Fatal Instability in Office 2003; w/Fun Complication

[StephanieC]

BACKROUND:

I have a PII 400mHz/128MB RAM/60G hddr laptop on which I
have installed Win XP Professional and Win Office 2003
Professional. I am also supposed to have IE 6.0 (this will
become relevant shortly), although updates for that program
do not acknowledge the program. The machine works fine.

PROBLEM:

I, essentially, cannot use Office. It is constantly
crashing or hanging during initialization and is therefor
exceptionally unreliable for any of the tasks which I
purchased it for. All of Office 2003 suite is fatally
unstable. I have sought out all possible updates and
installed them (except for the latest: 8300000, because a
file name is apparently "too long") to no avail. Now for
the fun complication: I've been hunting updates in Mozilla
because IE, although not as unstable, just plain doesn't
work. Most of the pages on the MS websites don't load,
especially the update pages, and--as I've
mentioned--updates won't install because my version is not
recognized as IE 6 even though I installed it from the MS
site...

Help?

 

[Marvin]

reload or go buy a new one. How is Andy

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Per this page http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/proreq.mspx,
you are running below the recommended requirements for the computer on which
you are attempting to run Office 2003.

I suggest that you upgrade your system or purchase a newer computer.
Sometimes, running the latest and greatest requires that you upgrade.
Otherwise, I would uninstall and use what you had before.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, StephanieC asked:

| BACKROUND:
|
| I have a PII 400mHz/128MB RAM/60G hddr laptop on which I
| have installed Win XP Professional and Win Office 2003
| Professional. I am also supposed to have IE 6.0 (this will
| become relevant shortly), although updates for that program
| do not acknowledge the program. The machine works fine.
|
| PROBLEM:
|
| I, essentially, cannot use Office. It is constantly
| crashing or hanging during initialization and is therefor
| exceptionally unreliable for any of the tasks which I
| purchased it for. All of Office 2003 suite is fatally
| unstable. I have sought out all possible updates and
| installed them (except for the latest: 8300000, because a
| file name is apparently "too long") to no avail. Now for
| the fun complication: I've been hunting updates in Mozilla
| because IE, although not as unstable, just plain doesn't
| work. Most of the pages on the MS websites don't load,
| especially the update pages, and--as I've
| mentioned--updates won't install because my version is not
| recognized as IE 6 even though I installed it from the MS
| site...
|
| Help?