Presumably you won't have whatever protection the update is supposed to guard against. I suspect the update will be reinstalled next time Windows runs its update schedule. To create & run the batch file, simply create a new text file using NotePad, copy the code lines to it and save it with a .bat extension (e.g. FixActiveX.bat), then double-click on the file in Windows Explorer. That's all there is to it - the batch file will delete some .exd files that cause the update to misbehave.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]