How do I Keep Office 2013 but Remove "Office Click-to-Run"?

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Eggz

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Just like the title says.

My Windows 8.1 Task manager shows this "Microsoft Office Click-to-Run" service frequently taking up a lot of resources, and it will make my SSD work at 100% for long periods of time. It also frequently takes up the full bandwidth of my internet. Both of these things occur without prompting me and impact my primary tasks. I don't care enough about small Office updates to continuously be taking such a performance hit, so I want to remove or disable the service while keeping my copy of Office 2013 Pro Plus. Is this possible? If so, how?
 
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I'm late to the party for the OP, but for anyone else (mostly noobs): while I haven't looked into uninstalling Office Click-to-Run, you can certainly disable it permanently in services. At least, in Windows 7. Start<Control Panel<Administrative tools<Services<Microsoft Office ClickToRun Service . Right click it, select properties, General Tab, Startup type. Pull down menu, select Disable

If its listed in Startup you can disable.
Windows Key plus X
Chose Task Manager.
Startup Tab
Click entry for Click to Run, select Disable.
Re-boot PC

 

Eggz

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Sadly, it's a member of neither the startup nor the uninstall lists. :-/

Anyone have another idea?
 

Does it have a separate tile on the Start Screen? If so, Rt click the Tile and choose 'Uninstall'

 

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I'm late to the party for the OP, but for anyone else (mostly noobs): while I haven't looked into uninstalling Office Click-to-Run, you can certainly disable it permanently in services. At least, in Windows 7. Start<Control Panel<Administrative tools<Services<Microsoft Office ClickToRun Service . Right click it, select properties, General Tab, Startup type. Pull down menu, select Disable
 
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Eggz

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I picked the solution without trying it, but the only assumption built in is that Click-to-Run is a service. If so, the solution will work.

I actually got it fixed by removing Office entirely and re installing it. Can't remember what I did exactly, and that is the reason I should have posted when I solved it. Next time! :p
 

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That works too. I just know that Office is a big program and some may not want to reinstall it- plus, some of us bought it online through Microsoft's student program, and it has a limit on how many times it can be reinstalled. As an add-on service, i figured Click-to-run is a probably pretty small in size and not worth the effort to do a total reinstall.Glad you got it solved!

 
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