can't open office 2000 documents

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mwray59

Help, No matter what office document I'm in, if I browse for files to open I
lock up. up. If I go to my computer and click on the file then it will open
in the correct office document. If I try to save as it locks up. I did all
the updates. I recently installed Norton 2006 antispyware. However, this
didn't start happening till a few days later. Any suggestions??????????
 
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Barry Watzman

The question has been answered here several times today. Look backwards
and you will find the solution, which is to remove a defective Microsoft
security update that was released on Tuesday (and which was
automatically installed if you have automatic live updates turned on).
 
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mwray59

mwray59 said:
Help, No matter what office document I'm in, if I browse for files to open I
lock up. up. If I go to my computer and click on the file then it will open
in the correct office document. If I try to save as it locks up. I did all
the updates. I recently installed Norton 2006 antispyware. However, this
didn't start happening till a few days later. Any suggestions??????????
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Thank you thank you thank you!!!!! I had read a post earlier that said to do
system restore, however, that didn't work as updates are not seen as changes
that restore can go back to. I did find your earlier post, with step by step
instructions. It worked like a charm. :)
 
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mwray59

Ok I did that last night and now I can open office documents, however, I'm
locking up in save. Is there another security update to delete?
 
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deebs

OMG I hope not

I'm about to rearrange a stack of 4 hard drives in the hope to cool one
down thinking it may somehow be related (see my post about Word sulking)
 
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mwray59

I went and checked the control panel for updates, and low and behold the
Kb908531 was BACK! I removed it again, but fear with automatic updates it's
just going to keep coming back.
 
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Tom [Pepper] Willett

Yes, with automatic updates it will keep coming back.

|I went and checked the control panel for updates, and low and behold the
| Kb908531 was BACK! I removed it again, but fear with automatic updates
it's
| just going to keep coming back.
|
| "deebs" wrote:
|
| > OMG I hope not
| >
| > I'm about to rearrange a stack of 4 hard drives in the hope to cool one
| > down thinking it may somehow be related (see my post about Word sulking)
| >
| > mwray59 wrote:
| > > Ok I did that last night and now I can open office documents, however,
I'm
| > > locking up in save. Is there another security update to delete?
| > >
| > > "mwray59" wrote:
| > >
| > >>
| > >> "mwray59" wrote:
| > >>
| > >>> Help, No matter what office document I'm in, if I browse for files
to open I
| > >>> lock up. up. If I go to my computer and click on the file then it
will open
| > >>> in the correct office document. If I try to save as it locks up. I
did all
| > >>> the updates. I recently installed Norton 2006 antispyware. However,
this
| > >>> didn't start happening till a few days later. Any
suggestions??????????
| > >> Thank you thank you thank you!!!!! I had read a post earlier that
said to do
| > >> system restore, however, that didn't work as updates are not seen as
changes
| > >> that restore can go back to. I did find your earlier post, with step
by step
| > >> instructions. It worked like a charm. :)
| >
 
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