FP 2002 problems: w/publish, slow pages, unstable

[alben]

Greetings,

I just upgraded my Windows XP Pro system with MS Office
2000 Pro and FrontPage 2002 to:

MS Office XP 2003 Small Business Edition with FrontPage
2002.

I have my website at lowesthosting.com and they have
Apache servers running Linux with the latest FrontPage
extentions.

Now, when I try to do a save/publish on my home page, I
get this message:

"FrontPage cannot save this document because a file with
the same name exists at this location."

"Please enter a different name and try again."

If I click "OK" on that message, then I get the "Save As"
dialoge box.

The only way I can publish the home page is by giving the
home page a new name and saving it. And then going back
and changing the name of the home page back to "index.html"

I know there is a simple answer to this by changing
the "Options" or something.

Previously, when I did a "save" the existing web page
would complete a "save" without the message, and that is
what I want again.

By the way, I had major slowdowns and instability problems
with FrontPage 2002 when Office 2000 Pro was installed.

With my previous system setup...Windows XP Pro and MS
Office Pro 2000 and FrontPage 2002, I had these problems:

1. Loading the home page in FP 2002 would take 2 - 3
minutes.

2. Clicking the cursor from one line to another line on
the home page took 20 seconds.

3. Completeting a "save" would take 2 -3 minutes. FP 2002
was able to work.

4. Typing new letters on the homepage sometimes caused FP
2002 to not just close, but FP 2002 would "pop" off the
screen...I mean the FP 2002 would disappear completely in
a split second...with no error message or
anything...just "poof" it was gone.

5. My other MS Office 2000 applications, Word and Outlook
would also experinence similar problems, but not as bad as
FP 2002.

My system is a IBM Intellistation M Pro 933mz with 1024mb
RDRam, 36GB SCSI hard drive and the MS Office 2000 and
FrontPage 2002 ran with no problems for more than a year.

Then just after the first week of Jan. this year, all the
problems started and would not go away.

I did all the Windows and Office updates.
I defraged the hard drive.
I reinstalled all the drivers and updated the bios.
I did a low level format on the SCSI hard drive and
reloaded only Office 2000 and FP 2002 with no old files
what so ever...I did this twice...and had the same
problems.

After 4 weeks of trying...I suspected that MS Office and
FP 2002 were not compatible and did not like each other. I
could be wrong, but I had to get my system up and running.

I purchased MS Office XP 2003 Small Business Edition, then
I did a another low level format on the SCSI drive and
reloaded all the application and files.

And now everything works and I only wasted a couple of
hundred hours in the past 4 weeks.

I like the new Office XP 2003 SBE. I do not like the
Windows Automatic Updates on Windows XP Pro, so it is now
turned off.

I know this is not practical, but now when I do any
Windows Updates, I only do one at a time and one a day so
you can test the results of the update.

Oh well so much for the wonderful world of the internet.

From my reading of the recent postings, I see there are a
good number of other people with the same types of
problems with FP.

I also noticed that there are almost no responses to the
recent postings.

Is there anyone on the other end of this newsgroup?

Like a moderator or something?

Thanks,

alben

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

Greetings,

Howdy.

This is quite a variety of problems, but the ones that
really stand out are:

4. Typing new letters on the homepage sometimes caused
FP 2002 to not just close, but FP 2002 would "pop"
off the screen...I mean the FP 2002 would disappear
completely in a split second...with no error message
or anything...just "poof" it was gone.

5. My other MS Office 2000 applications, Word and
Outlook would also experinence similar problems, but
not as bad as FP 2002.

The fact that you're having similar problems with several
different applications, despite clean reinstalls from
scratch, suggests a hardware problem. Quite often, a new
video driver will fix this, but it might also be a flaky
expansion card, disk, or motherboard. Emphasize, "might".

I have a procedure for resolving FrontPage publishing
problems at:

FrontPage Publish Command Fails
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=24

and that may help, but it would have no effect on Word
and Outlook popping out of existence.

Are you publishing through an external FTP program or
through FrontPage?

How large is your Web? Please post the total number of
files, the number of Web pages, and the number of
megabytes.


I must tell you, these sorts of problems, with several
occurring at once, are very quirky and very hard to
diagnose by newsgroup. That's probably why you didn't get
very many responses to the other postings you mentioned.

Is there anyone on the other end of this newsgroup?

Like a moderator or something?

Microsoft owns the newsgroup and provides system support,
but all the content comes from FrontPage users helping
each other. Many, but not all, of these helpful people
are Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs).

Microsoft designates MVPs based on proven expertise in
the product and a proven spirit of community. MVPs are
unpaid, but we do get get awards and recognition from
Microsoft. In other words, we do it for glory and
reputation.

To contact someone about the newsgroup, browse:

http://register.microsoft.com/contactus30/contactus.asp?
domain=communities

and click:

Send feedback about the Communities web site, and share
your comments too.

However, because the newsgroups are a free service,
there's no guarantee that any question you ask will be
answered. For a guaranteed answer, you have to open a
paid incident with Microsoft Product Support Services.
And even PSS reserves the right to say, "We can't fix
that," and return your money.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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