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Lady:
I think you misunderstood. I used to get these closing down Errors in the Windows System Logfiles every time I had closed down the pc and nothing out of the ordinary happened, so even when no Blue Screen happened. I thought the messages were now gone, and they were, but only for one day, and now I get them again for every time I closed down the pc in a normal way. The pc is running pretty good now (hurray for your Windows Repair!), no more crashes or freezing or hanging on closing down. The problems remaining are these strange Error messages and the Word plug-in error messages and another thing: my keyboard sometimes gives different symbols than the key displays after typing a while, e.g. I want to type a question mark and I get =. This is gone after a reboot. This happened twice in the last few days.

I tried to uninstall the plug-in dictionaries but I cannot. It said there was no Uninstall file and that was correct, it was missing from the files. So I copied the Uninst.isu file from my backup on one of my external HDs, but it still doesn't work. It says that there's still an application running in Office, but I have closed down Word and it keeps giving this message. And I have great trouble ending this task via the Task Manager. And then this Uninstall file that I copied back in is gone again. ?? Did this three times. I guess this means these dictionary files are really corrupted. I have a full backup on my external HDs. How do I go about deleting and re-installing them? The weird thing is that the dictionaries themselves DO work perfectly, in Word and in general when I'm writing something. You can see examples of them in the PNG file that I attached earlier, on the taskbar, the blue squares N-E and E-N.

A small thing: I ticked off the notification of replies here, but didn't get any so far. :S

Lady

Lady:
After many hours I managed to get a whole lot fixed about the dictionaries. Aren't I the greatest?! :-D  What finally did the trick was to remove those seemingly copied top 10 templates from the Word Startup folder and re-install the dictionaries. The dictionaries all function and the error messages in Word are gone (I'm soooo proud!) but I end up with 2 problems I can't solve. One is that the dictionary French-Dutch (F-N) doesn't open in Word, see attachment. I will translate the message: "The DDE link of the Van Dale Dictionary French-Dutch cannot be accomplished. In the dictionary the function Replace will not work. Original error: faulty procedure call or faulty argument." I'm sorry, this is jargon, so my translation might be wrong but hopefully you get the gist of it.

The second problem is more difficult. I had a lot of trouble removing the dictionaries German-Dutch and vice versa. I managed to do so but the macros in Word remained. I re-installed them anyway and they open in Start but they don't open in Word. Something goes wrong with their macros. The error message (2nd attachment) reads: "the macro cannot be found or is switched off because of macro security settings". How do I get rid of these macros when I delete them so re-installation can be fresh, so to speak. Do you know this, Shane?

Also, what is different with the German-Dutch and the French-Dutch dictionaries is that upon opening Windows ask for my permission for the program to make changes to my pc as the publisher is unknown. All the other dictionaries function normally in this respect.

The 3rd attachment shows the plug-ins in Word. Top left-hand corner. Nine images of all the dictionaries: Spanish, English, Dutch, German and French.

Phewww. Spent many hours on this now today. My eyes are SQUARED!  :( Hopefully you know about these things too, Shane.

Lady

Shane:
Did you ever run the repair option in the office setup? You can go to add/remove programs and click change, then it will give you a repair option.

Shane

Lady:
No, I didn't (yet) because IMHO this is not part of the setup of Word. I added the dictionaries myself. I have one more ace up my sleeve, going to remove the files that aren't working fully yet with Revo Uninstaller, so every bit is removed and then try re-installing them. But I have no time for it whatsoever right now. Will be back. :-D

Lady:
Oh, I forget, the pc is running really smoothly!!! I'm soooo thrilled. THANK YOU, Shane! You're a blessing!

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