OK, Understand. OldBro uses lots of adobe too. I'd focus on the stupid toolbar then. Reads like the only "new" addition........... :) Best, Duncan
At 15:05 01/21/2008 -0500, you wrote:
I've got the whole entire CS3 suite. Don't really use all of it but I use Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and occasionally have need for Illustrator and Premiere. I don't even know if Adobe is the culprit. I've had them installed and chugging along happily for a few months now. The Word problem just started recently and the only thing I could think of to link it to was that all my Adobe apps recently did an update and keep adding that damn toolbar to Word. But other than this I haven't had a single Office crash in many years. On Jan 21, 2008 3:00 PM, DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian, > I use Word03 also and have never seen this; even with a dorked normal.dot. > As you mention some toolbar from adobe, I'd kill adobe. I have been seeing > increased popups for adobe external of Word lately. What version of adobe > are you > using? Heck, even my older Brother is getting ready to fire adobe after 8 > years! > Best, > Duncan > > > At 14:39 01/21/2008 -0500, you wrote: > >Just started a couple days ago. When I launch Word 2003 either from > >command line, shortcut, or by double-clicking a doc file it > >immediately presents a crash screen. If I tell it to load in safe > >mode it works fine. Otherwise it just keeps on crashing. > > > >I did some googling and it turns out this could have several problems. > > One is a corrupt Normal.dot, the default template file. So I deleted > >it and presto Word loaded fine. But when I closed Word it created a > >new Normal.dot and then went back to it's crashing behavior again. So > >the problem has to be deeper. > > > >Another article mentioned it might be caused by bad temp files so I > >nuked all of those. A third article mentioned disabling any global > >templates and com add-ins that are present in the C:\Documents and > >Settings\ username\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup folder. I > >checked and nothing there. > > > >I can run Word with the wordwin.exe /a command just fine now but I'm > >still bugged by what might have been the root cause. Any suggestions? > > The only thing I can think is that the Adobe toolbars that keep > >popping up (even though I tell them not to) are the cause. These are > >the Contribute and ScanSoft PDF toolbars. I found out how to disable > >the Contribute toolbar but it didn't help. As soon as Word wrote the > >new Normal.dot it started crashing again. > > > >-- > >Brian Weeden > >Technical Consultant > >Secure World Foundation > > -- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation
