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Excel crashes on exit – OLEAUT32.DLL problem December 9, 2010

Posted by jbanju in Tips Ms Office.
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When trying to exit from Excel (2003 or 2007) by pressing Excel’s X button program crashes (stop working). Meantime if firstly close the opened file and after that close the Excel itself it closes by normal way.
The following information for the error appear:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: EXCEL.EXE
Application Version: 11.0.8231.0
Application Timestamp: 48934d57
Fault Module Name: OLEAUT32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a74f
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00004580
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
LCID: 1033
Brand: Office11Crash
skulcid: 1033

Try disabling your Excel add-ins and test. If this doesn’t work, try changing
the value of LoadBehavior from 3 to 0 under this registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins