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I have reduced "save autorecover info" right down to one minute and I can definitely type for a lot longer when it is on that setting. Tried that and Word continued to crash in the same manner.

ok.. printer installed and Word crashed to black screen after a few minutes of furious typing..could it be faulty memory? will swap out the RAM tomorrow and also try another Graphics Card..worth a try I guess! Thanks for you help, elgordo

pgliardo...I have not in installed a printer since I reformatted the HD..I will do so right now and the PC is not on a network, ta for the input!

Yes, tried it in safe mode and Word crashes to black screen after typing a few sentences..exactly as in normal mode

Oops..Sorry for the confusion guys..This is the situation... I can load word and work on a document for a few minutes but then it crashes to a black screen..This is a new install of WinXP Pro (and Office XP 2002 Pro)...I have not installed any printer or drivers. Having said that, on the...

I have no PRINTER installed, and have installed no drivers. If Word needs a printer driver to function I guess it must be using a driver built into Windows.

because at the time I DID have printer drivers installed..I have since reformatted the hard drive :)

This is odd!! This is the path for the custom.dic C:\Documents and Settings\TrevAndrea\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof this is the contents of custom.dic ... mercurypc that's it....shouldn't custom.dic include an entire dictionary of words??

Have renamed normal.dot and problem remains. also I have disables spell check and problem remains

Tried that and word still crashes..I have no printer drivers installed! Can you give me some more info on normal.dot? can I replace it if it is corrupt?

Actually it only happens when I'm editing a word doc...after a few minutes word crashes every time

Not sure..but will download right now and cross all fingers and toes...thanks for the tip..

Thanks,tf1, for your quick reply. Unfortunately the article didn't help me much as I can use Word for a while before it crashes and that scenario wasn't addressed . I have tried all of the relevant fixes in the article to no avail. Not sure waht to do next..could try a fresh windows install..but...

Specs: Celeron 3000+ 1024MB ddr 200GB HD XP Pro Microsoft Office Pro 2002 Hi!..LONG time no see. This a new PC I have built myself. Everything works perfectly except that when I use Microsoft Word the PC goes to Black Sreen and hangs until I reset. I have reinstalled Word and problem remains.

Try right clicking on a track it may give you the option to queue it up!!

sorry missread that you are talking about Media Player 10..I will have a look at it now and try to figure it out for you

I use MMJB 10 and if if I double click a track in the library it adds it to the playlist window...just keep double clicking the tracks you want to hear and they will build up in the playlist

I've got one on my shopping list...honest!!

another vote for diskeeper..I have set to defrag in screen saver mode! I used windows defrag for years...what a nightmare!!

OK the drive letter issue update!! The next time I switched the ext drive it had changed from J: back to H: Tried to change it back to J: in MY COMPUTER/manage/disc management but J: option not available!! Restarted windows and tried again and J: option is there!!! There's the solution!!! Still...