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'save autorecover' spontaneously resets to 10 minutes, why?
I use very large Word documents that take 10 to 30 seconds to save, and am in
the habit of manually saving every few minutes as I reach a suitable pause. I often have several of these large documents open at once. On my versions of Word 97, 2000 and 2002 I have tried either to disable 'autorecover', or set it for a longer time interval, so that it does not do its 'save autorecover' at inopportune moments. Word, however, often spontaneously resets this feature to 10 minutes whatever I set it to! With several large documents open this 'save autorecover' can stop the PC for half a minute or so every few minutes, as the saves are out of phase; very annoying indeed. The spontaneous resets do not always occur, but happen frequently enough to be very frustrating. I am quite happy manually to save as I am in completely in the habit of it, and I do not want the annoyance of having to face a frozen screen every few minutes, so how can I disable 'save autorecover' such that it stays disabled? This phenomenon occurs on the three PCs I use. All run fully updated XP and Word. |
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Hi Suzanne
I was not able to turn autorecover off and have it stay turned off, but after deleting the registry key as described in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm, as you recommended, it seems that now I can. It is too early to say whether or not this state of affairs is permanent, but it is a very good start. Many thanks for your help, and I'll come back to the forum if the problem recurs. Charles Harvey "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You should be able to turn AutoRecover (which, BTW, is not an actual save) entirely. If Word is not saving your settings, then it may be that your Word Data key needs to be rebuilt. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Harvey" Charles wrote in message ... I use very large Word documents that take 10 to 30 seconds to save, and am in the habit of manually saving every few minutes as I reach a suitable pause. I often have several of these large documents open at once. On my versions of Word 97, 2000 and 2002 I have tried either to disable 'autorecover', or set it for a longer time interval, so that it does not do its 'save autorecover' at inopportune moments. Word, however, often spontaneously resets this feature to 10 minutes whatever I set it to! With several large documents open this 'save autorecover' can stop the PC for half a minute or so every few minutes, as the saves are out of phase; very annoying indeed. The spontaneous resets do not always occur, but happen frequently enough to be very frustrating. I am quite happy manually to save as I am in completely in the habit of it, and I do not want the annoyance of having to face a frozen screen every few minutes, so how can I disable 'save autorecover' such that it stays disabled? This phenomenon occurs on the three PCs I use. All run fully updated XP and Word. |
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Hope that works for you! I'm curious about a document that takes so long to
save, though. I've had some pretty heavy-duty ones, and they still save more or less instantly. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Harvey" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne I was not able to turn autorecover off and have it stay turned off, but after deleting the registry key as described in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm, as you recommended, it seems that now I can. It is too early to say whether or not this state of affairs is permanent, but it is a very good start. Many thanks for your help, and I'll come back to the forum if the problem recurs. Charles Harvey "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You should be able to turn AutoRecover (which, BTW, is not an actual save) entirely. If Word is not saving your settings, then it may be that your Word Data key needs to be rebuilt. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Harvey" Charles wrote in message ... I use very large Word documents that take 10 to 30 seconds to save, and am in the habit of manually saving every few minutes as I reach a suitable pause. I often have several of these large documents open at once. On my versions of Word 97, 2000 and 2002 I have tried either to disable 'autorecover', or set it for a longer time interval, so that it does not do its 'save autorecover' at inopportune moments. Word, however, often spontaneously resets this feature to 10 minutes whatever I set it to! With several large documents open this 'save autorecover' can stop the PC for half a minute or so every few minutes, as the saves are out of phase; very annoying indeed. The spontaneous resets do not always occur, but happen frequently enough to be very frustrating. I am quite happy manually to save as I am in completely in the habit of it, and I do not want the annoyance of having to face a frozen screen every few minutes, so how can I disable 'save autorecover' such that it stays disabled? This phenomenon occurs on the three PCs I use. All run fully updated XP and Word. |
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Hi Suzanne
