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MS Word starting when Windows starts
I have Windows XP and MS Office XP loaded on my PC. Whenever I boot up the
PC, 3 sessions of MS Word open - 2 sessions have a new (blank) document open, and the 3rd session just shows Word as being open (no new document). I went to Documents and Settings | Application Data | Microsoft | Word | Startup to see if there was anything in the folder prompting Word to open the 3 sessions. The folder was empty. This problem didn't exist before today and I haven't made any changes to the software or any of the systems settings. How can I put an end to Word opening up these sessions?? Any information would be greatly appreciated. -- Thanks, getravel (Mike) |
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Okay, let's get the Startup thing out of the way. Anything in Word's startup
folder would startup when Word launches, not the other way around. Try this: Start--Run and type: msconfig and hit Enter. Now go to the Startup tab. Is Winword.exe in there? Seems it oughtta be in there not once, not twice, but 3 times. Get it out of there. Uncheck it. Save, close, reboot to test. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "getravel" wrote in message ... I have Windows XP and MS Office XP loaded on my PC. Whenever I boot up the PC, 3 sessions of MS Word open - 2 sessions have a new (blank) document open, and the 3rd session just shows Word as being open (no new document). I went to Documents and Settings | Application Data | Microsoft | Word | Startup to see if there was anything in the folder prompting Word to open the 3 sessions. The folder was empty. This problem didn't exist before today and I haven't made any changes to the software or any of the systems settings. How can I put an end to Word opening up these sessions?? Any information would be greatly appreciated. -- Thanks, getravel (Mike) |
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Good morning Anne,
thanks for writing. I too would have thought Winword.exe would have been in there three times, but after checking where you suggested, it's not in there - not even once. Microsoft Office is in there, as a Common Startup - as it should be. Your suggestion prompted me to perform a search for Winword.exe on my hard drive. What I found are the following, but I'm unsure which, if any, I can delete. Do you know which ones I should delete?? WINWORD8.DOC located in C:\WINDOWS\ShellNew WINWORD.EXE located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11 Again, any info you can share is appreciated. Thanks, getravel (Mike) "Anne Troy" wrote: Okay, let's get the Startup thing out of the way. Anything in Word's startup folder would startup when Word launches, not the other way around. Try this: Start--Run and type: msconfig and hit Enter. Now go to the Startup tab. Is Winword.exe in there? Seems it oughtta be in there not once, not twice, but 3 times. Get it out of there. Uncheck it. Save, close, reboot to test. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "getravel" wrote in message ... I have Windows XP and MS Office XP loaded on my PC. Whenever I boot up the PC, 3 sessions of MS Word open - 2 sessions have a new (blank) document open, and the 3rd session just shows Word as being open (no new document). I went to Documents and Settings | Application Data | Microsoft | Word | Startup to see if there was anything in the folder prompting Word to open the 3 sessions. The folder was empty. This problem didn't exist before today and I haven't made any changes to the software or any of the systems settings. How can I put an end to Word opening up these sessions?? Any information would be greatly appreciated. -- Thanks, getravel (Mike) |
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No. Both of those are okay. This is bizarre. Please check your other tabs on
the msconfig for something to do with Winword. Also, you might want to ask in a Windows newsgroup. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "getravel" wrote in message ... Good morning Anne, thanks for writing. I too would have thought Winword.exe would have been in there three times, but after checking where you suggested, it's not in there - not even once. Microsoft Office is in there, as a Common Startup - as it should be. Your suggestion prompted me to perform a search for Winword.exe on my hard drive. What I found are the following, but I'm unsure which, if any, I can delete. Do you know which ones I should delete?? WINWORD8.DOC located in C:\WINDOWS\ShellNew WINWORD.EXE located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11 Again, any info you can share is appreciated. Thanks, getravel (Mike) "Anne Troy" wrote: Okay, let's get the Startup thing out of the way. Anything in Word's startup folder would startup when Word launches, not the other way around. Try this: Start--Run and type: msconfig and hit Enter. Now go to the Startup tab. Is Winword.exe in there? Seems it oughtta be in there not once, not twice, but 3 times. Get it out of there. Uncheck it. Save, close, reboot to test. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "getravel" wrote in message ... I have Windows XP and MS Office XP loaded on my PC. Whenever I boot up the PC, 3 sessions of MS Word open - 2 sessions have a new (blank) document open, and the 3rd session just shows Word as being open (no new document). I went to Documents and Settings | Application Data | Microsoft | Word | Startup to see if there was anything in the folder prompting Word to open the 3 sessions. The folder was empty. This problem didn't exist before today and I haven't made any changes to the software or any of the systems settings. How can I put an end to Word opening up these sessions?? Any information would be greatly appreciated. -- Thanks, getravel (Mike) |
