Why is my system low on resources?

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i m using MS Office 2003, when i open ms word, my system hangs. my system is very fast, 40 gb hard disk and 224 mb RAM, 2.19 GHZ... problem lies only with ms word opening. others ms excel, access working in a rite manner. i give print command from word and system hangs for almost 10 minutes and prints come out after 15 minutes. pls help me. i have format all my drives and make partitions again but this dont solve the problem. i m usign symentac antivirus

Hello to all,

I have solved the problem with Excel crashing. I did not have to re-install Excel or Windows 98. Here is the detail of the problem, below, and the FIX! I wanted to share this with everybody. Read on!

Note: I have Windows 98, 2nd Edition Q239887 update (latest).

My Problem:
When I open an Excel file and click on the Print Preview button and then click the “Close” button I get the following error message:

“EXCEL caused a general protection fault in module USER.EXE at 0006:000056f4”.

Other times, when I open Excel and then to close Excel, I get the following error message:

“The system is dangerously low on resources. Would you like to terminate the following application?
• explorer"

When I click yes, I repeatedly get the same error message with the following applications listed in succession:
• Imgicon
• Systray
• Adusermon
• Cgmenu
• Cg16eh
• Cg32eh

Upon Google searching on these error messages, I found the following solutions, which I have tried AND IT WORKS!!!!

Problem: EXCEL caused a general protection fault in module USER.EXE at 003:00003d32. (Similar error to mine).

Fix: Open windows explorer. Do a search for "*.xlb" without the quotes. When the file is found, delete this file. Now open up Excel. The .xlb file is your menu settings. When you reopen excel, it will create a new .xlb file.

When I did a file search for *.xlb, only one file turned up, which was found under C:\WINDOWS\. In my case, the file name was “PII 3508.xlb”.

I tried it… this worked! Awesome!

Now, it's on to trying to figure out my music software glitch.

John

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