{"id":903,"date":"2009-06-07T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T06:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=903"},"modified":"2021-05-24T20:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T14:57:47","slug":"fix-cannot-change-connected-state-of-office-add-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/fix-cannot-change-connected-state-of-office-add-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix: Cannot Change the Connected State of Registered Office Add-Ins"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you attempt to enable or disable an Office Add-In, the following error message may be displayed and the Add-In state does not change.<\/p>\n

The connected state of Office Add-Ins registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE cannot be changed.<\/pre>\n
This happens if the Office application you’re using is running under standard privileges and hence cannot modify the Add-In startup state in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry hive.<\/p>\n
To resolve the problem, start the Office application elevated. To do so, right-click on the Office application shortcut and choose Run as Administrator<\/b>. Then open the Add-Ins dialog to enable or disable the registered Office Add-In.<\/p>\n
Using the Registry Editor<\/h4>\n
Alternately, you can change the Add-In startup state manually via the registry, by navigating to the Add-In registry location and modifying the LoadBehavior<\/b> DWORD value manually.<\/p>\n
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Office\\Word\\Addins<\/pre>\n
Similarly, for Microsoft Excel:<\/p>\n
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Office\\Excel\\Addins<\/pre>\n
To disable the Add-In, set the data for LoadBehavior<\/b> to 2.<\/p>\n
Third-party tool:<\/strong>\u00a0OfficeIns<\/a> (Office Add-ins Manager) from Nirsoft is a small utility that displays the details of all installed Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and so on…) add-ins on your computer, and allows you to disable\/enable them.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When you attempt to enable or disable an Office Add-In, the following error message may be displayed and the Add-In state does not change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[345],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office","tag-office"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8637,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/cant-add-program-to-open-with-menu-list-windows\/","url_meta":{"origin":903,"position":0},"title":"[Fix] Cannot Add a Program to Open with List in Windows","author":"Ramesh","date":"April 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"When you right-click on a file, select \"Open with\", click \"choose another app\" and select a program using the Browse dialog, the program may fail to appear in the \"Open With\" dialog. 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