Weidly slow office programs

[bearspa]

I seem to have a weird problem with Word and Excel (2003). if I click on
either shortcut, the program opens reasonably quickly, and then it also opens
any file quickly (whether it is from the recent files list or by finding it
through "File Open".

However, if I doubleclick the Word or Excel file directly (say in Explorer),
it takes forever to open Word/Excel,and then loading the file takes quite
long too. Same problem with rtf files created with Wordpad. Also, same slow
reaction if I rightmouse the file and either "Open" or "Open With".

This is a problem that only started overthe last couple of days, and I don't
think I've installed anything new.

I am totally confused.

Any suggestions will be gratefully accepted. I have also posted this in the
Word and Office forums. I hope that is acceptable.

 

[db]

you might try cycling the
indexing service off and
also see if disabling your
antivirals improves the
performance of the explorer.

you can also test the explorer
and office files via safemode.

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[bearspa]

db:

I'm not quite sure what indexing service you were referring to--is that the
one in the new MS Search (which I disabled this morning--I much prefer
"Search Everything"), but, I was able to get a solution from my post on the
Excel forum. In case anyone is interested, here is the solution (the
unregistering/reregistering did the job for me):

 

[db]

well, I was actually referring to
the indexing service via admin
tools>services.

but if the other solution worked,
then I may have been a better
one.

thanks for posting your solution
as it is helpful to others.


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- Database Developer
- Accountancy
- Veteran of the Armed Forces
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