Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Vista and Office 2007

Recently I met a strange problem of Word 2007 installed on the Vista ultimate. It suddenly cannot open files if the Word is not open already. The error message is like it cannot find the path"..\....\*.doc(x)" and make sure the file name is correct.

Now the problem has been fixed without knowing the root cause after I modified the system environmental variable TEMP to the same one as in the user variable (mine are different in the first place) , and then modified it back to "%systemroot%\TEMP". I am still not 100% sure this is the cause. However, a very possible cause I figure would be that you open the file too soon before the Vista finished "cache" the thumbnail of each folder visualized as the green bar process on the top of the window explorer.

A Vista with powerful CPU might not suffer such "error" since the green bar goes much faster. Nevertheless, if it still happens, try to remove any add-ons.

In conclusion, try three ways:
1. Check environmental variables
2. Open the file later
3. Remove any add-ons

Wow..the problem is gone. Wish you as good luck as me!

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