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Word 2007 configures for each new user in computer lab environment
I'm trying increase the speed at which Word 2007 (and PowerPoint) open for
users in our computer labs. Here is the problem: When Word (and PP) 2007 startup for the first time FOR EACH NEW USER, you get a message "configuring Microsoft office 2007..." and a progress bar that takes like 40-50 seconds to complete. This makes startup of Word very slow. In the past, we got around these issues on Office 2003 (and other programs like web browsers) by logging in as a €ťgeneric user€ť, opening all these applications and choosing our preferred settings (which involved checking boxes for those "do not show this again" type of messages), and then copying this €śgeneric€ť profile into the Default User profile, thus giving all new users the same pre-configured settings and getting around these startup message slow-downs. BUT, as weve found, this trick doesnt work for Word and PP 2007. Maybe the user settings for the new Word and PowerPoint dont live in each users profile, Im not sure. Regardless, it is annoying to have the most-used application take so long to start for each user. In our environment, we have hundreds of students logging into these machines every day. This means a new profile is created for each user at each login since we run delprof to keep the machines clean. So, even if a user sits through the "configuring Microsoft office 2007..." message once and happens to return to the same machine, it is likely that their profile will be deleted by the time they return again. |
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