First Launch

What Deck does the first time it runs - initial scan, the Original profile, and the main window

What happens on first launch

The first time Deck starts, the Core daemon builds an inventory of your Office add-ins:

1. Scans the Windows Registry for installed COM and VSTO add-ins across Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint.
2. Reads both the user hive (HKCU) and the machine hive (HKLM), including the 32-bit WOW6432Node locations.
3. Creates the local SQLite database at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Vediram\Deck\deck.db and records each add-in and its current LoadBehavior.

This takes a few seconds. When it finishes, the main window shows your add-in inventory.

The Original profile

During the first scan Deck captures your existing add-in configuration - exactly as it was before Deck was installed - as a system profile named Original. This profile is your safety net: activating it at any time restores every add-in to the state it had on first launch. You cannot delete the Original profile.

The main window

The main window has a navigation sidebar:

• Profiles - create, edit, and activate add-in profiles.
• Add-ins - the full inventory of discovered add-ins with status and detail.
• Crashes - Office crash reports attributed to add-ins.
• Diagnostics - health checks for registry and add-in issues.
• Settings - startup behavior, metrics polling, and data reset.

If your organization has applied policies, some pages or actions may be restricted or hidden, and affected settings display a managed by IT indicator. For example, ProfileManagementMode can limit profile creation, and DisableCrashAnalysis removes the Crashes page. See the Policy Reference.

System tray

Deck keeps running in the background through its system-tray icon so profile switching and metrics collection continue after you close the window. Right-click the tray icon to switch profiles instantly, open the main window, or exit Deck entirely (which stops both the UI and the Core daemon). See System Tray.

Where your data lives

Everything Deck stores is local to your user profile:

See Files & Data Storage for the complete map.