Office: Extra Files in User Directory with Shared Windows

• Microsoft Office for Windows, version 4.0, 4.2, 4.2c, 4.3, 4.3c

SYMPTOMS

When you perform a Workstation installation of Microsoft Office on a computer running Windows from a server, up to 2.8 megabytes (MB) of extra files may be installed in your Windows directory. The groups of files that are installed include ODBC drivers (always installed) or system .DLLs (may be installed under certain conditions).

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem with the products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

The following information describes the types of files that are installed and discusses the conditions under which the .DLLs may be installed.

ODBC Drivers

This group includes all of the ODBC drivers that ship with Microsoft Office. These drivers will always be installed to your Windows directory when you install ODBC support. To avoid having these files installed to your directory, you can prevent ODBC drivers from being installed, so that ODBC functionality is NOT installed and is not available on the workstation.

For more information about preventing the ODBC drivers from being installed, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q117717
   TITLE     : ODBC Files Installed to User Directory with Shared Windows

System .DLLs

This group includes system .DLLs that must be added to Windows to provide support for new features such as OLE 2.0. These files will be installed to your local Windows directory if, during the Workstation installation, the Setup program is unable to locate the .DLLs in the shared Windows directory.

Setup will be unable to locate the .DLLs in the shared Windows directory if, during the original Administrative installation (SETUP /A) of Office, the following occurred:

• SETUP /A was not run under the shared installation of Windows (or the system administrator did not have full rights to the shared Windows directory on the server).

  -or-

• During the time of installation, another user was also running the shared installation of Windows.

   CTL3DV2  DLL      21,648 10-28-93  12:00a
   TTEMBED  DLL     102,912 10-28-93  12:00a
   SDM      DLL     103,904 10-28-93  12:00a
   COMMTB   DLL      40,784 10-28-93  12:00a
   MSTOOLBR DLL       8,752 10-28-93  12:00a
   SHARERES DLL      37,888 10-28-93  12:00a
   COMPOBJ  DLL     101,888 10-28-93  12:00a
   OLE2CONV DLL      57,328 10-28-93  12:00a
   OLE2     DLL     312,320 10-28-93  12:00a
   OLE2DISP DLL      90,112 10-28-93  12:00a
   OLE2NLS  DLL      99,184 10-28-93  12:00a
   OLE2PROX DLL      55,808 10-28-93  12:00a
   STORAGE  DLL     157,184 10-28-93  12:00a
   PUBOLE   DLL      78,928 10-28-93  12:00a
   MSJETDSP DLL      85,792 10-28-93  12:00a
   RED110   DLL     238,416 10-28-93  12:00a
   SIMADMIN DLL     160,080 10-28-93  12:00a
   SIMBA    DLL     469,904 10-28-93  12:00a
   XBS110   DLL     263,840 10-28-93  12:00a
   PDX110   DLL     189,168 10-28-93  12:00a
   ODBCINST DLL      82,704 10-28-93  12:00a
   ODBC     DLL      49,584 10-28-93  12:00a
        22 file(s)    2,808,128 bytes