Thanks for that. Never having had a problem with it I had not realised it
was necessary to edit the registry too. Guess this is a sort of secondary
bug with disabling the feature!
Terry
: Thanks for the help. I also found an excellent article in the Microsoft
: Knowlwedge Base at
:
http://www.support.microsoft.com/se...on&QuerySource=gsfxSearch_Query&srchExtraQry=
: Titled How To Turn Off the Speech Recognition and Handwriting Recognition
: Features in Office XP. This article goes a couple of steps beyond what you
: suggest.
:
:
: "TF" <terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom> wrote in message
: : > You should initiate Office Setup from the Control Panel, Add/Remove
: > Programs, select Office and choose Change. Then find the Alternative
Users
: > Input and choose the Not Available option. Setup with then remove the
: > add-in.
: >
: > Terry
: >
: >
: > : > :I used my Office CD to get to Office Setup, where I choose "Add or
: > Remove
: > : Features--Change which features are installed or remove specific
: > features."
: > :
: > : I looked at all the options under "Office Shared Features" and "Office
: > : Tools." I did not find "Speech Recognition" but I did find
"Alternative
: > User
: > : Input" which had two options under it: "Speech" and "Handwriting." I
: > removed
: > : both, restarted my computer, and got the same message: "Speech
: > Recognition
: > : requires a 400 MHz computer with 128 MB of memory."
: > :
: > : Can you tell me more specifically how to remove "Speech Recognition"?
: > :
: > :
: > :
: > :
: > : "TF" <terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom> wrote in message
: > : : > : > Run Office Setup and remove the Speech Recognition component.
: > : >
: > : > --
: > : > Terry Farrell - Word MVP
: > : >
http://word.mvps.org/
: > : >
: > : > : > : > :I am running Windows XP Professional on a Pentium II PC with a
350MGh
: > : > : processor. I am also running Microsoft Office XP.
: > : > :
: > : > : When I open any of the Office Suite programs, such as Word, I get
: > the
: > : > : message "Speech Recognition requires a 400 MHz computer with 128
MB
: > if
: > : > : memory."
: > : > :
: > : > : My computer has 256 MB of memory.
: > : > :
: > : > : I do not want to use Speech Recognition and would like to
eliminate
: > the
: > : > : message mention above. How can I keep this message from appearing
: > every
: > : > time
: > : > : I open Word or Excel or Access or Publisher, etc.?
: > : > :
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