The mystery deepens! Deleting the registry key not only cures the 'autorecover spontananeous reset' problem, but also cures the 'word has encountered a problem and needs to close' problem when I save a document. Naturally I was very happy indeed with this situation as it completely transformed working with Word, until I found, on the second reboot of the PC, that Word had become recorrupted, and I was almost back to square one! It is very easy to delete this registry key prior to each Word session, however, so I am fairly happy with this system as a workaround, but it would be good permanently to cure the problem. I have not been able to discover what triggers the recorruption, as it does not happen at every reboot, and it has not yet happened on closing down Word and restarting it. I have used no other software during these experiments, although of course there is all the usual stuff running in the background. I will try disabling the antivirus software, Bullguard, and see if this helps (I don't use the web on the PC on which I do most word processing). If you have any suggestions for further investigation, they would be greatly appreciated. Incidentally the heavy weight files are between 100 and 150 Mb as they contain large numbers of embedded maps, in quite high resolution so that they can be up to an MB each. I need to embed them rather than link to them, as the files are used on several different computers. Regards Charles Harvey "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Hope that works for you! I'm curious about a document that takes so long to save, though. I've had some pretty heavy-duty ones, and they still save more or less instantly. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Harvey" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne I was not able to turn autorecover off and have it stay turned off, but after deleting the registry key as described in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm, as you recommended, it seems that now I can. It is too early to say whether or not this state of affairs is permanent, but it is a very good start. Many thanks for your help, and I'll come back to the forum if the problem recurs. Charles Harvey "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You should be able to turn AutoRecover (which, BTW, is not an actual save) entirely. If Word is not saving your settings, then it may be that your Word Data key needs to be rebuilt. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Harvey" Charles wrote in message ... I use very large Word documents that take 10 to 30 seconds to save, and am in the habit of manually saving every few minutes as I reach a suitable pause. I often have several of these large documents open at once. On my versions of Word 97, 2000 and 2002 I have tried either to disable 'autorecover', or set it for a longer time interval, so that it does not do its 'save autorecover' at inopportune moments. Word, however, often spontaneously resets this feature to 10 minutes whatever I set it to! With several large documents open this 'save autorecover' can stop the PC for half a minute or so every few minutes, as the saves are out of phase; very annoying indeed. The spontaneous resets do not always occur, but happen frequently enough to be very frustrating. I am quite happy manually to save as I am in completely in the habit of it, and I do not want the annoyance of having to face a frozen screen every few minutes, so how can I disable 'save autorecover' such that it stays disabled? This phenomenon occurs on the three PCs I use. All run fully updated XP and Word. |
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My guess is that a corrupted normal.dot is re-corrupting the registry
entries. Have you tried renaming normal.dot? I didn't see it mentioned in the chain of messages mentioned below. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "Charles Harvey" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne The mystery deepens! Deleting the registry key not only cures the 'autorecover spontananeous reset' problem, but also cures the 'word has encountered a problem and needs to close' problem when I save a document. Naturally I was very happy indeed with this situation as it completely transformed working with Word, until I found, on the second reboot of the PC, that Word had become recorrupted, and I was almost back to square one! It is very easy to delete this registry key prior to each Word session, however, so I am fairly happy with this system as a workaround, but it would be good permanently to cure the problem. I have not been able to discover what triggers the recorruption, as it does not happen at every reboot, and it has not yet happened on closing down Word and restarting it. I have used no other software during these experiments, although of course there is all the usual stuff running in the background. I will try disabling the antivirus software, Bullguard, and see if this helps (I don't use the web on the PC on which I do most word processing). If you have any suggestions for further investigation, they would be greatly appreciated. Incidentally the heavy weight files are between 100 and 150 Mb as they contain large numbers of embedded maps, in quite high resolution so that they can be up to an MB each. I need to embed them rather than link to them, as the files are used on several different computers. Regards Charles Harvey "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Hope that works for you! I'm curious about a document that takes so long to save, though. I've had some pretty heavy-duty ones, and they still save more or less instantly. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Harvey" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne I was not able to turn autorecover off and have it stay turned off, but after deleting the registry key as described in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm, as you recommended, it seems that now I can. It is too early to say whether or not this state of affairs is permanent, but it is a very good start. Many thanks for your help, and I'll come back to the forum if the problem recurs. Charles Harvey "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You should be able to turn AutoRecover (which, BTW, is not an actual save) entirely. If Word is not saving your settings, then it may be that your Word Data key needs to be rebuilt. