Word 2000 not responding in Vista Home Premium environment

[Karla]

After installing Office 2000 on my new Vista Home Premium HP G70, the WORD
application opens, but after a couple of seconds replies "Not responding" and
stays that way. All other applications in the package, Excel, Powerpoint,
etc. work just fine

 

[Terry Farrell]

Have you installed a printer driver and set it as the windows default
printer?

Otherwise see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProblemsStartingWord.htm

 

[Karla]

I'm able to start Word fine using the winword.exe /a command but haven't
found any of the suggestions outlined in the link below helpful, i.e. I
renamed the "normal" files, deleted the data key - to no avail.

What do you mean by installing a printer driver?
I loaded the HP Laserjet IIP driver for my NEC Superscript 870 which is
recommended for this unsupported printer.

Any other helpful ideas?

 

[Terry Farrell]

Word needs to see a compatible printer driver installed. If you have gone
through all the recommendations and can only start in Safe Mode, it suggests
a possible printer driver problem. For a test, try installing the generic
text driver (found as standard in Widows) and test Word with it set as the
default printer.

Terry

 

[Karla]

Terry,
Thanks for all your help! I understand that you this on your time.
Unfortunately, also your last recommendation to uninstall all printers and go
to a generic one did not do the trick and I'm about to give up.

I strongly believe the problem is Vista and Office 2000 SR-1. Thanks, again.

 

[Karla]

Terry.
I uninstalled MS Office Live Add-in and that solved the problem!

 

[Terry Farrell]

Thanks for letting us know.

Terry

 

[Valerio]

Terry.
I uninstalled MS Office Live Add-in and that solved the problem!

 

[Valerio]

Karla: Thanks!! Thanks!!! Thank!!!

 

[Anne-Marie]

Thank you so much for the post Karla, I've been trying for weeks to get used
to my new laptop and vista systems. The first few days I spent trying to
download drivers to get my printer to work on the new system (the solution to
which I found in a forum) and until today I've been trying to get word 2000
to work and had almost given up hope. So a big big thank you, now I can get
on with work!

 

[kapunk]

I have been on so many sites and tried so many things and uninstalling
Microsoft Live add-in was the solution. Thank you! now I can finiash my
homework for my grad class.