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by gregod 972 days ago
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

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is that the same "Office Click-to-Run" that I've had to disable running from start-up 15 times?
My god is that thing genuinely cancerous, the autoruns software helped me get rid of it for good
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