Re: Global setting to prevent Winword as outlook editor

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From: Greg Mansius [MSFT] (gregmans_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/03/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:46:40 -0500

You can disable Word as the editor via system policy. The .adm files for
Office are available in the Core Tools download from the Office Resource
Kit.

Which version of Office are you using?

Thanks, 

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"MCDONAMW" <mmcd79@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any way to disable word as the default mail editor on the
> "machine" level, as opposed to the profile (user) level?
>
> We have a Citrix server and the constant outlook usage by all of the
> users provokes multiple winword.exe processes that just hog way too
> much memory.  Is there a way to prevent this without going into every
> single profile and disabling it???
>
> Please tell me there is.  If not, then MS hasn't thought far enough
> into the fact that their products may be used on an application server
> and thought about the potential memory issues.
>
> Please let me know anything you know about this.
>
>
> fyi.. I know where the registry key is for this particular setting in
> the hkey_current_user node.  Unfortunately that doesn't solve my
> problem.  I need it on the global or machine level.  Thanks.

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