Hi Jim, The easiest and safest (it won't come back) way to deal with the language bar is to set a group policy to change the ACL on ctfmon.exe to remove execute rights. That way if another hotfix or office component comes along that re-enables the language bar, it still won't run. regards, Rick -- Ulrich Mack Quest Software Provision Networks Division On 3/13/08, Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That little gray window is also lots of times the Office Language bar. > Maddening! See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827323 > or change the following key as below from 0 to 3 > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CTF\LangBar] > "ShowStatus"=dword:00000003 > > >