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Harvey" Charles wrote in message ... I use very large Word documents that take 10 to 30 seconds to save, and am in the habit of manually saving every few minutes as I reach a suitable pause. I often have several of these large documents open at once. On my versions of Word 97, 2000 and 2002 I have tried either to disable 'autorecover', or set it for a longer time interval, so that it does not do its 'save autorecover' at inopportune moments. Word, however, often spontaneously resets this feature to 10 minutes whatever I set it to! With several large documents open this 'save autorecover' can stop the PC for half a minute or so every few minutes, as the saves are out of phase; very annoying indeed. The spontaneous resets do not always occur, but happen frequently enough to be very frustrating. I am quite happy manually to save as I am in completely in the habit of it, and I do not want the annoyance of having to face a frozen screen every few minutes, so how can I disable 'save autorecover' such that it stays disabled? This phenomenon occurs on the three PCs I use. All run fully updated XP and Word. |
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Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it did not work. Word makes a new
normal.dot that gives the same problem. The essence of the situation is: I run Word 2000 on my laptop (Centrino 1.6) and on a desktop (AMD dual core). The problem with 'autorecover spontaneously resets to 10 minutes' occurred on both PCs until I deleted the Word Data registry key as recommended by Suzanne. On the laptop this deletion sems to have solved the problem completely asit has not reappeared after many reboots and openings of Word overf several days. It has also solved the 'word has encountered a problem and needs to shut down' message when saving file to hard disk. On the desktop, however, the deletion cures these two problems until the PC is shut down, but they reappear when it is restarted even into diagnostic startup mode. I simply don't know what to try next, and any advice will be gratefully received! Charles Harvey "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: My guess is that a corrupted normal.dot is re-corrupting the registry entries. Have you tried renaming normal.dot? I didn't see it mentioned in the chain of messages mentioned below. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "Charles Harvey" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne The mystery deepens! Deleting the registry key not only cures the 'autorecover spontananeous reset' problem, but also cures the 'word has encountered a problem and needs to close' problem when I save a document. Naturally I was very happy indeed with this situation as it completely transformed working with Word, until I found, on the second reboot of the PC, that Word had become recorrupted, and I was almost back to square one! It is very easy to delete this registry key prior to each Word session, however, so I am fairly happy with this system as a workaround, but it would be good permanently to cure the problem. I have not been able to discover what triggers the recorruption, as it does not happen at every reboot, and it has not yet happened on closing down Word and restarting it. I have used no other software during these experiments, although of course there is all the usual stuff running in the background. I will try disabling the antivirus software, Bullguard, and see if this helps (I don't use the web on the PC on which I do most word processing). If you have any suggestions for further investigation, they would be greatly appreciated. Incidentally the heavy weight files are between 100 and 150 Mb as they contain large numbers of embedded maps, in quite high resolution so that they can be up to an MB each. I need to embed them rather than link to them, as the files are used on several different computers. Regards Charles Harvey "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Hope that works for you! I'm curious about a document that takes so long to save, though. I've had some pretty heavy-duty ones, and they still save more or less instantly. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Harvey" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne I was not able to turn autorecover off and have it stay turned off, but after deleting the registry key as described in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm, as you recommended, it seems that now I can. It is too early to say whether or not this state of affairs is permanent, but it is a very good start. Many thanks for your help, and I'll come back to the forum if the problem recurs. Charles Harvey "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You should be able to turn AutoRecover (which, BTW, is not an actual save) entirely. If Word is not saving your settings, then it may be that your Word Data key needs to be rebuilt. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Harvey" Charles wrote in message ... I use very large Word documents that take 10 to 30 seconds to save, and am in the habit of manually saving every few minutes as I reach a suitable pause. I often have several of these large documents open at once. On my versions of Word 97, 2000 and 2002 I have tried either to disable 'autorecover', or set it for a longer time interval, so that it does not do its 'save autorecover' at inopportune moments. Word, however, often spontaneously resets this feature to 10 minutes whatever I set it to! With several large documents open this 'save autorecover' can stop the PC for half a minute or so every few minutes, as the saves are out of phase; very annoying indeed. The spontaneous resets do not always occur, but happen frequently enough to be very frustrating. I am quite happy manually to save as I am in completely in the habit of it, and I do not want the annoyance of having to face a frozen screen every few minutes, so how can I disable 'save autorecover' such that it stays disabled? This phenomenon occurs on the three PCs I use. All run fully updated XP and Word. |
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One final grasp...
In Word, check Tools - Templates and Add-ins, and see if you have any global templates or add-ins loaded. If you do, note their names & locations. Also, choose Tools - Options - File Locations, and note the location of your Startup folder. Close Word--Outlook, too, if it's running. Right-click a blank area in the taskbar and choose Task Manager. Click the Processes tab, and see if winword.exe is listed under Image Name. If it is, click it, then click End Process. Next, delete the Data key *and* rename/delete Normal.dot. If you had any other global templates or add-ins in Word, find them also, and move them to a different location (especially any that might be in Word's Startup folder). If the latter turn out to be the problem, we can deal with restoring any lost functionality. Next, do a search of your hard drive for all files named Normal.dot (you might have more than one), you should tell Windows Explorer to include hidden and system files in the search. If you find any, note the date/time the file(s) were last modified. If any were modified about the last time you closed Word, rename or delete them. Next, reboot, start Word, and see if the problem returns. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "Charles Harvey" wrote in message ... Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it did not work. Word makes a new normal.dot that gives the same problem. The essence of the situation is: I run Word 2000 on my laptop (Centrino 1.6) and on a desktop (AMD dual core). The problem with 'autorecover spontaneously resets to 10 minutes' occurred on both PCs until I deleted the Word Data registry key as recommended by Suzanne. On the laptop this deletion sems to have solved the problem completely asit has not reappeared after many reboots and openings of Word overf several days. It has also solved the 'word has encountered a problem and needs to shut down' message when saving file to hard disk. On the desktop, however, the deletion cures these two problems until the PC is shut down, but they reappear when it is restarted even into diagnostic startup mode. I simply don't know what to try next, and any advice will be gratefully received! Charles Harvey "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: My guess is that a corrupted normal.dot is re-corrupting the registry entries. Have you tried renaming normal.dot? I didn't see it mentioned in the chain of messages mentioned below. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "Charles Harvey" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne The mystery deepens! Deleting the registry key not only cures the 'autorecover spontananeous reset' problem, but also cures the 'word has encountered a problem and needs to close' problem when I save a document. Naturally I was very happy indeed with this situation as it completely transformed working with Word, until I found, on the second reboot of the PC, that Word had become recorrupted, and I was almost back to square one! It is very easy to delete this registry key prior to each Word session, however, so I am fairly happy with this system as a workaround, but it would be good permanently to cure the problem. I have not been able to discover what triggers the recorruption, as it does not happen at every reboot, and it has not yet happened on closing down Word and restarting it. I have used no other software during these experiments, although of course there is all the usual stuff running in the background. I will try disabling the antivirus software, Bullguard, and see if this helps (I don't use the web on the PC on which I do most word processing). If you have any suggestions for further investigation, they would be greatly appreciated. Incidentally the heavy weight files are between 100 and 150 Mb as they contain large numbers of embedded maps, in quite high resolution so that they can be up to an MB each. I need to embed them rather than link to them, as the files are used on several different computers. Regards Charles Harvey "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Hope that works for you! I'm curious about a document that takes so long to save, though. I've had some pretty heavy-duty ones, and they still save more or less instantly. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Harvey" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne I was not able to turn autorecover off and have it stay turned off, but after deleting the registry key as described in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm, as you recommended, it seems that now I can. It is too early to say whether or not this state of affairs is permanent, but it is a very good start. Many thanks for your help, and I'll come back to the forum if the problem recurs. Charles Harvey "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You should be able to turn AutoRecover (which, BTW, is not an actual save) entirely. If Word is not saving your settings, then it may be that your Word Data key needs to be rebuilt. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Harvey" Charles wrote in message ... I use very large Word documents that take 10 to 30 seconds to save, and am in the habit of manually saving every few minutes as I reach a suitable pause. I often have several of these large documents open at once. On my versions of Word 97, 2000 and 2002 I have tried either to disable 'autorecover', or set it for a longer time interval, so that it does not do its 'save autorecover' at inopportune moments. Word, however, often spontaneously resets this feature to 10 minutes whatever I set it to! With several large documents open this 'save autorecover' can stop the PC for half a minute or so every few minutes, as the saves are out of phase; very annoying indeed. The spontaneous resets do not always occur, but happen frequently enough to be very frustrating. I am quite happy manually to save as I am in completely in the habit of it, and I do not want the annoyance of having to face a frozen screen every few minutes, so how can I disable 'save autorecover' such that it stays disabled? This phenomenon occurs on the three PCs I use. All run fully updated XP and Word. |
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Hi Herb
