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Re: Office apps simply disappeared??
johnhenry17860 Wish I could be helpful but the problem just kind of self-solved if I recall. It's been a while. I strongly suspected it was that crazy Click2Run stuff, but ultimately if memory serves I had just ended up uninstalling (if present), logging into office.com and redownloading. Possibly picking 32 vs. 64bit could have some result, like in essence installing a "different" version had a way of making it work properly, but yeah, it's been so long now I can't specifically recall 😞53KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Office apps simply disappeared??
The problem had gone away on its own, I think if memory serves by reinstalling. I'm not running any enterprise-level management on this, all these situations I see are always with just M365 Business Standard. But I'm sure the interactivity with the back-end M365 platform is probably the same - I don't use InTune but I'm sure some form of MDM/EMM functionality is governing this stuff in the background, using default "stuff" from Microsoft. I suspect this type of issue is well known, but hard to track down anybody that knows about it. As backwards as that sounds. FWIW I've spun my wheels extensively on some tech issues, only to have finally caved and contacted tech support (usually I feel contacting 1st level tech support is a massive waste of time - usually it is, even on multiple contacts), but I sometimes find they just know what's what. Worth trying perhaps. Side note: turn off sleep. I don't know what it is with sleep modes and computers, but over the years, this whole functionality somehow leads to problems more than not. I don't know why, or what it is that doeds it, but it's like a 99.5% reliable thing, and as an IT tech, I of course witness the 0.5% of times when it causes mind-bogglingly stupid problems. I recommend never both with sleep modes.58KViews0likes0CommentsKB5004237 EXTREME system slowness
So far in two weeks, am experiencing two separate cases of these latest MS updates being installed and causing extreme slowdown on computers. In the first case, it ended up being that Cryptographic Services were being engaged and using CPU excessively, and upon investigating it turned out this CS was being called by the Windows Update process. Killing that CS service, then stopping WU from trying to install the [older] KB5004945 (which I think is the predecessor to KB5004237) and then erasing contents of :\windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download (the WU working cache folder for downloaded updates) got the computer working. Symptoms of that first incident were that the computer boots fine to the login screen, but as you enter the Windows login info, it then took 5 minutes or more just to get to the desktop, and from there, everything was extremely slow (5+ minutes to get Start menu, 5+ minutes to bring up Task Manager, etc., every.....single.....click....delayed reaction by several minutes. In the second incident from last week (July 13 2021), all the same symptoms of extreme slowness, but no attribution to CryptoGraphic Services. In that case, we restored from a full system image backup, system works. Allowed this latest KB5004237 to install, and the problem began again. However, it didn't install properly I guess - got no errors though - it hung there at Installing: 73% for a LONG time, so we got impatient and rebooted to either cancel or restart the update. It "finished" however, with the pre-boot blue screen stuff saying "getting Windows ready" etc. As any update would, and later in Check for Updates, there was nothing new found. But the problem then came back within a few minutes. FYI, booting to Safe Mode again worked fine, but of course WU doesn't run in Safe Mode so nothing useful to do there. Booted to the WinRE environment, did the Uninstall recent updates, picked the Quality update, and it removed successfully - and of course, no fix. No surprise there, when haave these tools ever done anything useful?? No restore points in System Restore found either. We're now restoring from that image backup again, and will disable WU for a month or so. Not sure why in my small world, with only two clients having this issue but where the issue is happening virtually identically on both their computers (computers are not at all the same models nor vendor), how is it that nobody else is reporting these problems. All I see are print problems, BSOD and such. I would think this problem would be common, or am I just that lucky? 🙂1.2KViews0likes0CommentsRe: How to get Word to open Maximized every time
The answer turned out to be that Word was open elsewhere in another virtual desktop (same computer, you know when you do Windows + Tab keys). That was Maximized as well, but apparently it just being open, prevented changes to the other window sizing from staying permanent. Doesn't make much sense, but basically, upon closing the other Word window, and then manipulating the remaining single Word window to the desired size, it then retained that and was properly sized upon re-opening. Glitchy behavior to be sure, but at least it's fixed.9.8KViews0likes0CommentsRe: How to get Word to open Maximized every time
Schnittlauch Thanks. Tired all those, no luck 🙂 I notice that when i close Word, I see it go from Maximized, to that half-screen/partial view for the flash of a moment before disappearing. I'm sure there's a registry setting for this somewhere. Or some sort of Read-Only setting maybe om a default template file or some such, I don't know.8.6KViews1like1CommentHow to get Word to open Maximized every time
This should be something simple but I find with the various Microsoft 365 updates, the desktop apps sometimes just get really goofy in their behavior. This is a simple thing, hopefully. When I open Word, it pops up in a half-maximized state, with the Editor screen open, pushing my actual document even further out of view. All I want is for Office apps to always open maximized, every time. To be clear, I never, ever, work on documents that are not maximized. No exceptions, it's just a habit, I always maximize every window I work in. So why must Word, Excel, etc., be so dumb about this? If I maximize a Word window, work on the file, and close it, at the very least it should remember my last view preference. But no, it just opens again in the non-maximized view. Been putting up with this for years, just kind of ready to smack something lolSolved9.4KViews2likes3Comments
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