WORD 2000 Crashes while loading - WIN98

[Jeff Wisnia]

After several years of working faultlessly, when I went to start
WORD2000 today the program displayed the initial "WORD 2000" sign and
then stopped loading just as it began to fill the window.

I could not get the close program box to appear, so I restarted WIN98
and got the same disappointing results when I tried to start WORD again.

I uninstalled WORD and also WORKS and used regedit to remove the few
remaining entries for MSWORD and MSWORKS. I also deleted a few folders
containing items relating to WORD and WORKS.

A reinstall of WORKS and WORD from their original CDs got me right back
where I started from, WORKS seems OK, but WORD stops loading and hangs
up the computer before it gets very far into its loading process.

Help please?

Thanks guys,

Jeff


--
Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented."

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm .

 

[Jeff Wisnia]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm .

Mega thanks! It appears it was due to the first suggested cause, a
corrupt "normal.dot" file.

All's well again.

I was really put out when our newspaper, The Boston Globe, dropped the
Garfield strip several months ago. But I soon found out that

www.garfield.com

lets me read the daily strips, plus offering an archive of several years
worth of previous ones.

Jeff


--
Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented."

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Always glad to be of help to a fellow fan.

Mega thanks! It appears it was due to the first suggested cause, a
corrupt "normal.dot" file.

All's well again.

I was really put out when our newspaper, The Boston Globe, dropped the
Garfield strip several months ago. But I soon found out that

www.garfield.com

lets me read the daily strips, plus offering an archive of several years
worth of previous ones.

Jeff