OfficeIns – Repair Tool of the Week

04/01/2010
6 COMMENTS

OfficeIns is a small, portable and free application designed to display all of the installed add-ins for Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Access, Visio, and FrontPage. Once displayed, you have the ability enable/disable them and change how they start up.

Why would you want to do this? Because some applications will drop an addin into one of these programs and if there is some incompatibility, it can prevent one of the Office products from running. A good example would be an Internet Security application dropping an anti-spam/email-scanner addin into Microsoft Outlook.

In the last two computer repair jobs where I needed something like this, one of them was CA Antvirus’s addin for Outlook and it was causing Outlook to crash on startup. The other job was an error message that would always show up saying a DLL for a certain addin wasn’t found. OfficeIns can easily deal with both of these issues.

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Luther says:

04/01/2010 at 12:11

Excellent tool, this will come in handy to fix some of the same errors I’ve seen myself.

MI Computer Repair says:

04/01/2010 at 13:39

Thanks! This will definitely come in handy. I should’ve checked this out before leaving for an appointment this morning, actually.

Lisa says:

04/01/2010 at 20:55

Can’t wait to use it. I’m sick of all the addin this or addin that!

Computer Repairs Perth says:

04/03/2010 at 20:32

This is the second time in the past few weeks that a “repair tool of the week” has been posted and then a few days later I get a client with the exact problem.