How to turn off Excel addins?

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I have about 3 or 4 Excel addins. If I try to disable them from Excel Options > Addins > Manage > COM Addins > untick then I get a message that only an administrator can do this.

Can Excel be started as Admin?

If not where could the addins be hiding?

They are not here

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins

or here

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins

The Windows 7 x64 PC is managed under Group Policy so is there somewhere else where they can be? They are not VSTO based addins as VSTO is not installed.

I obviously have access to the registry and can change anything in the registry.

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You can right-click, Run As Administrator, on the Excel.exe itself. – Richard Morgan
I was trying to right click on the links which is why I did not see the Run as. Once it is running as admin I can remove the addins. If you write that as an answer I will accept it. – darbid
Thanks for the offer. :) – Richard Morgan

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You can right-click, Run As Administrator, on the Excel.exe itself.

When running as as an Admin, you can remove the Add-Ins.