Success! I followed your detailed instructions and Word is now functioning as it should, with both of the problems not reappearing after several reboots. I thought I had done something very similar after your first post, but the sequence must have been different. Many thanks Charles Harvey "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: One final grasp... In Word, check Tools - Templates and Add-ins, and see if you have any global templates or add-ins loaded. If you do, note their names & locations. Also, choose Tools - Options - File Locations, and note the location of your Startup folder. Close Word--Outlook, too, if it's running. Right-click a blank area in the taskbar and choose Task Manager. Click the Processes tab, and see if winword.exe is listed under Image Name. If it is, click it, then click End Process. Next, delete the Data key *and* rename/delete Normal.dot. If you had any other global templates or add-ins in Word, find them also, and move them to a different location (especially any that might be in Word's Startup folder). If the latter turn out to be the problem, we can deal with restoring any lost functionality. Next, do a search of your hard drive for all files named Normal.dot (you might have more than one), you should tell Windows Explorer to include hidden and system files in the search. If you find any, note the date/time the file(s) were last modified. If any were modified about the last time you closed Word, rename or delete them. Next, reboot, start Word, and see if the problem returns. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "Charles Harvey" wrote in message ... Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it did not work. Word makes a new normal.dot that gives the same problem. The essence of the situation is: I run Word 2000 on my laptop (Centrino 1.6) and on a desktop (AMD dual core). The problem with 'autorecover spontaneously resets to 10 minutes' occurred on both PCs until I deleted the Word Data registry key as recommended by Suzanne. On the laptop this deletion sems to have solved the problem completely asit has not reappeared after many reboots and openings of Word overf several days. It has also solved the 'word has encountered a problem and needs to shut down' message when saving file to hard disk. On the desktop, however, the deletion cures these two problems until the PC is shut down, but they reappear when it is restarted even into diagnostic startup mode. I simply don't know what to try next, and any advice will be gratefully received! Charles Harvey "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: My guess is that a corrupted normal.dot is re-corrupting the registry entries. Have you tried renaming normal.dot? I didn't see it mentioned in the chain of messages mentioned below. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "Charles Harvey" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne The mystery deepens! Deleting the registry key not only cures the 'autorecover spontananeous reset' problem, but also cures the 'word has encountered a problem and needs to close' problem when I save a document. Naturally I was very happy indeed with this situation as it completely transformed working with Word, until I found, on the second reboot of the PC, that Word had become recorrupted, and I was almost back to square one! It is very easy to delete this registry key prior to each Word session, however, so I am fairly happy with this system as a workaround, but it would be good permanently to cure the problem. I have not been able to discover what triggers the recorruption, as it does not happen at every reboot, and it has not yet happened on closing down Word and restarting it. I have used no other software during these experiments, although of course there is all the usual stuff running in the background. I will try disabling the antivirus software, Bullguard, and see if this helps (I don't use the web on the PC on which I do most word processing). If you have any suggestions for further investigation, they would be greatly appreciated. Incidentally the heavy weight files are between 100 and 150 Mb as they contain large numbers of embedded maps, in quite high resolution so that they can be up to an MB each. I need to embed them rather than link to them, as the files are used on several different computers. Regards Charles Harvey "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Hope that works for you! I'm curious about a document that takes so long to save, though. I've had some pretty heavy-duty ones, and they still save more or less instantly. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Harvey" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne I was not able to turn autorecover off and have it stay turned off, but after deleting the registry key as described in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm, as you recommended, it seems that now I can. It is too early to say whether or not this state of affairs is permanent, but it is a very good start. Many thanks for your help, and I'll come back to the forum if the problem recurs. Charles Harvey "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You should be able to turn AutoRecover (which, BTW, is not an actual save) entirely. If Word is not saving your settings, then it may be that your Word Data key needs to be rebuilt. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Charles Harvey" Charles wrote in message ... I use very large Word documents that take 10 to 30 seconds to save, and am in the habit of manually saving every few minutes as I reach a suitable pause. I often have several of these large documents open at once. On my versions of Word 97, 2000 and 2002 I have tried either to disable 'autorecover', or set it for a longer time interval, so that it does not do its 'save autorecover' at inopportune moments. Word, however, often spontaneously resets this feature to 10 minutes whatever I set it to! With several large documents open this 'save autorecover' can stop the PC for half a minute or so every few minutes, as the saves are out of phase; very annoying indeed. The spontaneous resets do not always occur, but happen frequently enough to be very frustrating. I am quite happy manually to save as I am in completely in the habit of it, and I do not want the annoyance of having to face a frozen screen every few minutes, so how can I disable 'save autorecover' such that it stays disabled? This phenomenon occurs on the three PCs I use. All run fully updated XP and Word. |
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