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Anne,
even though we didn't resolve my issue, I thank you so much for all your effort. I checked the other tabs on msconfig, but still, I didn't find any references to Winword. I will indeed write to the Windows newsgroup. Thanks again and have a great weekend. -- getravel (Mike) "Anne Troy" wrote: No. Both of those are okay. This is bizarre. Please check your other tabs on the msconfig for something to do with Winword. Also, you might want to ask in a Windows newsgroup. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "getravel" wrote in message ... Good morning Anne, thanks for writing. I too would have thought Winword.exe would have been in there three times, but after checking where you suggested, it's not in there - not even once. Microsoft Office is in there, as a Common Startup - as it should be. Your suggestion prompted me to perform a search for Winword.exe on my hard drive. What I found are the following, but I'm unsure which, if any, I can delete. Do you know which ones I should delete?? WINWORD8.DOC located in C:\WINDOWS\ShellNew WINWORD.EXE located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11 Again, any info you can share is appreciated. Thanks, getravel (Mike) "Anne Troy" wrote: Okay, let's get the Startup thing out of the way. Anything in Word's startup folder would startup when Word launches, not the other way around. Try this: Start--Run and type: msconfig and hit Enter. Now go to the Startup tab. Is Winword.exe in there? Seems it oughtta be in there not once, not twice, but 3 times. Get it out of there. Uncheck it. Save, close, reboot to test. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "getravel" wrote in message ... I have Windows XP and MS Office XP loaded on my PC. Whenever I boot up the PC, 3 sessions of MS Word open - 2 sessions have a new (blank) document open, and the 3rd session just shows Word as being open (no new document). I went to Documents and Settings | Application Data | Microsoft | Word | Startup to see if there was anything in the folder prompting Word to open the 3 sessions. The folder was empty. This problem didn't exist before today and I haven't made any changes to the software or any of the systems settings. How can I put an end to Word opening up these sessions?? Any information would be greatly appreciated. -- Thanks, getravel (Mike) |
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You too, Mike!
******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "getravel" wrote in message ... Anne, even though we didn't resolve my issue, I thank you so much for all your effort. I checked the other tabs on msconfig, but still, I didn't find any references to Winword. I will indeed write to the Windows newsgroup. Thanks again and have a great weekend. -- getravel (Mike) "Anne Troy" wrote: No. Both of those are okay. This is bizarre. Please check your other tabs on the msconfig for something to do with Winword. Also, you might want to ask in a Windows newsgroup. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "getravel" wrote in message ... Good morning Anne, thanks for writing. I too would have thought Winword.exe would have been in there three times, but after checking where you suggested, it's not in there - not even once. Microsoft Office is in there, as a Common Startup - as it should be. Your suggestion prompted me to perform a search for Winword.exe on my hard drive. What I found are the following, but I'm unsure which, if any, I can delete. Do you know which ones I should delete?? WINWORD8.DOC located in C:\WINDOWS\ShellNew WINWORD.EXE located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11 Again, any info you can share is appreciated. Thanks, getravel (Mike) "Anne Troy" wrote: Okay, let's get the Startup thing out of the way. Anything in Word's startup folder would startup when Word launches, not the other way around. Try this: Start--Run and type: msconfig and hit Enter. Now go to the Startup tab. Is Winword.exe in there? Seems it oughtta be in there not once, not twice, but 3 times. Get it out of there. Uncheck it. Save, close, reboot to test. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "getravel" wrote in message ... I have Windows XP and MS Office XP loaded on my PC. Whenever I boot up the PC, 3 sessions of MS Word open - 2 sessions have a new (blank) document open, and the 3rd session just shows Word as being open (no new document). I went to Documents and Settings | Application Data | Microsoft | Word | Startup to see if there was anything in the folder prompting Word to open the 3 sessions. The folder was empty. This problem didn't exist before today and I haven't made any changes to the software or any of the systems settings. How can I put an end to Word opening up these sessions?? Any information would be greatly appreciated. -- Thanks, getravel (Mike) |
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