toolbars added in Outlook 2003

[nell]

I can't seem to get rid of toolbars in Outlook that get added in by programs such as Adobe and Smart Board software. Can anyone help?

 

[EAFiedler]

Hi nell

In Outlook 2003,
Tools > Customize > Toolbars tab
Uncheck the Toolbars you don't want to appear.

Or, right click on the Toolbar and uncheck it in the context menu.

Let us know if that works for you.

 

[nell]

That only gets rid of it for the moment. The next time you start Outlook, they're back.

 

[Surreal2]

Hi Nell...Outlook stores custom toolbar settings in a file named outcmd.dat.

Might be worth doing this:

Close Outlook and search your computer for outcmd.dat. You can delete it - if there are more than one delete them all - (or do what I did and rename it outcmd.old, just to be safe).

When you start Outlook again it will recreate the file and restore the 'default' settings. I've done this a few times to sort out toolbar problems.

If you have Adobe and Smart Board on the computer, I don't know whether they will be 'linked' to Outlook and will therefore recreate the toolbar buttons. You might look in the two programs and see if there are any options to uncheck the link with Outlook.

 

[EAFiedler]

If Surreal2's suggestion does not remove the Adobe PDF toolbar, see this link:

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2002sp3.htm#problems

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2002sp3.htm#acrobat

With Outlook closed:
To prevent the Acrobat PDFMaker COM Addin from loading, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\PDFMOutlook.PDFMOutlook
and change the LoadBehavior value from 3 to 2.
Restart Outlook.
The PDF functions will still be available in Word and the other Office programs.
Note that installing Acrobat updates may reset the registry key.

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Let us know what happens.

 

[nell]

I deleted the outcmd.dat file, and it came right back. I actually don't have Adobe installed at the moment, but there wasn't anything there about the SmartBoard software in my registry. The only thing listed was HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\Microsoft.VbaAddinForOutlook.1 and it's load behavior value was 9. I've looked through all the settings I can find in their software, and there isn't anything about not linking it to Outlook. I guess I can call the Smart Technologies people. It was irritating enough when Acrobat did it, but now this one has joined the "let's irritate Nell" bandwagon. I was hoping to find a fix for whoever decides to add to my toolbars without my permission next.