Invalid Page Fault

[Fares]

Dear All,
After opening Excel 2000, this error appears:
Excel caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL
at 017f:bff7a388.
Registers:
EAX=82ac202c CS=017f EIP=bff7a388 EFLGS=00010216
EBX=00000028 SS=0187 ESP=0062f9f8 EBP=0062fa1c
ECX=05598cc8 DS=0187 ESI=82ad6c88 FS=0e97
EDX=82ac2000 ES=0187 EDI=000001cc GS=0000Bytesat CS:EIP:
89 41 08 8b 56 04 8b 46 08 89 50 04 8d 04 1e 50
Stack dump:
000001cc00000000 82ac200c 82ac2000 82ad6c88 00000000
00000000 00082ad6 00082ad7 0062fa44 bff7a550 82ac2000
82ad6c88 00000028 00000000 0000000e

What can I do???
Regards,

 

[Norman Harker]

Hi Fares!

I can't find any specific references to this fault on a quick search
so let's do the standard opening problem solutions first:

The most likely cause is that a vital area of the system used by Excel
is full of junk and needs clearing out.



Close down and re-open the computer just to make sure that all
installations

are complete.



In Windows 95/98 and ME



Delete all files in C:\Windows\Temp





In Windows NT/2000/XP



Find and Select C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\local settings\temp





They are left behind by installing programs but Excel needs the space.



Try again with Excel.



Bloated xlb File


Next is that with pre 2002 versions of Excel there is a tendency for
the toolbar file to bloat in size and eventually this can cause
crashes on opening. It is usually preceded by Excel being noticeably
slower than before in opening and in performance generally. Generally
this means deleting the bloated file.



Next:



Using Start > Search > For Files and folders



Locate the Excel.xlb or Excel10.xlb file. If it is above around 30kb
rename

it Excelxlb.old and move it somewhere. If it's very large you probably
won't

be able to do much with it anyway. This is the toolbar file and Excel
will

create a new one for you.



Now try again.



Please report back if you solve the problem as it helps out others
with the same problem.


--
Regards
Norman Harker MVP (Excel)
Sydney, Australia
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