EXCEL caused a general protection fault

[Kevin G]

I get the following error everytime I try to open Excel.
I do not have any problems with any other applications.
I have scanned my hard drive for virus's and found known.
Any help would be approeciated.
Thanks

 

[Rob Bovey]

I get the following error everytime I try to open Excel.
I do not have any problems with any other applications.
I have scanned my hard drive for virus's and found known.
Any help would be approeciated.

Hi Kevin,

This isn't guaranteed to solve the problem, but it's worth a try. Use
Windows Explorer to search all of your hard disks for files with a .XLB
extension. Delete any that you find. Excel uses these files to store
information about its toolbar configuration, but they frequently become
corrupted and cause strange problems like this. Excel will create clean new
default versions after you delete the old corrupt ones, but you will lose
any toolbar customizations you've made.

--
Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
Application Professionals
http://www.appspro.com/

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[Kevin G]

Thanks alot that seems to have worked.

-----Original Message-----


Hi Kevin,

This isn't guaranteed to solve the problem, but it's worth a try. Use
Windows Explorer to search all of your hard disks for files with a .XLB
extension. Delete any that you find. Excel uses these files to store
information about its toolbar configuration, but they frequently become
corrupted and cause strange problems like this. Excel will create clean new
default versions after you delete the old corrupt ones, but you will lose
any toolbar customizations you've made.

--
Rob Bovey, MCSE, MCSD, Excel MVP
Application Professionals
http://www.appspro.com/

* Please post all replies to this newsgroup *
* I delete all unsolicited e-mail responses *


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