Dennis Miller
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office 2010 error
I have a user that is getting an error office 2014 and she just installed office 2010? Not sure what this means. She says office 2010 locks up and just crashes on occasion. We run XP and not suer if XP will not run 2010 correctly.
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I will do both suggestions and see what happens. Thanks. We use mainly office 2007 but there are a few who seem to like to break the rules and try to jump the steps until we all are on board with how this works with XP as I am sure everything now is geared for windows 7. That is our next hump. I love windows 7 though.
I find that Office 2010 is an improvement from 2007. There aren't too many differences but the changes they've made are worth the upgrade.
Let us know how it goes.
Let us know how it goes.
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It seemed to work great after the repair, but yesterday she emailed to say it was doing the same thing. I am upgrading the ram and she also uses a monitoring (closed circuit TV ) that crashed because of lack of ram. I will look at the event viewer today and see what pops up. I will get back to you. The repair did help and I am starting to believe it may be something else causing this. Is it true that office 2010 is better suited for windows 7? Does this come into play?
It's probably better suited to Windows 7 but it should run fine in XP. You'll lose more of the interface (Aero feature) when installing on XP other than the reliability or functionality. Let us know what happens.
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Will do. Thanks. I am starting to think the CCTV may be eating up the ram needed to use for other stuff. It seems the CCTV is hogging a lot of ram.
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If you want to toubleshoot the memory problem of XP in your scenario, have a look of the article below and do some tests and post back the results.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/solutionbase-monitor-windows-xps-memory-usage-with-a-customized-version-of-performance-monitor/5263541
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/solutionbase-monitor-windows-xps-memory-usage-with-a-customized-version-of-performance-monitor/5263541
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Both comments were great and bot helped track this issue. I want to thank you all for your help and have learned a few new tricks. Thanks again.
We need more information on the error - what was the exact text of the error message? which Office program was the user using (or was this during installation?) Does it happen in multiple Office applications?