[David]

Hello Everyone,

This is an old story but the old fixes don't work. I have Word 2000 on a
Windows XP machine (Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook all open fine). When I try to
open Word it hangs and then when I try to close it it makes a White screen.

I can go into Task Manager and kill the Winword.exe to "shutdown" Word.
I can go into Winword.exe /a immediately
This issue happens on multiple profiles

I deleted the Normal.DOT
I backed up and removed DATA key under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Word
- I also removed the full WORD key (which made it go through the
registration but failed to open still)

Since this issue happens in more than one profile I know I need to focus on
the HKey_Local_Machine instead of Current_User but not sure what next to do.
I see articles that say that even uninstalling and reinstalling has not
cleared it up but I am unsure if that is because they left parts in the
Registry.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.