Windows & Microsoft applications crashing

[goldtooth]

I am regularly seeing my applications (Windows Mail, Microsoft Excel or Word) crash (and restart). This seems to happen whenever I double click a file (in the attached section of Windows Mail) or perform a Control-C in Word or Excel. Any ideas what's going on? I'm using Vista.

 

[xlhelp]

First of all check to see if you have enough hard drive space .... At least 15 to 20% of total.

Then, if that's ok, we might have look for solutions.


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[JustinEzequiel]

for what it's worth. something similar happened to me when I first got Windows 7.
what "fixed" it for Excel (for me, YMMV) was to turn off add-ins
so I changed my start menu shortcut to

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /s /automation

 

[goldtooth]

OK thanks XLHELP - I have 67% hard drive space free. And thanks JustinEzequiel - this might be ok for Excel, but what about Windows Mail?

 

[JustinEzequiel]

perhaps try the switches here
Command-line switches - Outlook

 

[xlhelp]

If Justin's solutions have not worked, then it is likely a registry proble. Please look at this article .

[highlight #CC0000]Caution: if you have not used registry settings before; I would suggest asking an expert.[/highlight]


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[goldtooth]

Thanks, JustinEzequiel & xlhelp. I will try your suggestions - looks like it's not straightforward!

 

[strongm]

>At least 15 to 20% of total.

I'm curious to know why

a) you recommend this particular figure
b) why you think not having such free disk space free would cause Windows to crash.

 

[xlhelp]

I used to say minimum 10%; but lately as applications get smarter I have upped the figure to 15% minimum. Basically, the re-pagination takes up a lot of room on your hard drive whereby slowing down the response or "seem" to crash while it is doing all it's switcheroos. A lot of the times if the computer seems to hang, it's trying to assimilate the data that it requires to display. I have seen huge virtual files just doing back and forth exchange until the proper info is at hand.

That's my viewpoint.

Thanks.


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