What exactly does OfficeClickToRun.exe do?

Question

Good afternoon.

I know that the executable is included as part of Office 365. But can somebody tell me exactly what it does?

I notice that it is extremely resource-draining on one of my computers in particular. It's a W7-Home-64bit laptop

with 4GB RAM and 500GB hard drive. I have significantly more Office files on this computer than others. This

makes me wonder whether the OCTR binary is performing a scan of my drive and doing some kind

of processing for each file it finds.

The program appears to be driven by a service and some scheduled tasks. Assuming that it must be preserved for

normal O365 functionality, can I re-configure it somehow to be less invasive and, perhaps, to run on a far less frequent

basis?

Thanks in advance.

S

Answer 1

It checks for updates etc. Are you using office 2013 or 2016? Are all updates installed?

Answer 2

Run an Office repair then review the situation

Answer 3

Hi Slls1961,

Please check Huni's reply and feel free to let me know if you have further concerns.

Regards,

Leo