EXCEL.EXE is not a valid win32 application

[JD Horn]

Sometimes when I try to open excel directly, or by double-clicking an excel
file, I get the error message "EXCEL.EXE is not a valid win32 application".
The first time it happened, I tried repairing office - and that seemed to
work - but the last time, I shut down and restarted the comp and excel
started to work again. Excel seems to be the only app that does this. I use
it quite a bit, and it's giving me flashbacks to windows 95's multiple
reboots per day to keep things working

I'm running office pro 2007 sp1 on vista sp1 (oh, and this started to happen
after the vista sp1 install)

Jim

 

[scott pisciotta]

I get the same issue. It has to be something with Vista's shi###Y memory management. I turned off super feth and back on to no avail....I also noticed that if you have OneNote and try to use its screen capture option you only get a blank screen capture.

Vista is worse than Windows ME. It is an SP1 issue.

 

[K-Dog]

I get the same issue.  It has to be something with Vista's shi###Y memory management.  I turned off super feth and back on to no avail....I also noticed that if you have OneNote and try to use its screen capture option youonly get a blank screen capture.

Vista is worse than Windows ME.  It is an SP1 issue.

I am having this problem as well... vista/sp1 excel 2007

 

[Fuginator]

I too, have the same error. Office 2007, Vista SP1. It's a sad, sad day.

 

[Martine]

I am receiving the same error message when opening Excel 2007 - anyone have
solutions yet? Please share.

 

[Fuginator]

Rebooting does seem to help, for a few days, then you must reboot again.
Almost sounding like older versions of Windows now.... And everything was so
stable before a few days ago. (Even after SP1, it was fine for weeks, then
it broke).

We are using Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and it's new - any of you running that
as well?

 

[Martine]

Ok - I was able to open Excel by changing the compatibility feature - I
believe I found it by clicking on the Excel file and then properties. This
solved the problem for me - at least for now.

 

[contacted]

Exactly,
I was changing the default saving format (from xlsx to xls) by GPO and my excel crashed every time i launched it. Step back fix my problem
(Excel 2007 w/ SP1)

Ok - I was able to open Excel by changing the compatibility feature - I
believe I found it by clicking on the Excel file and then properties. This
solved the problem for me - at least for now.

"Fuginator" wrote:

> Rebooting does seem to help, for a few days, then you must reboot again.
> Almost sounding like older versions of Windows now.... And everything was so
> stable before a few days ago. (Even after SP1, it was fine for weeks, then
> it broke).
>
> We are using Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and it's new - any of you running that
> as well?

 

[David Potter]

I tried this and it didn't work for me. It seems like the problem is related
to memory pressure. It only happens when memory usage rises too high.