[George[_2_]]

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

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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.

--
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

[George[_2_]]

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
...
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.

--
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

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You clearly still have a .dll from some other AV app registered; it would be
worth your time to try to track it down.

--
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
...
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.

--
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

[Graham Mayor]

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\AVG7\avgoff2k.dll"

Office MVP Beth Melton recently reported her discovery that "If there are
any WLL add-ins in the Startup folders they will trigger this message even
if the user doesn't have any type of virus scanner enabled. Apparently, MS
is using the virus scanning engine to check for macros in WLL files and as a
result it triggers the message. Note other than checking for macros it isn't
actually performing a virus scan....One add-in I know of that still uses a
WLL is EndNote." So you might check your Word and Office Startup folders for
..wll files.


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



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


"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
...
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.

--
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

[George[_2_]]

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
...
You clearly still have a .dll from some other AV app registered;
it would be worth your time to try to track it down.

--
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
...
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.

--
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

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Glad you got it sorted!

--
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
...
You clearly still have a .dll from some other AV app registered; it would
be worth your time to try to track it down.

--
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
...
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.

--
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