Finally had a chance to install the RTM Win7 WDK and start dealing with Office Automated Code Review (OACR). I’ve had to deal with OACR before and never was a fan, but now that it’s an integrated part of my day to day life I find it more distracting than helpful. It’s not Prefast (sorry, Prefast) that I don’t like, it’s the being forced to deal with a contantly changing icon in my tray and the barrage of pop up balloons (complete with sound notifications!):
My immediate question is, of course, how do I make this go away? There are in fact a couple of reasonable options that you can use to get rid of it either permanently or temporarily.
If you want to remove it permanently, the first option is to follow the instructions described in this MSDN article. This will involve either editing your WDK build environment shortcuts or changing an oacr.ini file.
Alternatively, there is a way to disable OACR from the command line within a build environment. The first step is to turn OACR off for your builds, which is done using the particularly cryptic command oacr set off. This will cause OACR to be bypassed for subsequent builds, allowing you to avoid being pestered for anything you build in this window:
From here, if you want to also kill the tray icon you can execute oacr stop and OACR should go away completely. Note that the oacr set off command is important, if you only do oacr stop OACR will come right back the next time you invoke build.
