Outlook 2007: Disabling/Enabling Add-ins

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This describes how to re-enable/enable and disable add-ins in outlook. This is how to correct a program that installs an outlook plugin that you don’t use or want.


Disable/Enable Add-ins in Outlook 2007:

1. In Outlook 2007, go to Tools > Trust Center
2. Click on the Add-ins section
3. You will now see all active, non-active, and disabled add-ins. Click on the add-in you want to enable/disable and then click on the Go button towards the bottom.
4. This will then open up the COM add-ins page. You can then check/uncheck the add-ins you want to enabe or disable.

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36 Comments -


  1. Vishnu said on November 21, 2008

    Thanks for the info..

  2. Brad M said on November 26, 2008

    Excellent – Fixed the problem!
    Brad

  3. Carl-Erik said on February 18, 2009

    Excellent. Both the Plaxo plugin and the Google Sync software makes Outlook hang.

  4. Matthew said on May 7, 2009

    Thank-you, this solved my problem, I looked everywhere on the Internet and the PC to find this!

  5. Microsoft said on May 13, 2009

    thanks man, i tried thsi and works ;)

  6. Seamus O'Neill said on June 9, 2009

    Had removed Symantec Antivirus but kept getting an error message related to it when starting Outlook – this is now gone… – thanks for sharing the info, still getting to grips with Office 2007

  7. Luc Perreau said on July 15, 2009

    That helped after hours of searching. Thanks.

  8. Anonymous said on September 23, 2009

    Yeah did the above and I still get the message when I open outlook:

    The Add-In “Outlook Connector Extensions (msncon32.dll) cannot be loaded and has been disabled by outlook. Please contact the Add-In manufacturer for an update. Please uninstall the Add-In.

    Did you hear me thumping the keys!!! Going crazy, please help

  9. Daniel Dainty said on September 24, 2009

    @cecilymckellar

    When you click “Go” change the button before it to “COM Add-Ins” to “Exchange Client Add-Ins” or something like that. Look in there for it.

  10. Anonymous said on October 9, 2009

    when i open outlook than message come like Add-in . but i want to remove that message. so please kindly give me solution . Thank you

  11. Ramya said on November 19, 2009

    Thanks a lot 4 d information provided.

  12. rita lee said on November 27, 2009

    When I try to disable “Outlookaddin” in the tools>trust center>add-ins, the computer pop up says I have to be an administrator… but I am the only one who uses this computer and do not know how to show that I am the administrator so I can disable the add in.

  13. Anonymous said on December 9, 2009

    thanks it is very good

  14. Anonymous said on December 24, 2009

    Ruby

    I am using outlook 2007, I cant drag and drop a recipient from CC box to BCC or To box. When I drag from To/CC/BCC box to CC/BCC/To box it disapear. Please help me, I tried Add-in as above but till Not Help me solve it out. Thanks.

  15. Anonymous said on February 13, 2010

    hey, every time i open the outlook 2007 i got the following message ( the add-in AVG Extension” cannot be loaded and has been disable by outlook, please uninstall the add-in, and i try the above mentioned solution and it’s not working??

  16. CT said on March 1, 2010

    Ok, wtf.. When I go into the Trust Center > Add-ins, I don’t see any check/uncheck box by the add-in (nor does the picture you posted above show any disable/enable boxes) and I don’t see any option there to disable them. And yes, I’m admin on my machine. What’s the trick here?

  17. Roger said on March 5, 2010

    Thanks ! Microsoft’s way of thinking is getting weirdier each year.

  18. Roger said on March 5, 2010

    Hello, CT:

    You have to select the proper option in the “manage” dropdown below (I suggest you to check all the opts) and then click on the button; you’ll find there a list where you can uninstall as well as uncheck the plugin in trouble…

  19. Fran Kenfurter said on April 13, 2010

    Microsoft did us no favors by using the “GO” button. As if that means anything to anyone. GO what, GO where? Stupid.

    Should be right there > disable/enable/remove whatever.

    Sometimes updates to products are done just for the sake of it. Or by people that don’t actually use them. Ask the Vista development team about how that worked out. Biggest failure ever. Moving buttons here and there, tweaking the UI according to “studies of effectiveness”. Yeah, effective for who? Most of us having been using Windows for 20 years, I don’t need you tell me whats more effective! I lost more time farting around trying to figure out how to do simple stuff I used to be able to do in my sleep. Again, FAIL

  20. raja nakka said on April 28, 2010

    thanks…it helped me…

  21. billhutchison said on April 30, 2010

    Thanks for the help. I would not have thought to look in the trust centre.

    So that I could disable the plugin I was using I had to run the program as administrator since it was installed for all users. When I did that it worked like a charm.

    Thanks again.

  22. promytius said on May 30, 2010

    XobniRdo.dll does not exist after uninstall but Outlook insists it is trying to load it. It is not listed in the Add-ons or in the options other advanced.

  23. Quasimodo_4 said on June 22, 2010

    Thanks for the hint.
    My customer thanks you.

    Cheers,

    Quasimodo

  24. Joe said on July 9, 2010

    Thanks for the help!!

  25. Zeb said on July 16, 2010

    This was really helpful.. I’ve been getting “Microsoft Outlook Has Encountered a Problem and Needs to Close” error and this fixed the problem.

  26. Robertgrim said on September 22, 2010

    What are add on used for

  27. Geraintwilliams11 said on October 14, 2010

    Only works if outlook starts correctly. My outlook closes automatically since I installed an addin

  28. Von9m said on October 21, 2010

    Thanks for this. It solved my problem, too.

  29. aby said on March 13, 2011

    thanks a lot. helped solve the problem after searching the whole thing upside down.

  30. Joanne said on March 31, 2011

    Thanks this was a great help! I couldn’t figure out why it kept saying I had to be an administrator when my login is part of the administrator group.

  31. SilentSevent said on May 9, 2011

    Thanks. Turned out that disabling one of my addin’s solved my problem.

  32. Dalmo said on August 26, 2011

    I’m still having the same issues keeps asking for for admin permesion I can not start as admin

  33. Samantha said on September 5, 2011

    When I try to enable one note I receive an error message that this can only be done by administrator….I am the administrator and using the proper log in. Know what? All I want to do is be able to send email messages / contacts to a notebook in one note.

  34. ant said on September 14, 2011

    For those wondering about Administrator privileges to disable outlook add-ins.

    You need to right click on your outlook icon and run outlook as an administrator. Then you will be able to turn off Administrator Protected Add-ins

  35. vikas said on October 4, 2011

    how can i install “window search email indexer”in outlook 2007,plz help me out .
    i m not able to install this add-ins in outlook .

  36. Gaby said on November 22, 2011

    Thank you!!!

 

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