Excel hangs system

[lmayeda]

Yesterday Excel was working fine. Today when trying to
load the program, the entire systems hangs and after a
long time the "low in system resources" message comes up.
Windows 98 system has 256MB ram, and tons of free disk
space (at least 10GB free). I've cleaned up the .tmp
files, temporary internet files, and ran defrag on the
hard drive. I've uninstalled and re-installed the entire
OFFICE 2000 pro suite. I can open Word, Outlook,
Explorer, IE6, Access and publisher simultaneously with no
problem. I ran Ad-aware and cleaned out the few files it
found, and ran McAfee with the latest Dat files. I have
logged on as another user. I can access the Excel file on
the C: drive (shared) from another PC on the LAN. As far
as I can determine, there has been no new
software/hardware installed in the last month. I have not
re-installed Windows. Any ideas?

 

[Joe Arkin]

Yesterday Excel was working fine. Today when trying to
load the program, the entire systems hangs and after a
long time the "low in system resources" message comes up.
Windows 98 system has 256MB ram, and tons of free disk
space (at least 10GB free). I've cleaned up the .tmp
files, temporary internet files, and ran defrag on the
hard drive. I've uninstalled and re-installed the entire
OFFICE 2000 pro suite. I can open Word, Outlook,
Explorer, IE6, Access and publisher simultaneously with no
problem. I ran Ad-aware and cleaned out the few files it
found, and ran McAfee with the latest Dat files. I have
logged on as another user. I can access the Excel file on
the C: drive (shared) from another PC on the LAN. As far
as I can determine, there has been no new
software/hardware installed in the last month. I have not
re-installed Windows. Any ideas?

I have been researching this problem for months and finally found the
solution this morning.

The file that Excel creates for Cusomized Toolbars (excel.xlb) causes
this problem.

Do a search for *.xlb and delete the file. The user will lose any
customized toolbars they setup but Excel will recreate the file when
the user customizes their toolbar again.

Regards,
-Joe

Joe Arkin
Wauwatosa, WI USA
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Guest]

Hi There,

Had a similar problem with Word 2000 not Excel - ended up
reinstalling operating system (Win 98 in this case) -
reloaded Office 2000 - and all worked well.

Good Luck .