How do I turn off the end of support banner in office 2010 permanently? (Office 2010, Windows)

Anonymous
2020-07-17T12:35:10+00:00

Hi, 

I have a home and student edition of office 2010 that I am perfectly comfortable with. Every time I open the office suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), MS helpfully points out that support is ending and that I should upgrade to a newer version. Screenshot attached. 

I would like an exit from this persistent nagging and quasi privacy nightmare. Some regedit skills are in place and I can follow instructions when clearly given, even if they are complex in nature. 

Thanks 

Karthic 

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-08-06T00:08:35+00:00

    Same problem here. It's a nag screen for sure. Hey Microsoft, if I want to upgrade to Office 2019 and pay $149.99 for each of 3 PC's, I'll do that. But I don't want to. The 2010 version is good for all 3 PC's and is still functional and I want to keep it instead of paying $449.97 for 3 PC's. I'm sure there's a way to disable this irritating message. I tried tweaking the Trust Center settings for Message Bar and Privacy, but I still keep getting this annoying message. Someone please give us an answer that works instead of asking a zillion questions that is typical of this forum.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-02T03:03:29+00:00

    Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\15.0\ClickToRun

    New DWord key called: UpgradeAdvertised and set the value to '1' - problem solved. 

    Didn't work with value 0, did (appears to ...) work (suppressed spam) with value 1

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-02T02:40:35+00:00

    Thanks but I navigated to the registry, created a new key under Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\15.0\ClickToRun called UpgradeAdvertised and set the value to '0' - problem solved. 

    Came back to Win10 after maybe 10 years because we have a new laptop at home - it's agonizing, frustrating and nagging (try removing Cortana from your system for example).

    MS has well and truly lost the plot IMHO - Luckily have Linux on my work laptop so can make the system do what I want it to, when I want it to. 

    Thanks for the quick revert though - can see the community still vibrant, strong and responsive, which is great. 

    I tried this and it did not work. I've rebooted and I triple checked that my key is just like the screenshot. I have Windows 10 Pro V 1909, Build 18363.900. Does this method not work with Pro?

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-07-17T13:02:27+00:00

    Thanks but I navigated to the registry, created a new key under Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\15.0\ClickToRun called UpgradeAdvertised and set the value to '0' - problem solved. 

    Came back to Win10 after maybe 10 years because we have a new laptop at home - it's agonizing, frustrating and nagging (try removing Cortana from your system for example).

    MS has well and truly lost the plot IMHO - Luckily have Linux on my work laptop so can make the system do what I want it to, when I want it to. 

    Thanks for the quick revert though - can see the community still vibrant, strong and responsive, which is great. 

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-07-17T12:47:51+00:00

    Its a win setting not an Office setting, when Support ends so do any updates/bugfixes/security updates and MS will remove the backup install from their site

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