MS Office Starter 2010 Anomaly?

Greetings.

I'm a little disturbed by an oddity on a Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit machine, and I am hoping that y'all can clue me.

Background: My wife needed some work forms printed that were sent to her as .pub files. OpenOffice couldn't touch them, so I activated the MS Office Starter 2010 on this machine (I'm assuming it comes bundled with all Win 7 distros). Well, Starter 2010 couldn't handle the .pubs either - I wound up having to use an online converter. No problem.

Later, however, I noticed a new 'drive' addition in Windows Explorer (see thumbnail #1). It's a protected item - when I click on it, I get the following: 'Location is not available', 'Q:\ is not accessible', and 'Access is denied' (see thumbnail #2).

So, I pulled up Control Panel > Programs and Features, clicked on 'Microsoft Office Click-to-Run 2010', and I get the warning specified in thumbnail #3.

I've just begun Googling for this - so far, I've only found the basic info on Starter 2010 (that it's the replacement for MS Works, that it's limited in functionality, yada-yada).
It's not causing any problems at all, but I'm a Major Geek, and I hate seeing weird drives listed that I can't touch. Is this anything to be concerned about? If I do decide to get rid of the thing, will I lose any future rights as far as cranking up Starter again?

Any insights and suggestions will be appreciated. Thx in advance.
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This is caused by Microsoft's crappy Click to Run. Creates a virtual drive called Q: I was surprised by some of the responses especially the one that said do not worry about it. It seems it will stay until Office is removed.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com...l/thread/e16d1452-fed1-473f-a788-82683d1a0cdd

 

Here is some more information on this.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/office20...un-delivering-office-in-the-21st-century.aspx

 

Well, I'll be damned. "Solution is to not worry about it. Everything is fine." rolleyes

Thanks, tgell - should have known this was going to be a problem. I'll start working on getting rid of this thing. I'm assuming I can just uninstall Office, and the drive will go away, but who knows?