EXCEL Error Popup When Booting XP SP2

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Bob Harris

Since installing SP-2 for XP (home edition), every few days I get an error
popup after reaching the desktop. The error is "Excel has encountered a
problem and needs to close." The odd thing is that EXCEL is NOT in my
startup group, nor was I using EXCEL the previous time I booted the PC, nor
have I ever experienced a crash in EXCEL itself.

Otherwise, the PC is working normally.

I have Office 2003 with SP-1 for that Office. I have already tried the
"repair" feature of Office 2003.

If anyone has experienced something similar, or knows the solution, I would
appreciate a response to this posting.

Thanks.
 
If EXCEL needs to close, it had to be open.

Try this...
Start | Run | Type: msconfig | OK |
Startup tab

Look around, is excel.exe listed anywhere??
 
Thanks for the reply, but I had already thought of that. I have also
searched the registry for EXCEL.EXE and found nothing obvious under "run" or
"run once".
 
Check the rest of these then.

With Windows XP Home, There are 13+ places that programs can start from and
they are executed in the following order:

Before Logon
1)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce
2) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices

After Logon
3)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\Setup
4) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
5) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx
6) WIN.INI [Windows] Load
7) WIN.INI [Windows] Run
8) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
9) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
10) C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
11) C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name Here\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
12) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
13) As a Scheduled Task set to run at startup.
 
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