MS Office 2013 refers to old file server

Question

I recently changed to new file server. After the old one was shutdown MS Office 2013 has become nearly unusable. Almost always when I click something on the Office program it freezes and goes to not responding state for many seconds.

When researching this problem I found out that in registry there are many (at least 50) references to files that are on the old file server and are therefor unavailable. I am guessing that this is cause of the problem.

There are registry keys such as these:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Reading Locations\Document 16
File Path    REG_SZ    \\oldfileserver\...\document.docx

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Security\Trusted Documents\TrustRecords
file://oldfileserver/.../document2.docx    REG_BINARY    7D60F998FF...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Excel\User MRU\AD_437B...\File MRU
Item 27    REG_SZ    [F00000000][T01D0...][O00000000]*\\oldfileserver\...\file.xls

Is there way to tell Office to clear all this references at once? If not should I delete these registry keys or edit them to point to the new file server?

My OS is Windows 7. The old file server was Windows Server 2008 and new on is Windows Server 2012.

Answer 1

Use CrapCleaner:

Under Applications, make sure you have:

• Windows > Recent Documents checked
• Applications > Office checked