Help! Excel freeze the whole thing when start.

[Peter]

Excel problem in my office has been constantly bugging me. Now that
one of the computer can even start Excel, when we try to start it, it
gives something like "resource is not enough" message and then just
dies there. We can even fix it by removing it and reinstall it. Any
one has idea deal with this? Many thanks in advance.

Pete

 

[Dave Peterson]

Try cleaning up your windows temp folder.

And if that didn't help, try searching for your *.xlb file. It's where excel
stores your customized toolbars.

Windows Start button|Find|files
check out the size of that file. If it's huge, try renaming it (*.xlbOLD). If
that helps, recreate your toolbar file and dump that old one. If it doesn't
help, you could just rename it back to *.xlb.

(A few months ago, my *.xlb file went from over 450k to about 12k. (but it
wasn't causing me problems.))

And Chip Pearson has some notes to help diagnose this kind of problem at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

 

[Peter]

Thank you, it does help.

Peter

Try cleaning up your windows temp folder.

And if that didn't help, try searching for your *.xlb file. It's where excel
stores your customized toolbars.

Windows Start button|Find|files
check out the size of that file. If it's huge, try renaming it (*.xlbOLD). If
that helps, recreate your toolbar file and dump that old one. If it doesn't
help, you could just rename it back to *.xlb.

(A few months ago, my *.xlb file went from over 450k to about 12k. (but it
wasn't causing me problems.))

And Chip Pearson has some notes to help diagnose this kind of problem at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm