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Question Oct 27th & Dec 1st 2020 MS Office 365 Auto Update CRAP HURTS Outlook]

Z15CAM

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Such that you can NOT View Images without Outlook Crashing.

Consider you are using MS OST Exchange Files and Click-to-Run from a GMail account.

Believe me, your OST File is NOT corrupt.


Work Off Line with all Virus App's disabled McAfee, MalwareBytes including Defender !


Run your Office "SETUP.EXE" installation and ReBoot

This creates a System Optimization File so you can run REPAIR.

Always - Insure your Virus App's are DISABLED and your are Off Line.

Then OPEN Program & Features a CLK MS Office/Change & Select REPAIR.

ReBoot

Open Outlook and you will get a Sign In Window - 'X' it down.

Go to File/Office Account/UpDate Options and click "Disable UpDates"

A yellow notice appears "Office UpDates - This Product will NOT be UpDated".

Close OutLook and ReBoot.

This will also preserve your Office Exchange OST file and Activation ;o)

NOW you can load your Anti-Virus apps and go Online.

Save for Defender complaining about Skype "Lync.exe" (Disable it in Add-Ons) Unless you Use Skype.

You can now run Disk Cleanup to include Delivery Optimized Files - ReBoot then run CCleaner to clean up the MESS

ReBoot and make a Registry BackUp.

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<<WARNING>> DO NOT ENABLE OFFICE AUTO-UPDATE for any version of OFFICE 365 until Microsoft has fixed this issue.

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Update:

I ran a test 3 times and each time the Updates caused Outlook to go wonky.

Keep in mind there are a lot of versions of Office 365 2019 Retail click-to-run with Exchange OST files and enabling Auto-Update may not affect your version of MS Office.

Check this MS 365 Office Site: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-history-microsoft365-apps-by-date

Now you know why I elected to go off line and disable my Antivirus apps to run this procedure as I DO NOT want my version of Office 365 (2019) to Auto-update while I'm working on it ;o)

Sincerely Users of Office 365 (2019) find my thread helpful - Forget all the Online Shit and particuliary DO NOT trust Microsoft advice.
 
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