Excel Hangs when launching

[Guest]

Recently excel stopped opening on one workstation,
reloading app didn't work. Virus scan comes up fine.
Problem has spread to another pc on the network. They do
not open any common excel spreadsheets. You will sometimes
get memory low warning but usually just locks up
workstation. Its excel 2000 running on win98se.
Any One With This Problem Recently

 

[Rob Bovey]

Recently excel stopped opening on one workstation,
reloading app didn't work. Virus scan comes up fine.
Problem has spread to another pc on the network. They do
not open any common excel spreadsheets. You will sometimes
get memory low warning but usually just locks up
workstation. Its excel 2000 running on win98se.
Any One With This Problem Recently

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. Note that this may be a hidden file, so
you'll need to set Explorer to show hidden files. Excel uses these files to
store information about its toolbar configuration, but they frequently
become corrupt and cause strange errors 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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[Dale]

I have the same problem with excel. The file appears to be
ok since I can pull files from other workstations. Mcafee
virus scan ok. i'm running 98se. Have you found any answers