warrenpenalver Report post Posted May 13, 2008 Hi!! Last year i spent millions on office xp. This year after smashing my old laptop i bought a Windows Visata computer and proceeded to install office xp making assumption microsoft products would be inter compatable. How wrong i was!!!!! MS Word crashes regularly every 5 minutes and the other office packages every 10-15minutes. I have Vista SP1 and its not improved. Any ideas? or is this a deliberate ploy by microsoft to force me to upgrade my office package??? I find this unreasonable considering the cost of the software and the fact ive had only a years use out of office xp. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
justamum Report post Posted May 13, 2008 I had no trouble but then mine is an old XP office disk. However I did have trouble with Vista and crashing regulary and resetting in the beginning but after it had download all the updates it's fine now. My Daughters vista, slightly newer than mine (insurance after someone dropped her old one ) has no such problems Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
xilef Report post Posted May 13, 2008 The Vista Aero theme uses enough CPU to stop a program running entirely and make the ones that do crash. Go into Control Panel --> Personalization --> Window Colour and Appearance --> Open Classic Appearance properties for more color options --> Windows Vista Basic --> Apply --> OK This loses the CPU Thieving glassy/transparency effects on your windows and programs, it frees the CPU from 90% to 5% with a 1gig RAM computer and allows more CPU to be used with programs such as office. If that doesn't work, right click on the icon of your office program, go to compatibility, select Windows XP SP2 and Administrator and then apply. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted May 13, 2008 Vista is evil. That is all I know about techie stuff. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
warrenpenalver Report post Posted May 15, 2008 Vista is evil. I agree!!!!!!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
xilef Report post Posted May 19, 2008 (Sorry to necro-post by 4 days) Have you got it working yet? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fiorelli Report post Posted May 28, 2008 Can't help I'm afraid, just wanted to say that I use OpenOffice - all the benefits/products of MS Office, but for free! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
warrenpenalver Report post Posted May 28, 2008 still no better :wallbash: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pearl Report post Posted May 28, 2008 Can't help I'm afraid, just wanted to say that I use OpenOffice - all the benefits/products of MS Office, but for free! Yup we use OpenOffice too, mr p never pays for anything if he can help it. Free anti virus etc too, & touch wood we've never been zapped. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
