John,

Now that you've managed to get rid of Mr. Help <g> you ought to see if you can suss out the registry settings and see if something obvious exists where you can kill it dead forever. <g>

Best,

DD

>Well ... let's work up some numbers.......

>Time since last full install of Office 2000............:    93 days
>Number of times Clippy launched .......................:  1000 appx
>Number of times failed to launch.......................:  1000 appx
>Rough percentage of the time annoyed me enough to close: 60%
>
>I'd say the magic number lies between 600 and 1200... lol
>
>>I agree with David, umpteenth seems to be the magic number.  Just so I clear I'm up to about 20 closures.  How many more do you think I have to go?
>>
>>Pf
>>
>>>Just now I chose to Hide the stupid Office 2000 Assistant for the umpteenth time......and I got  the following dialog:
>>>
>>>"You have chosen to hide the Assistant several times ... would you like to permanently turn it off?"
>>>
>>>Yes!  Yes!  Whoo-hoo!!!!!

Best,


DD

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