Microsoft 2003 Excel crash on Windows Vista

[davidliang]

Hi, guys, I know this kind of topics have posted here for a while, and I saw you guys' posts, but i just couldn't get my laptop fixed.

Can you guys give me a walk-through guide? Thousand thx



Here is the problem: Everytime I tried to open Excel, the error message followed up:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: EXCEL.EXE
Application Version: 11.0.8169.0
Application Timestamp: 465f27bd
Fault Module Name: OLEAUT32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16609
Fault Module Timestamp: 4757753e
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000041c0
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2052
Additional information about the problem:
LCID: 1033
Brand: Office11Crash
skulcid: 1033
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Please help !!!


For the solutions posted here before, I couldn't be able to change normal.dot file to normalold.dot file. Well I couldn't even be able to find out where it is. My laptop seems not have "documents & settings".

 

[DaveA]

Have you tried running a Diagnostics from the Excel Options, and then Resources?

 

[davidliang]

Well, can you specific how ?

 

[DaveA]

Open Excel, click on the Office orb (the round thing in the right upper corner) select Excel Options on the bottom of the menu and then resources.

 

[davidliang]

I can't even turn the excel on. While i am trying to open the excel, it freaze and error message poped up

 

[DaveA]

Try any of the other Office programs and try there. The Diagnostics is done on the complete Office package.

 

[davidliang]

I couldn't find the office orb on the upper right cornner that you were talking about.

 

[DaveA]

My error, it is in the Upper LEFT.
It looks like the image below!

 

[davidliang]

thx. Actually i got the problem fixed just by doing the upgrade to Vista service pack 1. The problem happened before because I got blocked from upgrading that. I figured out that i had to download the special upgrade package called Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Five Language Standalone (or all language) in order to upgrade to service pack 1.

Here is the link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6D-5EBB-413B-89C9-CB3D06D12674&displaylang=en

anyway. thanks for the time.