Major trouble with Office XP

[novasonicse]

I'm having major problems with Office XP, updated to SP3. When I use any
Office program (Excel, Word, etc.) when I first start my computer, everything
runs fine. The longer I keep my computer on, the slower the programs start to
function. I mostly use Word, but when my computer is on for a while, it takes
forever to save, open, format fonts, format paragraphs, everything. I see my
CPU usage shooting up to 50-100%. I don't understand what's going on. I have
a dual core 2.6GHz processor and 2GB ram and I'm having such horrible
performance issues that I can't resolve. Anyone have any ideas what might be
going on? I've tried reinstalling but it doesn't help.

 

[DL]

Thoroughly scan your PC with an anti virus app, and several malaware apps

 

[novasonicse]

I've scanned my computer many times with updated virus definitions using
Norton AntiVirus. As for malware apps, can you suggest some for me? Although
I doubt this because, I only started experiencing this problem after I
reformatted my hard drive. Even trying multiple times to format my hard
drive, still get the same problem. Maybe it's a hardware issue? I only
experience these problems with Microsoft Office, though.

 

[DL]

Malaware:
Adaware, SpyBot, Windows Defender - all free

You formatted your HD & reinstalled winxp did you also install chipset &
other drivers from manufacturers, or rely on winupdate? - a bad idea.
And if you turn off the Norton integration with Office, does this help -
note, you may have to completely uninstall Norton in order to completely
remove its hooks into office.

 

[Echo S]

Sometimes uninstalling Norton isn't even enough.

Norton Anti-Virus and Office
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00387.htm

Also, doesn't indexing / desktop search slow down Vista? (Asking -- I don't
really know.)

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