Summary-

I don't wish to participate in Customer Experience Improvement Program - which registry value controls this?

Details-

Whenever you start any application which is part of the Office System 2003 suite, the irritating feedback manager can be seen in the system tray. Now, while opening its preferences and disabling it is possible (by hand), how can the same be done in the course of an unattended install?

Open...Word..at least that is what is being used for this post...then go to the tab at the top "Help" and find "Customer Feedback Options"...and then check the "No, I don't wish to Participate"

**edited** sorry misread your post...I have no anwser.....sorry

but it only takes a second..after its installed to 'remove' it.....can't be asking too much effort.

but it only takes a second..after its installed to 'remove' it

That is true, but I'd like it to happen automatically.

crahak here on the forums solved it nicely.

After you install MS Office 2003, there's an annoying tray icon that asks you if you want to take the survey and such (I hate it).

This gets rid of it nicely:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Internet]
"UseOnlineContent"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common]
"QMEnable"=dword:00000000

So thread fulfilled.

The only problem with this is that it is based on CURRENT_USER. Is there a more global solution?

Apply it through cmdlines - that will make it applicable to all new users created.

If I run it there, it will have been applied before Office 2003 is installed. Is this ok or will Office 2003 overwrite the values?

It is OK, office2k3 install doesn't over-write the values. That's the place to put it.

There is an option to disable this when building your transform (MST) file. It is buried somewhere in the page that offers hundreds of options to change. You have to look for it.

Thanks for the tip edbro - that looks like a better thing to do, than a registry tweak that applies to "Users" individually. Will check it out, and post back on how it goes.

It is hard to find.

Check the "Change Office User Settings" Page. Then, select "Microsoft Office 2003 (user)" - "Help" - "Privacy Settings" - "Enable Customer Experience Improvement Program"

Double click it - Select "Apply Changes" and unselect the check box.

Thanks for that, I am using a Transform file so this solution is better.

Oh good - you yourself said where to disable CEIP from. (I was yet to look into it, now I can directly do what you said). That's cool!

crahak here on the forums solved it nicely.

After you install MS Office 2003, there's an annoying tray icon that asks you if you want to take the survey and such (I hate it).

This gets rid of it nicely:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Internet]
"UseOnlineContent"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common]
"QMEnable"=dword:00000000

REGEDIT4 <--- Does this also belong there?

REGEDIT4 <--- Does this also belong there?

No, that's the header for a registry file.

You would have seen that any registry file would have to begin with an indicator, which will be one of the two:

REGEDIT4

For Win95/98 regtweaks. And,

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

For Win2k/XP/2k3 regtweaks.

So if you already have that header in your regtweaks file, you don't need this again. Otherwise, you can just copy/paste that section alongwith the header into a new text file, and it will be ready straightaway. But as mentioned above by edbro, the best way to have the CEIP pre-disabled would be to use the MST (transform) file.