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JohnThePresenter
todayAfter installing IE7 and various associated security updates, Word
crashed every time I tried to launch it on any document, complaining about
problems with preferences and asking me whether I wanted to set them back to
defaults (doing this had no beneficial effect). Renaming .dot or .pip files,
and Detect and Repair, were of no avail. Word still worked on other logins on
the same PC. Finally, I renamed the registry Data key in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Word\Data and that fixed it.
I did notice on a previous reboot that one or two processes were stopped,
but the installation had reported itself as being complete by that time.
crashed every time I tried to launch it on any document, complaining about
problems with preferences and asking me whether I wanted to set them back to
defaults (doing this had no beneficial effect). Renaming .dot or .pip files,
and Detect and Repair, were of no avail. Word still worked on other logins on
the same PC. Finally, I renamed the registry Data key in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Word\Data and that fixed it.
I did notice on a previous reboot that one or two processes were stopped,
but the installation had reported itself as being complete by that time.