winword.exe

claire07

Would appreciate any help. I have Microsoft Office XP Professional on my Windows 7 laptop.

I suddenly seem to have a problem opening Word as each time I do I get a box appear headed User Account Control - Do you want to allow the following to make changes - winword.exe. If I click Yes it goes to Word.

I would just like to go back to Word opening directly. I've searched on the net and there seem some options but I am wary of fiddling with something I don't understand.

I was originally worried it was some sort of virus as I'd been trying to sort out changing a pdf document into Word and had been trying some of the free converters and this only happened afterwards but I've scanned and nothing was found.

G42

Try looking at this (Answer 2)

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-outlook/user-account-control-appears-whenever-i-start/e92a1e20-4e99-40a6-9eb7-808218f3db35?page=1

claire07

Thanks so much for that. I checked the properties of Word and Excel and the only difference was that run as administrator was ticked in Word but it was greyed out so I could not alter it.

So I tried again and was able to untick it in advanced settings and it worked. I really don't know what I did to cause it but am very grateful for your advice as I was scared to interfere in case I made things worse!

G42

Glad to hear you got it sorted out. We all do things like that from time to time.