files there will be a huge delay in loading the files. Seems that this problem only occurs with Office 2003.

[Gerby]

Hi Thomas and welcome to the forum!

You can easily uninstall the "Microsoft Office File Validation Add-In". It is shown in the control panel's list of installed programs.

Greetings
Gerby

[thomasgg]

Hi Thomas and welcome to the forum!

You can easily uninstall the "Microsoft Office File Validation Add-In". It is shown in the control panel's list of installed programs.

Greetings
Gerby

Thanks for the welcome.
Sure you can remove the add-in. But you have to do this every time, after running the wsusoffline tool.

[Denniss]

It should not be installed if you deactivate the "install office file converter" option in the installer.
This does not affect updates for Office or an already installed file converter.

[thomasgg]

It should not be installed if you deactivate the "install office file converter" option in the installer.
This does not affect updates for Office or an already installed file converter.

Ah okay. Works perfect. Thanks.

[aker]

If you want, you can delete OFV file (in .\client\ofc\glb\) and add

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OFC

in .\exclude\ExcludeList-ofc.txt.

[Gerby]

Just a little addendum: The default settings for the Update Installer are defined in the UpdateInstaller.ini file. By editing the following line as shown you can avoid installing the OFV package (and the converters) by mistake.

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instofccnvs=Disabled

[harry]

The reason: If you install the plugin and try to open excel files there will be a huge delay in loading the files. Seems that this problem only occurs with Office 2003.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2553065

[just4fun73de]

Is it possible to install the converters but not the OFV ?

Thx.

Alex

[WSUSUpdateAdmin]

Yes.
Delete lines 959-969 in DoUpdate.cmd or avoid downloading by deleting line 2 in StaticDownloadLinks-ofc-glb.txt.
RTW