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Impossible to delete outlook add-ins
Hi,
I've being trying to delete several add-ins for Outlook for Office 365 Desktop, namely :
-Microsoft Outlook Social Connector / Outlook Social Connector 2013/2016
-Skype Meeting add-in for Outlook 2016
-Outlook Change Notifier
-Adobe PDF Maker
-ABBY Finereader
They are all deactivated, except Skype add-in.
I started Outlook with admin privilege, went to the options and deleted each add-in.
All went well, no error message, all add-ins were gone from the list of add-ins.
I close and restart Outlook... and all add-ins are back in place again!
I could not find any help online about this, hence my question.
Any idea about what I can do about this?
Thanks.
Jerome Lena You should be able to delete the registry keys for them... but if possible, either uninstall the software that added them or disable the addin in the software - otherwise it may add it back.
>-Microsoft Outlook Social Connector / Outlook Social Connector 2013/2016
Microsoft will be removing this in the coming weeks.
-Skype Meeting add-in for Outlook 2016
>-Outlook Change Notifier
iTunes installed this. Every update will likely reinstall it.
-Adobe PDF Maker
-ABBY Finereader
You can definitely remove the acrobat addin Control panel > Program & Features > select Acrobat then click Change > Modify. I don't have ABBY to check.
Honestly, if they are disabled I wouldn't spend a lot of time trying to remove them if you can't remove it through the app's installer (or remove the app.) But if you want to try deleting the registry - the addins are listed here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Addins
If installed for all user, they will be under the HKLM key instead.
Jerome Lena You should be able to delete the registry keys for them... but if possible, either uninstall the software that added them or disable the addin in the software - otherwise it may add it back.
>-Microsoft Outlook Social Connector / Outlook Social Connector 2013/2016
Microsoft will be removing this in the coming weeks.
-Skype Meeting add-in for Outlook 2016
>-Outlook Change Notifier
iTunes installed this. Every update will likely reinstall it.
-Adobe PDF Maker
-ABBY Finereader
You can definitely remove the acrobat addin Control panel > Program & Features > select Acrobat then click Change > Modify. I don't have ABBY to check.
Honestly, if they are disabled I wouldn't spend a lot of time trying to remove them if you can't remove it through the app's installer (or remove the app.) But if you want to try deleting the registry - the addins are listed here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Addins
If installed for all user, they will be under the HKLM key instead.
Diane_Poremsky_MVPthank you very much for your swift help! I will follow your advice and leave the inactive add-ins as they are - and update the registry manually for the iTunes add-in which is currently the only one that bring up an error message when Outook starts.
Take care!
