Comments on: Google Desktop

By: Jeff Bertram

Jeff Bertram — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:00:00 +0000

Same issue, same solution. Disabled .Net addins, resolved Device I/O errors. Frustrating.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Installing Microsoft Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 also triggers this issue. It happens with a very simple password protected macro like this.

Create empty UserForm1 and show it when workbook is opened.
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Private Sub Workbook_Open()
UserForm1.Show
End Sub
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So far, only solution is signing the VBA. Thanks, Deborah. Self-signed digital certificate works. However, once I use VBA editor, Excel pops up password prompt again and again when I close Excel.

By: Marnix Venema

Marnix Venema — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:50:00 +0000

I didn’t have google desktop installed, but was experiencing the same problem (device I/O error and duplicate VBA projects, followed by crash. Jeff Smith’s solution still worked for me though. I went to the Jeff’s suggested registry key, and looked for other loadbehaviour registry entry set to 3. Changed it to 2 and problem is solved. Wonderful, thanks Jeff!

By: Wolfgang_G

Wolfgang_G — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:40:00 +0000

Hi all,

I have the same issue with Excel 2007: I start an EXCEL workbook with VB-Application (DB connection), close the workbook and open it again IN THE SAME EXCEL instance.
1) The VB-application remains open after closing the workbook
2) I have 2 VB-applications open after opening the workbok again
3) The macro does not start when I open the workbook the second time
4) The workbook starts if I open the workbook in a second EXCEL instance

I do NOT have Google Desktop search or Live Office running

Thanks for any advice.

Kind reagrds
Wolfgang

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:53:00 +0000

As noted by Cole, removing the Office Live Add in fixes the problem. I did not see Cole's response until I did a search for 'office live add in password prompt', and found this thread again! It also appears to be reported at http://ask.officelive.com/workspace/qna/t/3113.aspx

By: Cole

Cole — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:04:00 +0000

I was having this issue until I removed the Microsoft Office Live Add-in. I have not had this problem once since that was removed.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:51:00 +0000

I am running into this problem now; no google desktop. Andrew’s solution did not work for me on 2007, throwing an error – something like ‘programmatic access to the VBE is not permitted”. I probably could fix that on my install of excel 2007, but I dont suspect code would fix it on other’s computers. running windows xp on a mac, if that makes any difference – and the problem exists if using the bootcamp partition by itself, or vmware from os x.

I removed the windows live search that was installed via windows update, and stopped folder sharing in vmware. if I find a solution, I’ll post back here!

By: samanco

samanco — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:06:00 +0000

Andrews workaround is a viable solution: The new relaese of office live creates the same problem as the google desktop search and it would appear other .net applications.

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:29:00 +0000

Thanks Ron,Frank,Andrew!!!I had same issue with CapIQ Addin and andrew's solution worked perfectly.

Thanks again!!!!!!
-Raj

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:48:00 +0000

I think I have a work-around that prevents the multiple dialog boxes on closing Excel.

It appears that the problem is somehow related to .net add-ins such as Google Desktop (I have also had a problem with CapitalIQ excel add-in). While others have suggested a registry fix (that in some cases seems to disable some of the functionality of the add-in), I have another solution. I noticed that the multiple password prompts only seemed to occur when I had not opened the Visual Basic Editor. I seems that opening the Visual Basic Editor somehow clears out the references to the closed workbooks, and eliminates the password prompt on closing Excel.

So I added the following code to the the "ThisWorkbook" object:

Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean)
If Not (Application.VBE.MainWindow.Visible) Then
Application.VBE.MainWindow.Visible = True
Application.VBE.MainWindow.Visible = False
End If
End Sub

Everything seems to work fine now.