Please help! I am a freelance writer and my living depends on my Microsoft Word. Since I installed CCleaner and ran some scans, I can no longer open it! I don't know what to do. I am frantic.
As Hazelnut asked Dogfairy-
Which parts/which scans did you run in CCleaner?
Different parts of CCleaner do very different things.
So to try and work out what may be happening then we need to know exactly which bits people are using.
I have same failure to launch Word & Excel issue with Win 11 and Office 365 after running CCleaner. The wouldn't launch, then they would launch and finally after a number of weeks they just didn't.
Recently I spoke with Microsoft tech and then did a reinstall of Word and Excel which solved it, but then I ran CCleaner and then Word and Excel wouldn't launch again. It seemed to fix itself after a while, but I am sure than CCleaner is cleaning too much.
Take a look at this post:
<a href="<___base_url___>/topic/64110-cant-open-microsoft-programs-after-running-ccleaner/#comment-340399" rel="">https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/64110-cant-open-microsoft-programs-after-running-ccleaner/#comment-340399</a>
(And check in CCleaner under "Performance Optimizer" if the Office applications are also in sleep state. If so, wake them all up again.)
Also, What/which Anti-Virus are you using?
What scans did you run? We need to know.
Did you install CCleaner because you felt your machine was not quite well and perhaps was running slow?
What operating system do you run? (Windows 10, Windows 11?)
Do you not make backups of your writings at the end of the day?