Can't say if it will last as long as a reboot before it happens again. It seams there is some deep problem with resource management in SP1. All over the web similar threads are appearing since SP1 was published. You guys are not alone. I often stay logged in and lock the machine.
As others point out this appears to amplify the occurrences. Also around about the time it starts to happen Word 07 will cease to do in-line spell checks and will begin to act somewhat flaky.
This may or may not be related. Explain this to me, why can't Microsoft learn. They were too early and consequently a nightmmare. I got stuck with this Vista because. I has this same problem and went to the MS office 12 folder and right clicked on Excel. After doing that I launched fine.
After I launched it under compat mode, I removed the setting and it still worked I'm experiencing this same problem - running Vista SP1 with Office and the latest critical updates installed. In fact, I just went through the fun of closing the multiple applications I had running and rebooting.
Lose about 15 minutes everytime I have to do that. This represents one of the reasons why my IT shop has not deployed Vista to any of our users. I was hoping Vista SP1 was going to demonstrate better reliability and compatibility - and it has to some degree, but there is no way I'm deploying Vista to anyone with a problem like this.
TechGuy We're working on it, it's going through full testing right now and should be available in a few weeks if there are no issues found. In the meantime: You don't need to reboot, just log off and log back on. It's a per-user issue. That will clear it up if it's the same issue.
It hits different people in different time frames. I have the same problem with Excel after Vista SP1 install. I was unsure whether the problem started after SP1 installation or ReadyBoost installation. When i removed ReadyBoost device after getting the error for Excel, it started working. It's been a month since you posted "we're working on it". Any idea when this problem will be solved or when a patch will be released?
We are finishing up testing and provided all goes well, should have it available in the next week or so. We had hoped to have this fix available earlier this month but had a few more t's to cross and i's to dot in the final testing. Nothing bad no problems with the fix , just needed some additional runtime on some of the testing that we require prior to a broad public release.
Sorry it's taking a while but it's better to make sure we don't introduce other regressions when we do a fix like this. Ok Cool. This is at least better news. Will this patch go out with new updates on the Microsoft Update site or will you post a direct download link to this thread in the forum? In case this helps anyone out there or the folks at Microsoft. My problem was fixed in regards to the "Not a Valid Win32 Application Error" and in my case I didn't have to wait for a MS Patch - I don't know if this applies to everyone else who is experiencing this problem but let me post my scenario and fix.
After all these boring details I would suggest that if you are having trouble with the "Not a Valid Win32 Application Error" message, you check with your network card vendor for driver updates. By the way, I did try every other suggestion in this thread and my problem persisted after every attempt.
OK, to make this a bit more clear. In my case, "any" executable or installer was being reported as "Not a Valid Win32 Application Error". It may save some a few headaches out there "IF" the scenario applies to their situation.
It's clear that you were getting this error message caused by a completely different reason. The symptoms I outlined earlier are that the issue we found only affects a very specific set of apps and functionality. I can't tell what was causing this error for you without additional debugging and troubleshooting, but I can tell that it's not the same issue as the fix we have forthcoming. A guy goes to a car repair shop and says "there is a loud sqeeking noise coming from under my hood".
The repair shop diagnoses the problem and replaces the fan belt, and that fixes it. A few weeks later a friend of his says he has a loud squeaking noise as well, and the first guy says it's the fan belt, so the 2nd guy replaces the fan belt. Not surprisingly, that didn't fix it because although the symptom "not a valid Win32 application" was the same, the root casue was the bearings in the oil pump had failed and were about to seize.
I just want to show that just because the error message is the same, the root cause can be very different. We konw that because we know exactly what is causing this to happen and have the fix nearly ready for release. So something else was causing this error. This error can be caused by either loading a file that isn't an application as an app e.
Thanks for your reply and the excellent analogy. I'm sorry if I caused any confusion. In my case it was definetly a wireless card driver issue that possibly wasn't handling the tcp packets correctly and once the file was downloaded to my machine it was somehow corrupted.
I am pleased to announce that the fix for the specific "Excel is not a valid Win32 Application Error" is now available for download. More info and the download links are available here:.
