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Joe T - 28 Jan 2007 20:44 GMT

Win98se. Just started happening. When I click the desktop Word icon-Word 2000
freezes computer up. Do ctrl-alt-del. End task. I get the "Insufficiant
system resources. Close other programs etc" in a long white box. End program
ok.Then if I go to open ANY other desktop item, I get the same message. I go
to the Start button, it comes up all blank. I then have to use reset to
reboot to use the desktop again.Then all fine except Word.

However if I access any Word document through My documents folder, all works
fine. Whats up??

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MEB - 28 Jan 2007 21:01 GMT

| Win98se. Just started happening. When I click the desktop Word icon-Word 2000
| freezes computer up. Do ctrl-alt-del. End task. I get the "Insufficiant
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| However if I access any Word document through My documents folder, all works
| fine. Whats up??

First, check your system for spyware, viruses, and hacks.

Second, check the link properties within the shortcut which your using.

Third:
http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?catalog=LCID%3D1033&spid=3251&q
uery=Insufficient+system+resources.+Close+other+programs&adv=&mode=s&cat=False

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Haggis - 29 Jan 2007 14:42 GMT

> | Win98se. Just started happening. When I click the desktop Word icon-Word
> 2000
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> Third:
> http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?catalog=LCID%3D1033&spid=3251&q
uery=Insufficient+system+resources.+Close+other+programs&adv=&mode=s&cat=False

youo may also try deleting the file "normal.dot" (default startup file for
word) it will be recreated on first run

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Gary S. Terhune - 29 Jan 2007 14:52 GMT

That would be my first guess.

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> > | Win98se. Just started happening. When I click the desktop Word icon-Word
> > 2000
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> >
> > Third:

http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?catalog=LCID%3D1033&spid=3251&q
uery=Insufficient+system+resources.+Close+other+programs&adv=&mode=s&cat=False

> youo may also try deleting the file "normal.dot" (default startup file for
> word) it will be recreated on first run

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MEB - 29 Jan 2007 17:48 GMT

| That would be my first guess.

Right, knew that would come, but looking for the "WHY" the normal.dot was
corrupted. Possibly a macro included with some downloaded doc, ...

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http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?catalog=LCID%3D1033&spid=3251&q
uery=Insufficient+system+resources.+Close+other+programs&adv=&mode=s&cat=False

| > youo may also try deleting the file "normal.dot" (default startup file for
| > word) it will be recreated on first run

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Gary S. Terhune - 29 Jan 2007 20:58 GMT

It's my understanding that anybody who's ever used Word much stops bothering
to question why normal.dot gets corrupted. It just does. And pretty often,
too, in some installations. I don't think it's due to any outside influence,
more due to Word itself. But you'd have to ask a Word expert to know for
sure.

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> | That would be my first guess.
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> | > > Third:

http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?catalog=LCID%3D1033&spid=3251&q
uery=Insufficient+system+resources.+Close+other+programs&adv=&mode=s&cat=False

> "real
> | > > world"
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> | > word) it will be recreated on first run

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Hugh Candlin - 29 Jan 2007 22:49 GMT

> It's my understanding that anybody who's ever used Word much stops bothering
> to question why normal.dot gets corrupted. It just does. And pretty often,
> too, in some installations. I don't think it's due to any outside influence,
> more due to Word itself. But you'd have to ask a Word expert to know for
> sure.

Normal.dot Template-Explained
by Dian Chapman, MVP, MOS

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=151

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Gary S. Terhune - 30 Jan 2007 02:32 GMT

Yeah, I figured Dian would have an article on that one. One of the best of
the MVP mold, AFAIC.

But that article really doesn't deal with the problem at hand, it only
explains the Normal.dot file. Towards the bottom are links that more
directly address our issue.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm
and it doesn't discuss the "why" of the corruption, either. All I know is
that it's like certain other things in Windows, especially things that
involve massive code bases, or huge banks of entries in the Registry, and
that's that, mostly due to the application itself, corruption happens. It's
a fact of life.

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> > It's my understanding that anybody who's ever used Word much stops bothering
> > to question why normal.dot gets corrupted. It just does. And pretty often,
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> http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=151

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