Question Microsoft, Windows 10, and Excel....

[Scarpozzi]

Microsoft's stability sucks for me right now. Crashes constantly since my system was upgraded to Windows 10. I can see why a lot of people are jumping ship...

I'm tempted to go rogue and start running 7 again in a VM under the radar offline just so I can get work done.

 

[quikah]

OK.

I haven't had any major issues for the last 3 years on any of my ~8 systems. Might want to check your hardware.

 

[Scarpozzi]

OK.

I haven't had any major issues for the last 3 years on any of my ~8 systems. Might want to check your hardware.

I appreciate your opinion.

I just got upgraded over the wire from Windows 7 and never saw Excel or Outlook crash until now. It's OS/software. Just bothers me that I wasn't on Windows 10 previously...the upgrade process is what's to blame.

 

[mpo]

Excel has been stable for me over 3 systems with Windows 10. Both Office 2013 and 2016. Outlook is Outlook.

Make sure all the updates are installed for Office and/or Windows. Reboot a time or two.

For any spreadsheet that has crashed, use the Open -> Browse -> Open and Repair option next time you open it.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Excel has been stable for me over 3 systems with Windows 10. Both Office 2013 and 2016. Outlook is Outlook.

Make sure all the updates are installed for Office and/or Windows. Reboot a time or two.

For any spreadsheet that has crashed, use the Open -> Browse -> Open and Repair option next time you open it.

What's annoying is that I've had multiple spreadsheets crash....most-recently, they are ones I'm writing. Simple tables 5X4 tables with nothing more complicated than SUM functions and a few line graphs.

I know Windows 10 isn't directly to blame, but I'm upset because the troubleshooting tools aren't detecting anything wrong...but it's just unstable. I'm supposed to be getting a new system before too long. I'll stick it out.

 

[Exterous]

I appreciate your opinion.

I just got upgraded over the wire from Windows 7 and never saw Excel or Outlook crash until now. It's OS/software. Just bothers me that I wasn't on Windows 10 previously...the upgrade process is what's to blame.

Having been involved in the upgrade planning and execution of thousands and thousands of Win 7 machines through automated MS processes - the process works really well if done right. It sounds like this is a company computer? MS gives companies enough tools they should be able to bake in whatever pre-checks they want to the SCCM task sequence and achieve a high (75-85%) successful (no issue) automated upgrade rate*. I've not heard of any widespread Excel stability issues so I suspect this was either a unique situation or your IT staff doesn't know what it's doing. I'd ask them for a straight rebuild at this point.

*I've also seen organizations not want to put in the effort to do this well and just throw a lot of $$$ at replacing massive swaths of computers - typically health systems

 

[mxnerd]

Check Windows Event Viewer to see if anything suspicious.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Exterous, I'm being nice to my IT Dept by not calling them out.....but yeah, the 2-3 people responsible are basically idiots that aren't formally trained. I may uninstall Excel/Outlook and put a different version on my system.

 

[RLGL]

Exterous, I'm being nice to my IT Dept by not calling them out.....but yeah, the 2-3 people responsible are basically idiots that aren't formally trained. I may uninstall Excel/Outlook and put a different version on my system.

What happens if you run a repair on Office?
Anyone run Memtest?
And these to check the system:
sfc /scannow
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

 

[VirtualLarry]

My main Ryzen R5 3600 rig, with 4x8GB DDR4-3600, 1800FCK, Asus B450-F ROG STRIX mobo, XFX RX 5700 reference blower as primary, MSI GXT 1660 ti Gaming X as secondary, mining in the background on all three. Temps are mostly fine; CPU is on 240mm AIO WC.

 

[Exterous]

Exterous, I'm being nice to my IT Dept by not calling them out.....but yeah, the 2-3 people responsible are basically idiots that aren't formally trained. I may uninstall Excel/Outlook and put a different version on my system.

It certainly depends on the company culture but I'm a fan of - politely - reporting issues. If no one complains then nothing will change. Doesn't mean complaining will fix it but it at least gives the opportunity to build a (potentially long running) case for training\resources\replacements\etc

 

[PowerEngineer]

What version of Excel are/were you running? Did you update Excel to a newer version at the same time?