Excel 2000 locks up whole machine on startup.

[Maurice Bishop]

Problem - start Excel 2000 and the whole machine locks up after splash
screen.

Environment: PIII 700MHz with 11 Gb disk free, 256 MB RAM, Win98 SE. Good
up-to-date virus scanner in place.

Efforts made to resolve problem:

1. Removed Office 2000.
2. Ran RegClean 4.1a.
3. Removed C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office
3. Rebooted and reinstalled Office 2000.

Same problem.

Much hair collecting on floor.

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

Maurice