Home Publishing hangs in Windows XP

[TheGuy]

I have Microsoft Home Publishing 2000 installed under Windows XP Home
Edition/Service Pack 2. It was working fine until last week. Now whenever i
try to use any of the commands in the menu bar (File, Edit, etc.) it hangs.
If I want to make several versions of a file in differing colors I can't use
the "Save As" function in the menu bar. Is there a software fix for this?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Home Publishing is not Publisher. You'll do better if you post your question
in the proper newsgroup.

 

[John Inzer]

I have Microsoft Home Publishing 2000 installed under
Windows XP Home Edition/Service Pack 2. It was working
fine until last week. Now whenever i try to use any of
the commands in the menu bar (File, Edit, etc.) it hangs.
If I want to make several versions of a file in differing
colors I can't use the "Save As" function in the menu
bar. Is there a software fix for this?

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Do you receive an error?

May be worth a try to uninstall/reinstall the progam.

Have you done routine maintenance recently?

Running Disk Cleanup, Error Checking and
Defrag on a regular schedule is a good idea.

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

(315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
(check the two boxes..."Automatically fix file
system errors" and "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors") the utility will run
the next time you restart your computer.
(run error checking repeatedly until it finds
no errors)

(314848) How to Defragment Your Disk
Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848

It would be best if you post your MS Home
Publishing questions in one of the following
groups:

microsoft.public.home.publishing

microsoft.public.pictureit