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Sahil Tandon
March 13, 2002
11:37 AM
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WINWORD.EXE |
| I only recently noticed that instances of WINWORD.EXE continue to exist in my Windows Task Manager even after I have closed MS Word. Why does this happen? Even after ending the task, I think the instances came back a few minutes later. Any feedback would be appreciated. |
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Rich Graves
March 13, 2002
12:32:08 PM
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Check your Startup folder for something to the effect "Microsoft
Office Quick Startup." This preloads some stuff in the background to
make it appear that Office loads less slowly than it does.Also check "scheduled tasks" or somesuch (it moves between windows
versions) for "Quick Find," which periodically indexes all files on
your machine. Such a process might fork off winword.exe to parse
.doc files into text that can be indexed. Finally, it's vaguely possible that you have something nasty that
calls itself winword.exe to avoid attracting attention to itself.
Run a find for unexpected copies of a file with that name.
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Aaron Rubin
March 13, 2002
12:43:07 PM
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Do you use Microsoft Outlook?
If you do then it might be something in your outlook settings.
Outlook will use word to write HTML emails so it often keeps
word running even after you quit.
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Sahil Tandon
March 13, 2002
03:39:58 PM
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I don't know why I didn't think of that myself! I opened Outlook once and it was set to edit messages via word. Thanks for the help guys.
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Steven Karel
Administrator
March 13, 2002
03:48:16 PM
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Disable "Quick Find" |
Can we dissuade you from writing HTML mails? I think they're a
bad habit that should be discouraged. The real reason I wanted to add to this thread is to second
Rich's suggestion about disabling the automatic "Quick Find"
indexing -- it can really slow down a Windows machine, and
most of the stuff that gets indexed is totally irrelevant.
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Sahil Tandon
March 13, 2002
04:06:35 PM
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Response to WINWORD.EXE |
| I have it set for "plain text" -- and I took Rich's suggestion and have already disabled "Quick Find".
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Steven Karel
Administrator
March 13, 2002
06:43:00 PM
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Sending mail in "Plain Text" by default |
| General comment not specifically intended for Sahil: On many mail programs, you have to adjust at least 2 preference settings to prevent yourself from unintentionally sending HTML mail. For example, in Outlook Express 6 (Win), under "Tools","Options","Send", you need to uncheck the box for "Reply to messages using the format in which they were sent", AND you should also set "Mail Sending Format" to "plain text". See illustration.
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Richard Harris
June 10, 2008
02:07:52 PM
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WINWORD.EXE |
| I am also experiencing some problems with WINWORD.EXE and would very much appreciate some advice: 1. Often when I close Word, I get this error message: Runtime Error!
Programme: c:\program files\microsoft office\office 10\WINWORD.EXE
Abnormal program termination 2. If I deselect Word as my email editor in Microsoft Outlook, only text appears in my signature (I also use a logo). I can only get the logo to appear if Word is selected. Any views on these things? Thanks Richard Harris
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Caroline Edwards
June 29, 2009
07:00:24 AM
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Could WINWORD.EXE be a virus if I'm not running any applications? |
| I picked up a virus last week which disabled my internet (I have full AVG but it got through anyway). I tried system restore, installation of Safari and Firefox as alternatives but nothing worked. However, a few days later it suddenly started working again but the PC is now running incredbly slowly. I'm working through the list of Processes to see if I can find the virus, and the big memory users are:- WINWORD.EXE
iexplore.exe
avgwdsvc.exe
explorer.exe
svchost.exe (LOCAL SERVICE x 2, NETWORK SERVICE x 2, SYSTEM x 3)
avgrsx.exe
System If anyone can shed any light on this I'd be REALLY grateful! Many thanks Caroline
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George Moore
Administrator
June 29, 2009
09:36:35 AM
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Hi Caroline:
The process name WINWORD.EXE most likely belongs to Microsoft Word but a malicious program could also use the name WINWORD.EXE to mask a virus. In addition there are many ways to infect a computer without ever showing any traces on the systems process list.
The best way to have your system evaluated is to stop by the help desk located in the main library. You could open a support ticket with the help desk online but they will most likely need access to your machine to properly evaluate your problems.
Contact the Help Desk at the following link: http://lts.brandeis.edu/techhelp/helpdesk/requesthelp.html Thanks,
George Moore
Information Security
security@brandeis.edu
[ Edited by a moderator on 2009-06-29]
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