Winword Exe Has Stopped Working

When I started getting this error Microsoft Word has stopped working – A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available, on my Office installation, I was a little irritated. I just could not open any Word documents. Well, in case you face the same issue, you can try this.

If winword.exe is located in a subfolder of the user's 'Documents' folder, the security rating is 68% dangerous. The file size is 191,665 bytes. The program is not visible. It is not a Windows system file. If winword.exe is located in the C: Windows System32 folder, the security rating is 42% dangerous. The file size is 1,988,608 bytes.

Microsoft Word 2010 Not Working

  1. Has Microsoft Office Word just stopped working in Windows 10 or Windows 7 occurred before you can save the Word file? Follow the easy fix for Microsoft Word 2013, 2016 has stopped working issue and download EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to see if it can help you recover unsaved Word documents.
  2. 'WINWORDC.EXE has stopped working shows up. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.'
  3. Controlled Folder Access blocking OSprofileCollector. Controlled Folder Access was blocking OSprofileCollector.exe. There is a way to “allow an app through” for trusted apps however, I can’t seem to find any information on OSProfileCollector in the Dell Community or internet to determine if this is malware, spyware or a legitimate program.
  4. Fix Microsoft Word has Stopped Working: Microsoft Office is one of the most important software packages that we all install on our system.It comes with a package of software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. MS word which is used in creating doc files is one of the software that we use to write and store our text files.
  5. Microsoft Excel has stopped working. Microsoft Word has stopped working. Microsoft Outlook has stopped working. Microsoft PowerPoint has stopped working. Hi Friends, Like you, I faced this problem after I upgraded my MS Office 2010 to MS Office 2013 and spent plenty amount of hours trying to fix it. YES IT'S FRUSTRATED!
  6. Has Microsoft Office Word just stopped working in Windows 10 or Windows 7 occurred before you can save the Word file? Follow the easy fix for Microsoft Word 2013, 2016 has stopped working issue and download EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to see if it can help you recover unsaved Word documents.

When you try to open any Word 2016/2013/2010 document, you get may these error dialog boxes and error message:

Microsoft Word has stopped working

In such cases, you can try the following troubleshooting steps.

Microsoft Word Quit Working

Add-ins are a very common cause why you could get such errors. What we need to do is disable the trouble-making add-in.

Working

Run winword.exe /a. This will prevent Word from loading its add-ins. When asked if you want to open Word in Safe Mode, click on Yes.

This will open Word in Safe Mode. Now click on the File tab and select Options.

In the Word Options, select Add-Ins.

Browse the active Add-ins for one’s you think may be causing Word to crash. In my case, it was the Send to Bluetooth add-in which caused Word on my Windows 7 to crash. Click on Go to manage this add-in. Uncheck the trouble-making add-in and click OK.

Close Word.

Problem

Now try to open any Word document. It should work!

If it doesn’t help you can try to reset Office Registry settings to default values.

How To Fix Winword.exe Has Stopped Working

If it still doesn’t help the best option would be to Repair Office. This post on how to repair Office or uninstall individual Office programs will show you how to do it.

See this post if PowerPoint is not responding or if you generally receive a Program not responding message.

TIP: Download this tool to quickly find & fix Windows errors automatically

Related Posts: