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by seadogs

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I have been seeing an increasing # of errors from my w2k machine where the message is: opware32.exe has generated errors and is being shut down. An error log is being generated. This occurs with several different programs such as mmc.exe, quark.exe, word.exe and so on. I haven't seen anything in the event log around the time of the errors. I ran a full diagnostics on the machine and everything checked out. I ran checkdisk and defraged the hard drive. I swapped out the RAM. I tried to findthe opware32.exe program and always get 0 files found. Any ideas on how to fix this issue? The errors occur often when in files and then corrupt them. Thanks!

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by seadogs

We have current norton on the system and it is scanned regularly as clean. Thanks though.

by newellx3

OPWARE32.exe (OmniPage), maybe there's a conflict w/ Quark and OmniPage running at the sametime. Have you tried reinstalling Omnipage?

by newellx3

OPWARE32.exe (OmniPage), maybe there's a conflict w/ Quark and OmniPage running at the sametime. Have you tried reinstalling Omnipage?

Recommendation :
Unfortunately there are many documented conflicts between these background programs and other applications such as applications using your modem (!!), or other applications which need to use the scanner. Our recommendation, therefore, is that, unless you do a lot of conversion-to-text scanning (OCR) and you are not experiencing general PCproblems or problems with other programs, then you should disable this feature and get used to manually opening OmniPage to scan text. You can disable the feature as follows :
(1) Open OmniPage.
(2) Choose the "Tools \ Options" menu option.
(3) Choose the "OCR Aware" tab.
(4) Remove the check mark against the "Enable OCR Aware" option.

by seadogs

I couldn't find an installation of omnipage on the system, although I think it had been on there at one time. I used a program similar to msconfig for w2k to disable opware32.exe at startup (was in the startup list) and so far, it has run well. Thanks!

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