FractalWalk
Technical User
I am having problems with an MS Word macro that I use in a Windows 2000 environment.
I use a macro to scrape data from the internet. The macro opens up html documents in text format, searches and extracts data, then closes the documents. The macro opens thousands of web pages a day. This opening of documents is causing my Windows 2000 NTUSER.DAT and NTUSER.DAT.LOG to increase dramatically in size.
When the temp internet files are cleared, the NTUSER.DAT.LOG returns to its normal size, but the NTUSER.DAT file does not. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger. After it exceeds the maximum registry size, it will not longer accept my personal settings, not to mention that it takes about 15 minutes to log in.
I know that the NTUSER.DAT file is expected to grow over time, but this is orders of magnitude larger than expected. The file grew from about 400k to 90 Mb in a week. Tech support is baffled and claims that it shouldn't happen.
Virus scan, Scandisk, Defrag and an OS re-install did nothing to help the problem. Does anyone know why this would occur? And if so, how do I fix it?
I use a macro to scrape data from the internet. The macro opens up html documents in text format, searches and extracts data, then closes the documents. The macro opens thousands of web pages a day. This opening of documents is causing my Windows 2000 NTUSER.DAT and NTUSER.DAT.LOG to increase dramatically in size.
When the temp internet files are cleared, the NTUSER.DAT.LOG returns to its normal size, but the NTUSER.DAT file does not. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger. After it exceeds the maximum registry size, it will not longer accept my personal settings, not to mention that it takes about 15 minutes to log in.
I know that the NTUSER.DAT file is expected to grow over time, but this is orders of magnitude larger than expected. The file grew from about 400k to 90 Mb in a week. Tech support is baffled and claims that it shouldn't happen.
Virus scan, Scandisk, Defrag and an OS re-install did nothing to help the problem. Does anyone know why this would occur? And if so, how do I fix it?
