I've seen some people attribute it to early versions of Google
Desktop--although, I've experienced the problem without having that installed.

Gizmo63 wrote:

Hi all,

These well discussed phantom projects that remain even when the workbooks
are closed are a real pain.
Concensus seems to point to add-ins or VSTO items but here's the rub:
Corporately we all have the same build but no others have the same problem
so that's VSTO out of my equation.

Of the other folk with this problem are any of you using Microstrategy
Office, Microstrategy Desktop or FastExcel. Office wise the only thing I have
that no one else does is MSAccess.

These are the unique aspects to my pc.

FastExcel has been removed and the pc rebooted with no effect - could
something be left lurking?
Microstrategy is a pain to remove and reinstall so I'd like to leave this as
a last option.

Peter T's subroutine to kill of the phantoms has no effect either.

Need some help - these ghosts are getting to me!

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Dave Peterson