Situation: User has Windows 7 Enterprise x64. User has Word 2010. Word opens most documents fine (both .doc and .docx). There are seemingly random documents that will crash Word with the following error:
Faulting application name: WINWORD.EXE, version: 14.0.7160.5000, time stamp: 0x55fc2717
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x85157bd9
Faulting process id: 0x2e6c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d1079e71eacb68
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: b36b0fee-741b-11e5-a505-0026b987f448
What I know: This problem happens with random documents, seemingly received via email attachment. We are on a domain, and have identical computers for our users. A different user in the same area as this user, was able to open said documents without issue.
What I have tried so far
The event log referrences some temp files in the user's appdata location, so I have cleared those out.
Repair install of Office as a whole
Changing default printer
Running word in safe mode, and opening the documents
Anyone have any thoughts?
No resolution. Unable to pin down the problem to any one area. Already spent my maximum 2 hour troubleshooting window. Had to rebuild the machine. Following a rebuild on a new drive, all tested working. User was back up and running in about 90 minutes from that point.
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