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Anonymous
Nov 6th, 2003, 07:52 PM
Word quit working in a big way on my mom's computer, with Windows 98, the other day. Now, whenever you try to load it, the computer locks up and says that it's dangerously low on resources. I can't even run Word in safe mode.

I tried reinstalling it, and uninstalling and installing it again, but nothing has worked. Anyone have an answer?
AChimp
Nov 6th, 2003, 10:49 PM
You're just the man with all the problems now, aren't you? >:
Anonymous
Nov 6th, 2003, 11:59 PM
Yes. Yes I am. Now answer me!
AChimp
Nov 7th, 2003, 12:00 AM
How much free space is on the hard drive? Windows likes a big chunk of empty space for it's swap file, so I'm thinking that might be the problem.
Schimid
Nov 7th, 2003, 12:05 AM
Word.
AChimp
Nov 7th, 2003, 12:07 AM
Face it, Boogs. You might have to part with your beast porn collection. :(
Anonymous
Nov 7th, 2003, 01:02 AM
Never.


And there's 2.25 Gb of free space left.
soundtest
Nov 7th, 2003, 01:17 AM
Win98? Which version of Word or Office is it? Was it updated at all or anything recently?
Anonymous
Nov 11th, 2003, 11:30 PM
It's Word 2000, and to my knowledge, it hasn't been updated at all.
LacrimansTaurne
Nov 12th, 2003, 12:50 AM
I had a problem similar to this a few years back and turned out that a virus had caused the problem.
Command Prompt
Nov 12th, 2003, 02:34 AM
Same Here.

I think the REAL problem is that you are using windows 98.
Anonymous
Nov 14th, 2003, 11:17 AM
Anyone else have an idea?
Protoclown
Nov 14th, 2003, 01:08 PM
That's a strange one, Doc. Have you actually checked for viruses yet with updated virus definitions?
soundtest
Nov 14th, 2003, 04:23 PM
Sounds more like a Windows problem. When I had trouble like that I'd usually just format. :/