Word 2007/other office programs crashing on opening
Suddenly, I had this strange problem. When one of my colleagues started Word 2007, it would say ‘Word has stopped responding’. Afterwards, it will try to open in safe mode, do repair, etc. without any help. I even tried re-installing the entire suite with no luck.
The next thing I tried was to login as a different user and try opening…whoa…it was working without any problem. So I figured out it had to do something with the user’s setting.
After some research on google, I found out lot of posts relating to deleting the ‘Data’ key entry in the HKEY_CURRENTUSER in registry. I finally thought I had the answer. Unfortunately it also didn’t work.
Then I remembered that even I had a problem with my Xerox printer driver in my Vista machine though I had no problems with Word except when I print. If I select this Xerox machine, (its a 8560DN), Word will crash, it was solved by installing a new driver. However, this re-surfaced again after some Microsoft auto-update. I had to remove the printer and add it again.
Now, this was my last hope. I went to the printers folder, and to my relief, I found that this printer was set as the default. I deleted this printer and started Word 2007. WHOA!!! it started……WOW!