How to turn off "Microsoft Office Upload Center" in Office 2010

Anonymous
2012-01-07T18:34:27+00:00

As stated, I've recently installed office 2010 32-bit on Windows 7 UltSP1.  Now I have an orange icon in the tray which highlights as "Microsoft office Upload Center" and I see no way to disable this "mini-app"  Any ideas?  I'm sure there must be a way.

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Anonymous
2012-01-07T21:50:35+00:00

I found out how.  You can block its startup by unchecking it in msconfig> startup, the MSOSYNC entry,   Also it can be blocked in a registry edit:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Remove the "OfficeSyncProcess" DWord entry

Following a restart the system tray icon did not appear, nor do I see any process for it running.  This issue has been discussed in some previous posts related to Office 2010 integration wiht sharepoint and SkyDrive, apparently.  I had just not encountered it before having Office 2010 on a machine.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-04-23T07:58:42+00:00

    I have to agree, MS have made a big annoyance with this. A process I never use, for a feature I never use and I cannot switch it off. I do not want to have unused network applications sitting around waiting to upload my stuff to somewhere. It sounds like a security hole to me.

    For the record, I also agree that the solution of disabling this in MSCONFIG and editing the registry are not the solution. I had no MSOSYNC record in either and yet it was still starting.

    It is easy enough to kill the process with task manager, and I have renamed the exe file so I guess I will find out what happens next time I boot. It wouldn't surprise me if MS have found some other way to make this process launch though, the OS is unnecessarily complex and restrictive today by a very long mile and doig basic tasks is no longer the domain of the user or even the administrator. Give us back our OS and let us manage the thing.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-04-18T12:10:06+00:00

    Re:  file permissions

    Possibly this could help...

    http://www.wikihow.com/Change-File-Permissions-on-Windows-7

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    Jim Cone

    Portland, Oregon USA

    free & commercial excel programs (n/a xl2013)

    https://jumpshare.com/b/O5FC6LaBQ6U3UPXjOmX2

     

    Hi, thanks for your reply but I know how to change permissions. I simply do not understand what the poster meant by making the user the owner of the file. Who is the user? The administrator or a non-administrator account? It is badly worded and that is what I would like clarity on. Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-04-17T14:26:05+00:00

    Re:  file permissions

    Possibly this could help...

    http://www.wikihow.com/Change-File-Permissions-on-Windows-7

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    Jim Cone

    Portland, Oregon USA

    free & commercial excel programs (n/a xl2013)

    http://jmp.sh/K95N3ee

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-04-17T03:56:39+00:00

    Is anyone able to help please.

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