[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Glad you got it sorted!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"George" wrote in message
m...
Found it! It was MpOAV.dll, housed in C:\Program Files\Windows Defender.
I unregistered it, and Word docs open a lot faster now. I had completely
forgotten to look in Windows Defender.

Regards,
George


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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You clearly still have a .dll from some other AV app registered; it would
be worth your time to try to track it down.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"George" wrote in message
m...
Suzanne, thanks for explaining the /r switch.

Regarding the unwanted virus scanning, I unregistered officeav.dll,
rebooted, but it made no difference.

Oh well, guess I'll have to live with it.

Thanks again for replying.

George


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Reregistering Word won't affect any of the things you mentioned. All it
does is restore the file associations between Word and the .doc, .dot,
and some other file types so that when you double-click on one of these
files in Windows Explorer, Word is the application used to open it.

If you're getting a virus scan message despite disabling NAV's Office
Plug-in, it may be that you need a different approach:

Search for : officeav.dll

If you find it then go to Start/Run and run the following command:

regsvr32 /u "path\officeav.dll"

Here is a KB article that provides a few additional details. It does
not include information on Norton CE but it will contain additional
details on the unregister command if you need them:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=329820

This applies only to NAV, however. It may be that the "virus scan"
message is coming from some other AV app that was previously installed,
in which case you'll need to do some more detective work to find its
add-in and disable it.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"George" wrote in message
m...
Using Word 2002. From what I have read, the /r switch with
winword.exe is supposed to re-register Word in the registry. Question:
will such re-registering undo all the custom settings I presently have
in Word and take it back to the default settings, or will it not
affect the custom settings?

The reason for considering re-registering Word is that I continue to
have the problem of Word "requesting virus scan" every time I open a
document, including a new, blank document, even though the Office
Plug-in in Norton Antivirus is unchecked.

Thanks for any thoughts and comments.

George