disable unwanted dialog boxes

[G. Holland]

Hello all,
I am using Word 2007. I am creating links to another document on the
Intranet Site, when I click the link I get a Microsoft Office dialog box that
says in part: "Some files can contain viruses or otherwise be harmful to your
computer...."

"Would you like to open this file?

"Yes" "Cancel"

How do I keep this dialog box from appearing?

Thanks for any help.

Gregg

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hello all,
I am using Word 2007. I am creating links to another document on the
Intranet Site, when I click the link I get a Microsoft Office dialog
box that says in part: "Some files can contain viruses or otherwise
be harmful to your computer...."

"Would you like to open this file?

"Yes" "Cancel"

How do I keep this dialog box from appearing?

Thanks for any help.

Gregg

Add the registry value described in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/829072, except that for Word
2007 the key to start at is either of these (version 12 instead of version
11):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[G. Holland]

Thanks, that is a big help.

Gregg

 

[G. Holland]

Add the registry value described in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/829072, except that for Word
2007 the key to start at is either of these (version 12 instead of version
11):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Jay,
I have to amend my first response. I went through the steps, and they did
not work for me. 2007 Office is a little different in regedit.
I also did the Method 1 if still receiving a warning message "Confirm after
download"option for the file type. I don't understand why it is using a WMF
file for the file type for the dialog box. That did not work as well.

Method 2, I could not find the EditFlags registry subkey.

Thanks for the response,
Gregg

 

[Jay Freedman]

Jay,
I have to amend my first response. I went through the steps, and they
did not work for me. 2007 Office is a little different in regedit.
I also did the Method 1 if still receiving a warning message "Confirm
after download"option for the file type. I don't understand why it is
using a WMF file for the file type for the dialog box. That did not
work as well.

Method 2, I could not find the EditFlags registry subkey.

Thanks for the response,
Gregg

Hi Gregg,

When you say you "went through the steps", are you referring to steps 1 to
11, starting with this?

1. Click Start, and then click Run.


If so, exactly how does your registry differ from what's described? Can you
locate the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common? Can
you create the Security subkey under it?

For Methods 1 and 2, you're supposed to substitute the type of file that
causes the warning for you, in place of the WMV type that the steps use as
an example. You shouldn't need either method at all for most file types --
what specific kinds of files are you linking to?

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[G. Holland]

Hi Gregg,

When you say you "went through the steps", are you referring to steps 1 to
11, starting with this?

1. Click Start, and then click Run.


If so, exactly how does your registry differ from what's described? Can you
locate the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common? Can
you create the Security subkey under it?

For Methods 1 and 2, you're supposed to substitute the type of file that
causes the warning for you, in place of the WMV type that the steps use as
an example. You shouldn't need either method at all for most file types --
what specific kinds of files are you linking to?

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.


Jay, I did create the Security subkey.

No I did not type the type of files I did not understand that step. The
types of files that are creating the dialog box are:

Word
PowerPoint
Excel

Probably others at some point. Now that I undeerstand that is for each file
type, I will try an redo that method.

The one registry that is different
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common

Gregg

 

[Jay Freedman]

No I did not type the type of files I did not understand that step. The
types of files that are creating the dialog box are:

Word
PowerPoint
Excel

Probably others at some point. Now that I undeerstand that is for each file
type, I will try an redo that method.

The one registry that is different
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common

Gregg

Hi Gregg,

Let me recap what your registry _should_ look like now: On the left side of the
regedit window, you should be able to click on the key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Security

(where you created the Security subkey yourself). When that's selected, the
right side of the regedit window should contain an item named (Default), type
REG_SZ, with the data value (value not set); and an item named
DisableHyperlinkWarning, type DWORD, with a data value of 0x00000001 (1).

Double-check the exact spelling of the key name and the value name, and the
value. If any of them aren't _exactly_ as described, edit them -- the spelling
is critical! (Capitalization does not count, though.)

When you're satisfied, close regedit and reboot. (The reboot may not be
necessary, but it tends to flush any cached values and other crud.) Then test
your hyperlinks again.

It should not be necessary to do anything with the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common because (as the
article says) changing one of the two keys is enough. You should also not need
to change any of the keys in Method 1 or Method 2 of the article, because the
document types you're getting messages for aren't the kind (such as TIF) that
should need it.