The Save My Settings Wizard allows users to back up their Microsoft® Office settings to a file or to a local file server.

 Note    The Save My Settings Wizard is the end-user name for the Office Profile Wizard, an administrator tool. For more information about what settings are preserved when you run these wizards, see Customizing User-defined Settings in the Microsoft Office 2003 Editions Resource Kit.

The Save My Settings Wizard is installed with the default installation of Microsoft Office 2003. If you do not want users to be able to use the Save My Settings Wizard, you can disable it during Setup.

Controlling the Save My Settings Wizard options

To use the Custom Installation Wizard to disable the Save My Settings Wizard in the Office installation, go to the Set Feature Installation States page and set the following feature to Not Available:

Office Tools\Save My Settings Wizard

When you deploy Office with this setting, the Save My Settings Wizard will not be available to your users. If you later want to make the wizard available, you can use the Custom Maintenance Wizard to add the Save My Settings Wizard again.

You can also set a default location (such as a specific location on your corporate network) to store users' settings files. To set the default storage location, open the Office11.adm administrative template in the Group Policy snap-in and select the following policy:

Microsoft Office 2003\Save My Settings Wizard\Default location to store settings file (OPS)

For more information about using policies to help control user options, see Using Group Policy to Deploy Office in the Microsoft Office 2003 Editions Resource Kit.