Word 2003 pops up extra window when opening a doc

[Alexander]

When I open a ...doc with MS Word 2003 and when there is another minimized
page on the Taskbar it will pop up just behind the page I have opened,
covering other windows on the Desktop.

How does one put a stop to this?

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[Terry Farrell]

Sorry but I don't follow your problem. If the other page on the Taskbar is
minimised, what is popping up behind what? How are you opening the second
document?

 

[Alexander]

Hi, Terry,

Thanks for the follow up.

As an example I-net.doc is minimized on the Taskbar. When I open up
Daily.doc, I-net.doc opens up behind it to the upper left showing its Title
bar and about an equal amount of the left side of that window. In this case
I opened Daily.doc by clicking on its name in the Recently Opened menu.
However, this seems to happen however I open a 2nd Word document.

Hope you (or somebody) has thoughts about this.

Thanks again for responding.

Alexander

 

[Terry Farrell]

That's bizarre and not correct, of course.

Try opening Word in Safe Mode and testing again. From Start, Run (Winkey+R),
type in

winword /a

and press enter. Word opens in Safe Mode. Open a document and then minimise
to the Taskbar. Now open another document. Does it still do the same?

Terry

 

[Alexander]

Hi, Terry,

Thanks for the suggestion.

Still does the same.

Alexander

 

[Terry Farrell]

If this is happening whilst Word is opened in Safe Mode, it pretty much
points to the the AntiVirus causing this. Are you using Norton AV or
Kaspersky - both of which are known to cause similar problems?

Terry

 

[Alexander]

Hi, Terry,

I appreciate your prompt reply.

I'm using "Avast!" v.4.8 Home Ed.

Alexander

 

[Terry Farrell]

I'm not familiar with Avast. It may be worth checking at their support site
to see if there is an update or if they have had reports of this.

Terry