I always wondered why whenever I start up the Office Word 2007 in Windows Vista and before it could run, it just turn sickly pale and then died by crashing. I have to start it up several times before it finally stabilizes. Very irritating and left me to contemplate using the alternative from Open Office. <\/p>\n
Checking around, I found the solution to the crashing problem from a forum. Apparently the registry was somehow corrupted so it needs to be removed.<\/p>\n
First start the regedit.exe program<\/p>\n
Then follow the path:
\nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\/Software\/Microsoft\/Office\/12.0\/Word<\/p>\n
Then change the folder called ‘data’ to ‘olddata’
\nThen change the folder called ‘options’ to ‘oldoptions’<\/p>\n
The second folder \u2018option\u2019 removal is optional as some web site only suggested removing the \u2018data\u2019 folder. Anyway, I just removed both by following the above procedure. After making the changes, when you open up Office Word 2007 again it will create new files to replace the old.<\/p>\n
This should help solve some of Microsoft annoyances.<\/p>\n