Windows 7 Problems

[RWebb]

I am NOT liking the "upgrade" to Win 7 (from XP) at all, and am having a whole bunch of unhappiness, which searches of various computer forums (fora?) are not helping with.

Many involve issues with Office 2003. I had to upgrade from Office 2000 (which worked fine on XP on a different computer) to Orifice 2003. I had previously installed Orifice 2000 on my current Win 7 machine, but it did not work, so I then had to uninstall it and buy and install Orifice 2003. I wonder if some problems may come about b/c Office 2003 did not uninstall completely.

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Ok, my first problem is that when I start up Excel 2003 I get an error saying "personal.xls already open."

I checked and there is ONLY a single file named personal.xls on this computer. It is not networked to anything other computers.

Any ideas?

[rusnak]

Randy,

I am running Office 2002 with no problems at all. In fact, I'm on a Windows 7 machine right now, and switch back and forth files etc from Windows XP to Windows 7 seamlessly.

What kind of problems are you having? Have you tried running XP mode? (p.s. I bought Windows 7 professional because I have a ton of XP programs and files)

[Scott R]

Try "window > unhide" to see if it's actually open. That file is your custom macro sheet, do you use a lot of custom macros?

[red-beard]

Delete it after copying it to a new file name/

[968rz]

+1 on Red's suggestion.

[azasadny]

I've been running Windows 7 for quite awhile and with several different versions of Office and I've never had a single problem. I didn't do the "upgrade", I did a full , clean install, which is always preferable.

[Eric Coffey]

I'm running Office 2010 Pro Plus (32-bit version) on Windows 7 (64-bit) with no issues, other than the information overload with all of the new programs/features/interfaces (coming from Office Pro 2003). You might consider the upgrade to 2010, as it is supposedly better suited to W7. The same goes for newer Adobe suites (CS5, Acrobat X, etc.). If you upgrade to Office 10 in the near future, I'd still stick with the 32-bit version, even on a 64-bit OS (unless you regulary deal with MASSIVE files).

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by red-beard

Delete it after copying it to a new file name/

OK, I copied it to a new file name in a different dir (a subdir under where it used to be) and it worked.

Why?

[slodave]

File could be corrupt.

[RWebb]

ok



Here is Question #2:




I set up some Libraries (since they are soooo..... great). But the Docs Lib has another damn thing under it called My Docs. Do I HAVE to have this redundancy?

(I realize that in the great scheme of things, this is a minor complaint... but hey it is Pelican OT)

Any way to get rid of it? I tried copying all the loose files in the 2nd (bottom) "My Docs" thing to the top one ("Docs") -- no go.

[slodave]

Yes. Documents is the library, My Documents is a folder where your main docs are kept.

[RWebb]

so, every Library has to have all files inside of various folders?

not allowed to have a Library with "loose" files in it?