word & excel load automatically during login

[romdos]

am troubleshooting my mom's machine. she's running xp home, office 2000. if
i open the task manager immediately after logging in i see that winword has
started somehow tho' it never opens a window. it exits also on its own; just
before or just after excel does the same (task manager shows it starting,
then it exits without ever opening a window). there is nothing in her
startup folder, she doesn't use the office toolbar, i find no entries for
office using msconfig, or looking in the registry under HKLM/.../Run. is
this normal behaviour for office programs, or is there some config item i
missed?

thanx

 

[Gyorgy Moldova [MCSE+I, MVP]]

Hi

I guess some other applications launch word/excel which start with the
computer. For example, ActiveSync may launch Outlook which may launch Word
if you use it as the email editor.

 

[romdos]

thanx, i will check that, but to the best of my knowledge she does not use
any synchcronization software. she uses outlook express, configured (i
think) to use word as its editor. oe does not load at startup tho', and i
don't see why any of this should call excel. the machine boots slowly
enough as it is, and i would like to find where to stop word and excel from
doing this startup stuff if it isn't 100% necessary, as she doesn't use
either program much of the time (well, word as oe's editor).

 

[romdos]

okay, found it. there's some ocr software loaded by the scanner driver
(mom's got a canon scanner), that has something called "direct ocr" and was
configured to work with word and excel (something it must have done on it's
own during the scanner install). i removed these two entries from the ocr
config, and no more word or excel during bootup/login.

thanx for pointing me in the right direction.