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Windows 98 out of memory when loading Word
I'm running Win 98SE and office 2000 word. Everything works fine until I try to start Word. I can run excel, access, powerpoint, etc. and any other software I have (not all at once of course) but when I try to start Word it freezes at the startup screen and eventually I get a message saying Insufficient memory to start . . . after that I cannot start any other software without a dangerously low on resources warning popping up. At this point the computer sometimes locks up completely and, if I can cancel the word startup, sometimes returns to a normal looking desktop. However, at this point I can sometimes hit the start button and only a blank box appears with no programs, control panel, etc shown so I have to reboot anyway and the whole things starts again. I have uninstalled and reinstalled office. I've run virus scans, used msconfig to reduce startups to a minimum, run anti spyware programs and they come up with nothing.
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256mb memory. Made of ??? Not meaning to be difficult but what does running 9 yr old software have to do with my question? I run Win 98 because I have a DOS based program I need for a while longer -- I also have XP machines that will not run this software without errors and 98 works fine with all but Word. Which it also worked fine with until recently.
And, as I said, all software on the machine, including Quickbooks, Microsoft Access, Excel, High-powered scanning and document storing software all run fine -- but not Word. And nothing will run once I have tried to start Word through Winword.exe or by clicking a word doc.
And, as I said, all software on the machine, including Quickbooks, Microsoft Access, Excel, High-powered scanning and document storing software all run fine -- but not Word. And nothing will run once I have tried to start Word through Winword.exe or by clicking a word doc.
Made of ??? Not meaning to be difficult but what does running 9 yr old software have to do with my question?
- everything as you didn't make known what you have in the system..... and out of memory error is just that.. and in the era where this Win98 has been made, the machine's during that time, had limited configuration and stock memory. So therefore an assumption was made to provoke some other added response from you to assist us in determining where we need to look, in this case, you have ample RAM.
So now we move forward.
Have you applied the latest Service Pack?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5C011C70-47D0-4306-9FA4-8E92D36332FE&displaylang=en
And / OR, the latest security issues?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/CD010225821033.aspx
If that fails, you may want to take a look at what has recently been installed on your system at the time you had this error.
- everything as you didn't make known what you have in the system..... and out of memory error is just that.. and in the era where this Win98 has been made, the machine's during that time, had limited configuration and stock memory. So therefore an assumption was made to provoke some other added response from you to assist us in determining where we need to look, in this case, you have ample RAM.
So now we move forward.
Have you applied the latest Service Pack?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5C011C70-47D0-4306-9FA4-8E92D36332FE&displaylang=en
And / OR, the latest security issues?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/CD010225821033.aspx
If that fails, you may want to take a look at what has recently been installed on your system at the time you had this error.
i would start with testing the ram with memtest86+ : http://www.memtest.org/
other than that, you can do a repair on office from the add / delete programs section
other than that, you can do a repair on office from the add / delete programs section
and of course, run sfc from the run box.
another option is a repair install :
www.windowsreinstall.com/
another option is a repair install :
www.windowsreinstall.com/
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blue_zee..... i remember doing that a few years back, and that worked...
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Blue_zee's answer solved the problem. Funny, because years ago I had this same problem with normal.dot. Back then I found the solution on EE, saved it to a doc file and have been saving it along with everything else through 3 or 4 new computers on my home machine so I had the answer on another of my computers all the time -- but had forgotten it. Thanks all for the help and suggestions.
I'm marking this a favorite....
Thank you.
Zee
What is your computer made of?