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Every other time that you open a document in Word, the document opens in recovery mode or you receive an error message

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SYMPTOMS

Every other time that you open a document in an instance of Microsoft Word 2002 or of Microsoft Office Word 2003 that is running on a Microsoft Windows 2000 terminal server or on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 terminal server, you may experience one of the following symptoms:

The document opens in recovery mode.
You receive the following error message:
Word has detected a problem with the existing Normal.dot. Would you like to create a new Normal.dot?

Note Terminal Services is a service on servers that are running Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003. It is a thin-client architecture in which all application processing occurs centrally on the server.

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CAUSE

This issue may occur if the DisabledItems subkey and the Startup subkey are written to the following registry key:

Word 2002

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\Install\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Word\Resiliency

Word 2003

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\Install\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Resiliency

Word 2007

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\Install\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Resiliency

To have us fix this problem for you, go to the "Fix it for me" section. If you would rather fix this problem yourself, go to the "Let me fix it myself" section.

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To fix this problem automatically, click the Fix this problem link. Then click Run in the File Download dialog box, and follow the steps in this wizard.

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Note This wizard may be in English only; however, the automatic fix also works for other language versions of Windows.

Note If you are not on the computer that has the problem, you can save the automatic fix to a flash drive or to a CD, and then you can run it on the computer that has the problem.

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Let me fix it myself

Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322756

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/ )

How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

To work around this issue, delete the DisabledItems subkey and the Startup subkey. To do this, follow these steps:

Log on as an administrator to the console of the computer that is a terminal server.
Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.
Locate and then click the following registry subkey, as appropriate for your version of Word.
Word 2002
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\Install\Software\MICROSOFT\Office\10.0\Word\Resiliency
Word 2003
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\Install\Software\MICROSOFT\Office\11.0\Word\Resiliency
Word 2007
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\Install\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Resiliency
With the registry subkey that is specified in step 3 selected, follow these steps:
1. Right-click DisabledItems, and then click Delete.
2. Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the
  DisabledItems
  subkey.
3. Right-click Startup, and then click Delete.
4. Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the
  Startup
  subkey.
Locate and then select the following registry subkey, as appropriate for your version of Word.
Word 2002
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Word\Resiliency
Word 2003
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Resiliency
Word 2007
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Resiliency
With the registry subkey that is specified in step 5 selected, follow these steps:
1. Right-click DisabledItems, and then click Delete.
2. Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the DisabledItems subkey.
3. Right-click Startup, and then click Delete.
4. Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the Startup subkey.
On the File menu, click Exit to exit Registry Editor.

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MORE INFORMATION

The DisabledItems entry stores the documents, the templates, and the add-ins that have been disabled in Word 2002 or in Word 2003. The Startup entry defines the Microsoft Office safe mode state.

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