RE: Word installation keeps losing the PDFMaker

["Snowden, Jim @Cimage" <jims@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael 

I'm using win 2000 as the operating system (the XP is for the Office) so I
think the machine is always in multiuser mode. I haven't logged in as anyone
different in the last few months so I don't think it is that, but it is
suspicious it changed it to my local user settings rather than the standard
one. My user is an administrator for the machine. 

Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Lewis [mailto:mlewis@brandle.com.au] 
Sent: 20 March 2002 12:06
To: Snowden, Jim @Cimage; framers@omsys.com
Subject: RE: Word installation keeps losing the PDFMaker


Jim Snowden:
> ...I noticed for some reason the startup directory defined in Word had
been
> changed (don't remember doing it myself!) to
> "C:\Documents and Settings\jims\Application 
> Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP" (where jims is my username). I put a copy 
> of the PDFMAker.dot file in that local startup directory, restarted 
> Word and lo and behold the PDFMaker buttons were there OK. You can 
> find out the Word startup directory by going to Tool / Options, click 
> the File Location tab, and look for the value for "Startup".

I can't be confident of the XP details, but this looks suspiciously like the
kind of change that happens when you go from a single-user setup to a
(potentially) multi-user setup. The most obvious distinction is that in the
single-user case you don't have to log on; in the multi-user case (even if
you are actually the only user) you do. the multi-user setup is sometimes
called "having profiles enabled".

So: have you recently changed from single-user to multi-user?

Michael Lewis

Brandle Pty Limited, Sydney, Australia http://www.brandle.com.au

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