[gregod]

Related: MS Office 2010 was/is available as "click-to-run" edition, based on a virtual streaming file system.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/office...

The tech/product behind it has its roots in game distribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_App-V

[permo-w]

is that the same "Office Click-to-Run" that I've had to disable running from start-up 15 times?

[pierrefermat1]

My god is that thing genuinely cancerous, the autoruns software helped me get rid of it for good

[permo-w]

the real problem here isn't office ctr, it's the fact that there are 10 different ways to run a third-party program from start-up, many of which are not only opt-out but opt-out somewhere deep in the mysteries of the regisphere