This will be published on Windows Update as a recommended update for Vista users in July, but in the meantime you can download directly from the Microsoft. Thanks for your patience! This should resolve this issue for those of you hitting it. Good work. Thanks for sticking with this. Thanks so much John for the direct link!
I just had the problem occurring today only for the first time and went searching for a solution. Happy to have found one. I tried to check if my hard drive had any errors and it wouldn't check. This was the error message I received:. I keep getting the same error message "not a win32 app" , as well as my disk defragement not starting. Did this ever get fixed? I'm still seeing the problem here vista ultimate sp1, 64 bit , and as far as I know I'm fully up to date on patches.
I am also getting this error message. I tried downloading the patch but the response was that 'it didn't apply to my computer'. That must mean that the update is already there. When trying to upload Adobe Photoshop Starter 3. It happens only with Excel. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Well, before I'm going to try such a rather desperate step, I would like to add my little cents to the problem. I wanted to install the latest version of TrueCrypt and I'm receiving this error.
Before that, the error popped up with sevral other installations, but so far I found a workaround, e. None of the hints given here have worked so far. The first posting with "is not a valida Win32 application" I have seen in the Net ws from the year So maybe deinstalling software or going back to "from scratch" might work. Thanks, BorealisPhoenix. Update: the problem in my case was related to the latest TrueCrypt version. I went back to version 4. Sorry for blaming Microsoft.
My aunt is having this problem. She is only getting the error when she tries to open an excel document in her "documents" folder. Can you tell me how to fix the file assocation. I am not sure where to look to do this. I am still learning about the whys and wherefores of this pesky error message so I can code my XML manifest resourcees correctly and make my applications cross-windows-version the way I want them to be.
Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. No other users logged on and system is fully patched on Windows Update etc Any ideas?
Tuesday, April 1, PM. Monday, April 21, AM. In his post, we will walk you through an easy and quick guide. And file can be changed or renamed as the. If you want to create a. Otherwise, the file would not be executable and you may encounter the error not a valid Win32 application. For a file to become an executable file, it needs to either be compiled or converted through a software program designed to convert the file. To sum up, this post has introduced 3 ways to fix the error that.
If you come across the same error, try these solutions. If you have any better solution to fix it, you can share it in the comment zone. Read More. Open file name And there you have it! Posted: 2 days ago level 1. What I usually do is record macro in excel doing something similar and then transform resulting vba code into python win32 comands.
It's usually same commands and syntax. You can lookup special constant values at vba runtime and hardcode into your python script. Application' excel can be visible or not excel. When I right click and try to start an Excel file with " open -with" , I can't get Excel to show up in the default programs list. Posted: 1 week ago Double-click the file. Locate the EXE file icon and double-click it. If you have the right … Look for another program. If none of the above programs will open your EXE file , check the file … Get help from a developer.
The easiest way to open a EXE file , or any kind of file , is to use … See full list on file magic. Double-click the file. If you have the right … 2. Look for another program. Check the file type. If none of the above programs will open your EXE file, check the file … 4. Get help from a developer.
Find a universal file viewer. The easiest way to open a EXE file, or any kind of file, is to use …. I tried to even download excel viewer. THe problem seems to be only with xls versions. I am able to open directly all xlsx version file s. Posted: 4 days ago User was recently upgraded to office and is now unable to open. I am unable to set the file association either, even if I drill down the office installation it will not allow the file to open. We had a registry fix for Office that fixed this issue, it ….
In the pop-up window, you can go to the location or directory that contains the corrupted Excel file. Select the corrupted workbook. Click the drop-down icon next to the Open button and choose the Open and Repair option. Click Repair to repair the spreadsheet. How to read exel file with win32com This code will help you to read, write and save exiting excel. Dispatch 'Excel. The win32 code is pretty smart and will close down excel once the program is done running.
Here is a very short example of opening up Excel: Once you run this from the command line, you should see Excel open up. There are a few key concepts to go through before we actually make this a more useful application. The first step is to import the win32 client. One way around this is to start excel and open or Then save the file as a excel worksheet. Close excel and then you can open the new. Python 2.
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