Visio 2010 Keeps Crashing–Remove "Send To Bluetooth" Add-in
Posted by Russell Wright on August 11, 2011
If you are running Visio 2010 on Windows 7 x64 and it keeps crashing, you might be experiencing the "Send to Bluetooth" add-in issue. To remove the add-in follow these steps.
- Start Visio as administrator by Shift-right clicking the Visio shortcut and select "Run as administrator."
- Select File | Options.
- Select Add-Ins from the links on the left of the Options dialog.
- Click the Go… button next to the Manage COM Add-ins drop-down list at the bottom of the Options dialog.
- Select the Send to Bluetooth add-in and click Remove.
Now maybe your Visio won’t keep crashing!
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13315sunilna said
Fantastic Suggestion, instructions does work, I asked so many IT experts, no one coul dresolve this, except the above coment.
Well Done.
Thank you for your help.
13315sunil
gdye said
Thanks for that, was driving me crazy with Visio crashing every 5 minutes,
Joe Anon said
Thanks – seems to work for me!
anonymous said
Thanks a lot ! It was driving me crazy as well !
AKSharePoint said
Reblogged this on Just a few SharePoint musings… and commented:
Man I need to remember this whenever I reinstall Visio. Thanks
Dan said
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
James said
Thank you, this eliminated visio crashing intermittently each time I attempted to save a file. Problem got worse as the size of the visio file increased.
Dave said
Cant get Visio 2010 on Win 7 to complete opening to remove Bluetooth add-in, can this be done through registry keys?
Cris said
I don’t have that plugin, however have 100% crash occurrences when editing shape formatting and clicking on drop-down menu there.
Andy said
Fantastic – thanks seems to have worked for me.
For win 7 & Vis 2010- to start Visio in Administrator mode – I had to rightclick on the Start/All programs/MSOffice/ Visio 2010 – choose properties / Compatibility Tab / Privilege Level / tick box to run as administrator.
Mike said
Wow, you’re great for helping. Word add-in manager would keep saying “must be an administrator to delete”. I was, but nothing worked. Thanks for being soooo SAVY.
Mike
Jeff said
Trying to follow these instructions, Visio crashes every time I click “go” after selecting “COM Add-ins”. Any suggestions?
Ziggy said
Wow, this is great! Those crashes drove me crazy. Thanks!!!!!
BTW, on Win7 / Visio2010 I had to do SHIFT + right click to see the Run as administrator option.
PJM said
Why do microsoft make it so hard to use their software !!
Tom said
So easy… entered “Visio keeps crashing” into Bing, followed first link, and found this solution all in about a minute.
Kirill said
so far this has been working. however you are, i will drive/fly over and give you a huge hug. visio really sucks, but this makes it work
Nalini said
this is fantastic… seems to be working… hats off to you.. our service desk people could not solve it…THANKS Soooooo Much
Lawrence said
Thanks. Worked as promised.