insert object,..crash!

SW 2003 sp4
W2000 sp3
When I try to insert an object (bmp, jpg,.etc) into a drawing, my computer
crashes totally! So it doesn't shut down only SW but the whole system goes
flat. I tried it in SW 2004 to, there the same problem!
What can be wrong!

 

Eric,

Sounds like something may be wrong with the Windows OLE32 files. MS products
(like office) sometimes overwrite the original system files. I've seen this
cause problems on more than one occasion. What OS are you running ? Does it
crash to a blue screen (NT, Win2000) ?

Regards

Mark

 

I have recently installed irfanview for viewing pictures, could this be
causing the problem?

| Paul,
|
| > Otherwise, if you do not have a paint program, you can try and resolve
| > this by installing M$ Photo Editor from the M$ Office CD, this should
| > resolve the OLE link.
|
| That's a bit of an esoteric fix, where'd you find that out ??
|
| Is that Office XP, or 2000 ? I don't recall seeing it on our 2000 CD's
|
|
| Mark
|
|

 

Eric,

I don't know anything about that program. Did SW it work properly prior to
installing it ?


Mark

 

Indeed everything is fine when you have installed photoeditor again!
But,.. as soon as you alter the preffered program to open the image files to
another program (in my case irfanview) it crashes again.
So I think i leave it this way and just use copy/paste to get the images in.
Thanks!