Problem with Excel crashing

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NiceCupOfTea

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25,298 posts

252 months

Wednesday 30th September 2015
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Hope somebody can help me, this is driving me nuts.

Been using an old copy of Excel 2003 for years on XP / Win 7 32bit without a problem - it does the job fine.

Recently upgraded to a new (to me) laptop.

Now I have a problem in that whenever I copy a cell or small group of cells it crashes completely and I have to restart. It sometimes works on a clean boot with nothing else loaded, so I bought some more memory (8GB!) and it is still doing it.

Spec is - Core i3, 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD with plenty free, Win 7 64bit (could this be the problem?)

I'm using less than 3GB of physical memory, lots of space free on the SSD, only built the laptop a month or two ago so not full of temp files and junk, proper HP drivers installed.

All my googling has come down to memory issues - it didn't work with the original 3GB, and the same problem with new 8GB Crucial memory, so I'm at a loss.

Could it be a 64bit Win7 running issue?

NiceCupOfTea

Original Poster:

25,298 posts

252 months

Sunday 4th October 2015
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Thanks chaps - I had already found the bluetooth threads and disabled the driver with no difference. I've not done it recently but I tried the event log thing and it came back with nothing of use.

Really odd, maybe I've been lucky but I've never had huge problems with a fresh installation of Windows. I am a bit suspicious of some of the drivers though as I had so much trouble with HP's website.