Nagware and annoyance removers (and such)

[dmiranda]

Over the years I have used a number of annoyance removers. My two favorite ones have been splashkiller (http://www.digitallis.co.uk/pc/SplashKiller/index.html) and ptfb (https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/ptfb_(push_the_freakin_button).html). They have served me well, and have discovered a few tricks that may be of use and am willing to share, if needed. No rocket science.

Lately I have also been trying clickoff (https://web.archive.org/web/20150307210023/http://www.johanneshuebner.com/en/clickoff.shtml). I started looking at it because I have disabled com and com+ services, and while this haa not resulted in any significant problem, it has created an annoyance with MS Word 2007.

Specifically, every time I now open a document I get a box warning me "This document could not be registered. It will not be possible to create links from other documents to this document. (G:\...\whateverdocIhadopened...). Which is a lie, I can link files and all, it is just an annoyance resulting of com com+ being disabled.

Clickoff closes that box like a charm. But as I have thousands of word documents, that means I have to activate it for each document, with its particular path. No good.

Now, clickoff is supposed to allow you to work with wildcards, but I can't figure how to do it properly. Basically, I want to create a rule that closes word popups whenever the text is "This document could not be registered. It will not be possible to create links from other documents to this document" irrespective of path.

The question is: what wildcard should I use to achieve that? I have tried putting the base text "This document could not be registered. It will not be possible to create links from other documents to this document." in brackets, idem follow by a *. You name it, and still no luck.

Could any of you wildcard gurues lend a hand? Thanks if you can! Edited October 26, 2024 by dmiranda