Microsoft Office 2003 Clipart Really SLOW!!!

John, you can disable it using the Office ADM, find the option here:

User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Microsoft Clip Organizer and set the Hide Web Collections option to Enabled.

I could, but I am to lazy to do it :( Its sad I know, but maybe at summer I will do it when I have time to do it

Very helpful information here. But I am still having problems.

I have copied the Office XP Media CD to a network share that all users can read. I have run the command line as administrator on the client. As administrator, I can now find lots of clipart without going online. So far, so good.

But when I log in as an ordinary user, I can't find any clipart beyond the basic Office 2003 set. It still doesn't seem to be looking at the collections in the network share. Is this a permissions issue on the share or is it mandatory profiles causing this?????

OK, I've installed using the ADDLOCAL option instead and that appears to have fixed things for all users. Maybe a permissions thing then...??

Hi all, at our place I've just added http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/ into everyones favourites via group policy and told them to look there whenever they need clipart that's not in the normal (local) clipart folder. Does anyone else do this or am I a lazy tech? :wink:

Richard.

hah.. i just tell the kids to go to the website... i don't give them a link!!

Thought about that! Just thought to save getting mithered all the time I'd add it to favourites with Group Policy... pretty easy to do and saves loads of time. Just the way I likes it... :wink:

The problem we had was that when a whole class was looking for clip art, and thus going online, our Internet connection had a nervous breakdown and two or three machines would just appear to hang. If we just disabled web searching for clip art, then nobody found any clip art because Office 2003 doesn't come with very much as standard.

Anyway, I've fixed it thanks to all the information here. Have installed the Office XP media CD locally to clients, as it was quicker than fiddling with permissions! Found the relevant ADM template and addded it to our Office 2003 GPO, enabled Hide Web Collections (and ticked the box in the settings) and we are all sorted.

Thanks folks!

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Originally Posted by Dos_Box

Mandatory profiles are an NT 4.0 era method. AD Provides just as good configuration options. I've never used them and never had any problems. But the whole profile debate is one way to spark off an argument here. I suspect many have them as a legacy thing and have never got around to dropping them. Anyway, I digress....

I just setup a default user profile (non-mandatory) and let AD do the rest.

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Same here Dos_Box

Where is this 'hide web collections' bit in the ADM?
I cant find it, the nearest ive found is the one located here:
admin templates
MS Office 2003
Tools|Options|General|Service Options
Online Content
Online Content Options (disabled).

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Originally Posted by boomam

Where is this 'hide web collections' bit in the ADM?
I cant find it, the nearest ive found is the one located here:
admin templates
MS Office 2003
Tools|Options|General|Service Options
Online Content
Online Content Options (disabled).

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You may have to install an extra template from the Office 2003 resource kit (or even download the resource kit and set it up). The bit you need is called Gal11.adm. The link below is to the Microsoft article that explains what you need and how to do it.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/or...402401033.aspx

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Originally Posted by Andie

You may have to install an extra template from the Office 2003 resource kit (or even download the resource kit and set it up). The bit you need is called Gal11.adm. The link below is to the Microsoft article that explains what you need and how to do it.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/or...402401033.aspx

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Thanks.
Got the template and made a new GPO with it. :).