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I've been using Office 2007 Beta ever since the first release ... Microsoft has continously improved upon it, I really like the software. I have recently installed the newest TR that came out, and have been having a ton of problems with it. It does run a lot faster now, most functions are smoother, no lagging, a lot of bugfixes. BUT, Word has corrupted a lot of my existing DOCX files and I can't open them anymore, when I start Word there's an error about a missing XML template, and Outlook starts crashing at startup after several reboots ... Anybody have these symptoms, and if so anybody knows if it's an Office 2007 problem or something with my hardware / software configuration? Thanks, Umpa

Is it worth it? Money is of no importance ... I'm considering to buy Win2k3 and use the MSFN guide to run it as my desktop / laptop OS. Or should I just go with Win XP Pro Sp2 and maybe wait for Vista... ? I mostly use my PCs for school, research and work = 3D CAD, CFD applications, big numerical solvers, Office, Photoshop, Video, DVD.. .Every now and then I play some games. Also, has anyone read / heard of uberPLAY's mod "Windows XP Workstation Premium" and whether it would be worth putting time into installing / creating something like his mod? REMOVED LINK THanks, Umpa

Will do. Thanks, Umpa

Thanks for the replies, guys. I tried Dial-A-Fix without any success. Regarding the downloaded, slipstreamed versions of Windows, I'm pretty sure it's legal to download them as long as I own a legit license and key for the product and don't install it on more than one computer. Anyway, the reason why I download those versions is because the original media I have is not OEM, but they are recovery CD's from Dell for my laptop, Compaq for my Desktop. And as we all know, the recovery CD's are full of bloatware. Besides, I've had all these problems with the original setup, as well, before even formatting everything. It seems to depend on the interaction between some of the software I install and windows ... I really don't know. Thanks so far! Umpa

Sup guys, Just registered here to try and get some help on my issue. I've been having this issue on two different computers (an older AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Desktop PC, and my brand new Dell E1705 laptop with Intel CPU), so I guess it's a software issue, not a hardware-compatibility problem. I'm running Windows XP Sp2 on my PCs - I have legit, original product keys for the OS, but I downloaded several slipstreamed versions of XP (slipstreamed with Sp2, other hotfixes, etc.). I run the installation just fine, depending on which version of XP I install I might have to do some driver troubleshooting, but overall the installation is smooth. First thing I do after Win Xp is set up, I run the Nvidia drivers for my card (GeForce GO 7900GS or GeForce 7300GS, respectively). Everything's fine till here. Then I start installing my software: - Winamp - Firefox 1.5 (or Firefox 2 Beta 2) - Office 2007 Beta 2 TR (used to install Office 2003, same problems) - Pro/Engineer w/ PTC license server - MATLAB R2006 - Hummingbird Exceed 11 - Fluent GAMBIT - Fluent SOLVER - Adobe Creative Suite CS2 (only Acrobat and Photoshop) - few games every now and then (have no effect on problem) Here's where the problems start. I don't exactly know at what point. But almost all of the software I install starts giving me runtime errors at startup. It started with Winamp. After a while of googling I found that the ICM32.dll had something to do with it. So I managed to download that dll and put it into the Winamp folder, and the problem was gone. Hummingbird Exceed was having the same problem, which I fixed with the same dll. Other software is having different problems: - Adobe Acrobat / Distiller crashes when it tries to create a PDF file. - Pro/Engineer crashes, at startup, with a runtime error on the main executable (no dll involved apparently) - Americas Army crashes at startup with a runtime error - ... and so on ... I don't know what is going on. I am desperate, I've formated and reinstalled my laptop exactly 16 times since I've gotten it (3 weeks), which is ridiculous. I tried reburning image files thinking the burn process corrupted data, I redownloaded some image files, I used an old original Win Xp CD ... Same problem every time. If anyone has ever had similar issues and found a cause, please please please post here! I need my laptop for my research work and other classes and for work, too ... I can't keep doing this. Thanks, Umpa