All of my programs crash if they are open when I open QuickBooks.  Word, Excel, Tax program, Outlook, Adobe - all crash.  It is a QuickBooks problem, as most of the people on this thread are saying. I have to remember to open QuickBooks before I open anything else. Or if I have something open, I have to remember to save and close it, open QuickBooks, and then re-open the other program. Takes up so much extra time, I've been working 10 to 12 hours a day instead of 8 to 10.  It's been over a year!  As someone else said, it's time to find a fix for this.