Microsoft Office 2021/19 is a great software for Windows 11/10 and I am guessing that quite a few of you may be using it on your system. This productivity suite contains many technologies in-built inside it and sometimes due to them an average computer has to suffer. If your facing these issues like the crashing of Office components or not running properly and freezing every now and then or if they only work in Safe Mode of Office, then technology named Hardware Graphics Acceleration may be the culprit behind this.
I found that many users having issues with the working of Office on your system are often advised to disable hardware graphics acceleration. Almost in all of the cases, disabling the hardware acceleration for graphics does the trick and solves issues for many. In this article, I’ll show you how to disable hardware acceleration of graphics using the UI and of course, using my favorite Registry Editor.
Turn off or Disable Hardware Graphics Acceleration in Office
1] Using UI
1. Open any Office app for example Word, and create a blank document, click FILE.
2. Next, click Options in the following screen:
3. Moving on, in the below-shown window, select Advanced in the left pane. Then in the right pane, scroll down and look Disable hardware graphics acceleration under the section Display. Check this option and click OK.
You may now close Office (Word) 2013 and reboot the machine. After restarting the system, you’ll find the issues you were facing in Office is resolved now.
2] Using Registry Editor
1. Press Windows Key + R combination, type put regedit in Run dialog box and hit Enter to open the Registry Editor.
2. In the left pane, navigate here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common
3. Firstly create a subkey to Common by right click over it and select New -> Key. Name this subkey as Graphics. In the right pane of Graphics subkey, create a new DWORD by right click on blank space and select New -> DWORD Value. Name the newly created DWORD as DisableHardwareAcceleration and double click on it to get this:
4. In the above-shown box, change the Value data from 0 to 1. Click OK. Close the Registry Editor and reboot the machine to make changes effective.
Let u know if doing this, helped you make Office run properly.
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