Finally, a fix for Office ’97/Windows 7 UAC woes.

  • December 21, 2009 3:13 pm

Software from Microsoft is benefited by rather constant, frequent updates that keep your Windows software running the best that it possibly can. While I update/upgrade my hardware and software as often as I can, there are many out theme who fall more into the “casual use” category. For them, updating all the time isn’t necessarily that important.

With that said, users of Windows 7 whom installed Office ’97 (yes, that’s ’97 with a “9″) may have noticed as of late that editing UAC controls wasn’t working too well for you. Never fear, simple copy the code below into a fresh note in notepad and save as a .reg file. Save said file to your desktop then double click to install — selecting “allow/agree/yes” to the proceeding questions of course. An even more fitting solution: upgrade already. Office ’97 was old a full decade ago. Let’s keep with the times shall we?

I’m actually curious as to why or what would keep consumers from upgrading their now ancient Office ’97 installs. Any Office ’97 users care to chime in? Don’t worry, I won’t judge you…much…

**Copy and paste into Notepad, save as .reg file and then run.

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC5-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}]
@=”IOleDocument”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC5-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\NumMethods]
@=”6″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC5-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\ProxyStubClsid32]
@=”{A4A1A128-768F-41E0-BF75-E4FDDD701CBA}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC6-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}]
@=”IOleDocumentView”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC6-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\NumMethods]
@=”16″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC6-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\ProxyStubClsid32]
@=”{A4A1A128-768F-41E0-BF75-E4FDDD701CBA}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC7-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}]
@=”IOleDocumentSite”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC7-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\NumMethods]
@=”4″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC7-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\ProxyStubClsid32]
@=”{A4A1A128-768F-41E0-BF75-E4FDDD701CBA}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC8-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}]
@=”IEnumOleDocumentViews”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC8-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\NumMethods]
@=”7″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC8-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\ProxyStubClsid32]
@=”{A4A1A128-768F-41E0-BF75-E4FDDD701CBA}”

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC9-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\NumMethods]
@=”6″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCC9-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\ProxyStubClsid32]
@=”{A4A1A128-768F-41E0-BF75-E4FDDD701CBA}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCCA-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\NumMethods]
@=”5″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCCA-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\ProxyStubClsid32]
@=”{A4A1A128-768F-41E0-BF75-E4FDDD701CBA}”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCCB-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}]
@=”IOleCommandTarget”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCCB-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\NumMethods]
@=”5″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{B722BCCB-4E68-101B-A2BC-00AA00404770}\ProxyStubClsid32]
@=”{A4A1A128-768F-41E0-BF75-E4FDDD701CBA}”

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  • Sadhu

    I learned this adage in during 25 years of high-tech work in Silicon Valley: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Most of the fixes and upgrades that MS has done to the Office product line is in the category of bells and whistles. Nothing substantial. And often the bells and whistles slow things down. For me, anyway. Cases in point:

    - Styles
    - Numbering (still doesn’t work worth a darn, and often corrupts on long documents)
    - Reviewing (they took away the Accept/Reject dialog box)

    But Micro$oft MUST tweak things, in order to sell them as “latest and greatest”. So that Bill Gates can remain the richest man in the world. But as far as production work is concerned, I remain unconvinced, and annoyed.

    Also, my company uses a huge Access 97 application that I wrote and have maintained for 8 years. I tried running it under Office 2002 (no, not 2003), and I would have needed to re-write many pieces of code. In Ofc 2002 the VBA interface is more complicated and slower, but it does have more bells and whistles (that I never use and that slow me down).

    So the net result of upgrading to 2002 from 97 was a decrease in productivity (more complicated UI filled with gadgets I deactive, and needing costly programing for applications.)

    If it weren’t for the ease of programming with VBA, I’d be 100% an OOo user by now. (Instead of 85%)

  • Gordon

    I was trained in Office 97 prefer to use it as i know where everything is. I find Office 2007 hard to use and it is frustrating when I can’t find what I am looking for.

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