Picture Manager suddenly slow

[JimWae±]

Picture Manager (OIS.exe) suddenly slow

Takes over 3 minutes to load even 50 KB jpgs & gifs -- even just to launch
by itself.

I recently ran WinASO registry cleaner, but checked all entries before
repairing.

Already ran an Office repair.

Any other ideas?

XP Pro with SP2

Office 2003

CPU usage not high, memory usage 15 MB - more than Outlook

 

[JimWae±]

For the first 3 minutes or however long it takes to launch, it uses only
HALF the RAM it uses when running.
It also does not shutdown properly.

-- and seems to have altered my mouse pointer this time.

 

[R. Robert Bell, MCSE]

Jim,

The solution is to edit the OIScatalog.cag (just an XML file) located in
C:\Documents and Settings\<yourprofile>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\OIS.

Locate tags that begin with "mru path". Delete any that point to bad or slow
locations.