Disable Disk Diagnostic

The Disk Diagnostic (part of Office Diagnostics) determines whether the computer's hard disk is experiencing any failures or creating problems for Office applications. For instance, a file necessary to run Office applications may be on a bad sector of the disk.

Supported on: At least Windows Vista

Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry PathSoftware\Policies\Microsoft\Office\Common\OffDiag
Value NameDisableDiskDiagnostic
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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