visio startup starts many programs

[asc4john]

I have Visio 2003 and Office 2003 nothing has been added or changed in
over a year. Now for some reason every time I start Visio numerous
other programs start as well. This goes on until memory is exhausted,
Visio never actually starts. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Visio
twice now and still get the same behavior.
Does anyone know what is happening here?

 

[Paul Herber]

I have Visio 2003 and Office 2003 nothing has been added or changed in
over a year. Now for some reason every time I start Visio numerous
other programs start as well. This goes on until memory is exhausted,
Visio never actually starts. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Visio
twice now and still get the same behavior.
Does anyone know what is happening here?

I think what has happened here is that you have somehow managed to get
an entry in the Visio addins startup files path that shouldn't be
there.
The addins start up path has possibly been set to "c:\Program Files\"
or even to just c:.

You will need to use the registry editor.
You need to change key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Visio\Application\StartUpPath

I don't want to give you step by step instructions as RegEdit is a
potentially dangerous program. If you know how to use it then the
instructions above are sufficient, if not then get someone to do it
for you, it's less than 5 minutes work.

 

[asc4john]

I think what has happened here is that you have somehow managed to get
an entry in the Visio addins startup files path that shouldn't be
there.
The addins start up path has possibly been set to "c:\Program Files\"
or even to just c:.

You will need to use the registry editor.
You need to change key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Visio\Application\StartUpPath

I don't want to give you step by step instructions as RegEdit is a
potentially dangerous program. If you know how to use it then the
instructions above are sufficient, if not then get someone to do it
for you, it's less than 5 minutes work.

When I said nothing has changed, Well I'd moved a research folder into
the Visio startup path. Moved that folder and everything works now
Thank You

 

[Paul Herber]

When I said nothing has changed, Well I'd moved a research folder into
the Visio startup path. Moved that folder and everything works now
Thank You

Marvellous. You're welcome.