Thanks for the help. I guess the unregistering helped, because both of my
problems have been solved. Thanks again Graham and Patrick.
"Patrick Schmid" wrote:
Hi Russell,
Anti-spyware software might use the same mechanism to link itself into
Word. You can try unregistering it, but I am not aware of Ad-Aware
causing the issue you are describing.
Do you have any old Word add-ins? Check your Program Files\Microsoft
Office\OFFICE11\Startup folder for any files with the extension .wll.
EndNote 7 might be a good candidate btw.
It is true that this message is generally triggered by an anti-virus
program. However, Word 2003 (and 2007 as well) has a built-in feature
macro security feature that runs a security check on legacy add-ins. The
message "Running virus scan..." is misleadingly displayed as well for
that check.
If you have any legacy add-in in that folder, move it out of the folder
and open Word again. If it opens fast now, you'll have to decide how
important the add-in is to you, as there is no way to switch off this
built-in macro security check.
Patrick Schmid
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http://pschmid.net
"Russell Johnson" wrote in
message :
I have the free version of AVG so I ran the command line, but Word still
takes forever to open. Do you have any idea why that is? Also I have
Ad-Aware, does that need to be unregistered? Thanks for the help/
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
The virus scan message comes not from Word but from linked anti-virus
software. Checking of Word/Office documents can usually be deselected in the
AV program e.g. in Norton AV by turning off its Office Plug-in.
With some versions of the Norton product it may be necessary to unregister
the calling DLL by running the following command line from Windows Start
Run
regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton antivirus\officeav.dll"
or
regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton systemworks\norton
antivirus\officeav.dll"
Other AV apps eg the popular free ediition of Grisoft's AVG antivirus
software, require similar treatment.
In this instance:
regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\avgoff2k.dll"
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Russell Johnson wrote:
Word 2003 takes forever to open, and then when opening a document, a
virus scan is run that takes 5 minutes or so. How do I fix this
problem, or at least disable the scan and make Word open faster. I
also have Excel and PowerPoint, and but they both open relatively
fast compared to Word.