Opening Excel issue

[Shawn G.]

When I open Excel by dbl clicking a workbook, excel starts but no workbook, I
then have to goto file open and then it will come up. It worked just fine
before I ran this sub, Any way to fix this?????

Sub StoreExcelSettings()

Dim cbBar As CommandBar
Dim sBarNames As String
Dim objTemp As Object
Dim wkbTemp As Workbook

'Some properties require a workbook open, so create one
If ActiveWorkbook Is Nothing Then Set wkbTemp = Workbooks.Add

'Write a value to indicate that the settings have been stored.
SaveSetting gsREG_APP, gsREG_XL_ENV, "Stored", "Yes"

'Store the current Excel settings in the registry,
'for safe crash-recovery
With Application
SaveSetting gsREG_APP, gsREG_XL_ENV, "DisplayStatusBar",
CStr(.DisplayStatusBar)
SaveSetting gsREG_APP, gsREG_XL_ENV, "DisplayFormulaBar",
CStr(.DisplayFormulaBar)
SaveSetting gsREG_APP, gsREG_XL_ENV, "Calculation", CStr(.Calculation)
SaveSetting gsREG_APP, gsREG_XL_ENV, "IgnoreRemoteRequests",
CStr(.IgnoreRemoteRequests)
SaveSetting gsREG_APP, gsREG_XL_ENV, "Iteration", CStr(.Iteration)
SaveSetting gsREG_APP, gsREG_XL_ENV, "MaxIterations",
CStr(.MaxIterations)

'Which commandbars are visible
For Each cbBar In .CommandBars
If cbBar.Visible Then sBarNames = sBarNames & "," & cbBar.Name
Next
SaveSetting gsREG_APP, gsREG_XL_ENV, "VisibleCommandBars", sBarNames

'Special items for Excel 2000 and up
If Val(.Version) >= 9 Then
SaveSetting gsREG_APP, gsREG_XL_ENV, "ShowWindowsInTaskbar",
CStr(.ShowWindowsInTaskbar)
End If

'Special items for Excel 2002 and up
If Val(.Version) >= 10 Then
Set objTemp = .CommandBars
SaveSetting gsREG_APP, gsREG_XL_ENV, "DisableAskAQuestion",
CStr(objTemp.DisableAskAQuestionDropdown)
SaveSetting gsREG_APP, gsREG_XL_ENV, "AutoRecover",
CStr(.AutoRecover.Enabled)
End If
End With

If Not wkbTemp Is Nothing Then wkbTemp.Close False

End Sub

 

[Dave Peterson]

First, I'd guess it was just a coincidence--not caused by the code you posted.
But it could have been caused by the restoreexcelsettings sub that you didn't
paste.

This setting "IgnoreRemoteRequests" corresponds to:
Tools|options|general|ignore other applications

But since you're not changing it in this codem (you're only storing it in the
registry), this code isn't the problem. (But who knows what happens in the
other half of this code??)

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Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on
the file in windows explorer:

Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

--- or ---

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

 

[Shawn G.]

Found the answer,

Tools->Options->General uncheck Ingnore other Applications