Unwanted auto load of drawings and Undo and Redo buttons greyed ou

[phn]

Each time I start Visio (2007), the system automatically loads two drawings
(drawing1 and drawing2) and the Undo and Redu buttons are greyed out.
The drawings cannot be found on the filesystem, but were created by me
somewhere in the past.
Does someone have a suggestion on the cause of this behavior?

Thanks, Piet

 

[Paul Herber]

Each time I start Visio (2007), the system automatically loads two drawings
(drawing1 and drawing2) and the Undo and Redu buttons are greyed out.
The drawings cannot be found on the filesystem, but were created by me
somewhere in the past.
Does someone have a suggestion on the cause of this behavior?

Try saving these two documents (use some junk file name), close them
and then reopen Visio.

 

[phn]

Thanks Paul,

I tried your suggestion, but it does not help.

Piet

 

[WapperDude]

Just a guess -- corrupt registry entries? Have no idea what to look for,
though.

 

[Paul Herber]

Just a guess -- corrupt registry entries? Have no idea what to look for,
though.

I'm wondering if it's something to do with the autorecovery.

 

[phn]

I found the solution in another similar topic in the discussion group. I add
Paul's reply to the current one. Piet
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I was having the same problem. This blog article provided the fix for me:

http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2008/03/18/extra-drawings-opening-on-visio-launch.aspx

(i've taken the liberty of posting the text in case the blog
disappears. The MSDN blog that points to the above blog has gone ...)

Extra drawings opening on Visio launch

This situation has come up frequently enough in the newsgroups that
the solution should be widely circulated:

When Visio crashes, it will often restart and recover the document you
were working on. This is generally quite helpful, but sometimes Visio
doesn't know when to stop. Sometimes Visio will continue to recover
that document and show it to you every time you launch Visio. This can
be frustrating, but there is a solution.

Close Visio. Then look in the folder "%userprofile%\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Visio" using Windows Explorer.
Some of the folders in the path are hidden, but you can usually paste
the path found between the quotation marks directly into the address
bar and press Enter. Now find the file autorecover.ini and delete it.
The recovered documents should stop reappearing when Visio is
launched.