Microsoft Office – How to Remove Drive Q from Click-to-Run 2010

The slow response could be caused by add-ins.

To check this out, just turn off all of them. Here are the instructions for Word 2007:

1. While logged-in as Administrator, click on the Logo button (upper left corner).
2. Click on Word Options on the bottom right.
3. Select Add-ins in the left panel.
4. At the bottom of the window click on the Go button (Manage: COM Add-ins)
5. Uncheck all add-ins
6. Click on OK.
7. Exited and restart Word

If this solves the problem, you can turn back on add-ins that you would like to keep (one-by-one, just in case).

As a side remark: This will also save you some memory.

Response from Microsoft:

" We don't have any article\blog that says that it is not recommended to install Office 2013 along with Office 2010, but this article does states that:

You can install Office 2013 alongside Office 2010 or the 2007 Microsoft Office system on Windows 7-based or Windows 8-based computers. This configuration is supported. However, for the best experience when you start to use Office 2013, we recommend that you uninstall any earlier version of Office.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2810106 "

Basically, there is no reference to the issue of uninstalling Office 2010 on a machine which has both Office 2010 and Office 365 installed. Presumably this also applies to Office 2007, based on the above MS response.

In conclusion, it is advisable to not install Office 365 alongside Office 2010 (or 2007) if you need/would like to remove Office 2010 at a later date - without uninstalling both products and re-installing Office 365 or repairing the broken O365 installation.