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[solved] Disable OFV plugin for Office 2003

PostPosted: 26.08.2011, 12:37
by 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.

Re: Disable OFV plugin for Office 2003

PostPosted: 26.08.2011, 12:51
by 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

Re: Disable OFV plugin for Office 2003

PostPosted: 26.08.2011, 13:00
by thomasgg
Gerby wrote: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.

Re: Disable OFV plugin for Office 2003

PostPosted: 26.08.2011, 13:14
by 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.

Re: Disable OFV plugin for Office 2003

PostPosted: 26.08.2011, 13:28
by thomasgg
Denniss wrote: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.

Re: Disable OFV plugin for Office 2003

PostPosted: 26.08.2011, 13:32
by 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.

Re: Disable OFV plugin for Office 2003

PostPosted: 26.08.2011, 13:36
by 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

Re: Disable OFV plugin for Office 2003

PostPosted: 14.09.2011, 19:42
by harry
thomasgg wrote: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.

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

Re: Disable OFV plugin for Office 2003

PostPosted: 11.10.2011, 12:51
by just4fun73de
Is it possible to install the converters but not the OFV ?

Thx.

Alex

Re: Disable OFV plugin for Office 2003

PostPosted: 11.10.2011, 13:40
by WSUSUpdateAdmin
Yes.
Delete lines 959-969 in DoUpdate.cmd or avoid downloading by deleting line 2 in StaticDownloadLinks-ofc-glb.txt.
RTW