[AccessD] OT: O97 apps freeze Win2K sp4

Your network guy has been spending too much time watching "reality shows".
He's now departed from the realm of the real world we all live in.

O97 runs just fine under all versions of Windows from 95 to XP.

As to why Word is freezing up...

Any of these user's got a CD in the CD-ROM drive that happens to be a dud?
Maybe they have a drive mapped to a bad network share? (I'm clutching at
straws here <g>). Are they sharing anything on someone else's machine (like
a local printer on Machine X being shared out to Machine Y). Did you check
the shortcut that they are using to launch Word? Does it actually point to
winword.exe on *their* PC? Sometimes you can find a shortcut pointing to the
executable on another machine, and because all the other files are loaded
locally, the 'remote' progie will run. Have you tried simply removing Office
97 and re-installing it on the affected machines?

Lambert

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jim DeMarco [SMTP:Jdemarco at hshhp.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 18, 2003 12:49 PM
> To:	AccessD (E-mail)
> Subject:	[AccessD] OT: O97 apps freeze Win2K sp4
> 
> Has anyone encountered any problems with Word freezing on opening when
> using O97 on Win2K sp4?  We seem to be having trouble with a couple of
> workstations where this is happening.  Word will freeze for 3 or 4 minutes
> then startup and run normally.  A second issue with the same users is when
> they save a file the same freeze happens.  All of our users PCs are set to
> save to My Documents folder which is mapped to a network share.  I have
> sp4 and do not have any problems at all.  I've also not heard about this
> previously.  
> Our notwork guys want us to upgrade to O2K3 as result of this sporadic
> issue claiming that O97 is not optimized for Win2K and was never meant to
> run on it.  Can there be any truth to that?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Jim 
> 
> 
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