Just an initial guess...

First, with excel closed.
Clean up your window temp folder
Windows start button|run
type:
%temp%
and clean up as much as you can.
Then try opening excel.


If that didn't work, maybe it's your excel toolbar file that's causing the
trouble.

With excel closed
windows start button|search
look for *.xlb
Keep track of what you find and where you find them and move the files to a
temporary folder.
Then try opening excel.


If that didn't work, maybe it's an addin that's causing the trouble.

Chip Pearson has some notes on how to diagnose startup errors:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

And Jan Karel Pieterse has more notes:
http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/StartupProblems.asp

Mike Rogers wrote:

I get the following error when I start excel:

"Microsoft excel for windows has stopped working. A problem caused the
program to stop working correctly, windows will close the program and notify
you if a solution is available."

This is XL2K running on Vista Home

I have tried:

1. Uninstalling and reinstalling
2. Repairing
3. Unreg & reg
4. Restore
5. it will load in safe mode

I have not add any new programs, but the normal updates are done
automatically.

Any one got any ideas?

Mike Rogers

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Dave Peterson