Microsoft KB Archive/115594

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Office: Extra Files in User Directory with Shared Windows

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Q115594

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Office for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.2, 4.2c, 4.3, 4.3c

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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:

"Q117717 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).

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

The following is a list of the files that could potentially be installed in your Windows directory:

  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 Keywords :

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