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Various Crashes mostly Word 2003
Ever since I received my Inspiron 8600, I've noticed quite a few program crashes. Outlook 2003 crashes about 1 out of every 20 uses. The worst offender is MS Word 2003. It crashes 3 seconds after being launched every single time it is launched.
I Went to Microsoft's knowledgebase and followed instructions:
1. I've tried launching with the /a attribute and it still crashed.
2. I deleted the data (and one other that I forget) items from the registry.
3. I deleted the Normal.dot file.
4. I created a new user and logged in as that user and voila! Word now appears to work.
Can someone tell me if this points to a specific corrupt file? That way I know which files I can copy over from my old profile.
Message Edited by pagenix on 02-12-2004 02:18 PM
Message Edited by pagenix on 02-12-2004 03:13 PM
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Posted July 11th, 2004 18:00
Just a followup in case others read this posting.
I found the error to be 100% related to the cheap additional after-market RAM that I had purchased. I sent the 512MB card back and purchased a new 512MB chip from Crucial and all is working great!
Both of my RAM bays are full now, but I think 1Gig of RAM is enough for the time being.