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Jerry
I'm repeating this post because I seem to get at most one response per post. The suggestion from &:-jesse below did not help. I've tried everything in
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm
to no avail. Outlook is not logging any activity.
Problem:
It takes about 60 seconds to open Word 2002 and load a small .txt or ..doc file on my W98 system. This problem has persisted for several months, and now I'm finally disgusted enough to try to resolve the matter. I just can't believe that Word is so slow. I've got 512 MB RAM and a 500 MHz P-II processor and Gigs of free disk space. If I delete normal.doc before I enter Word, the application comes up and loads the document in about 5 seconds. But then when I exit Word it regenerates a new normal.doc albatross and spends 60 seconds closing out. Then it takes another 60 seconds the next time I reload Word. sfc.exe flagged user.exe as corrupt, but that seems to be baloney. When I restored my original (smaller) user.exe file from my installation .cab file I couldn't even boot into Windows 98 and I had to restore the suspect (2x larger) user.exe file to get back to a workable but slow-as-molasses system. Can anyone help me?? Is it possible to get rid of the rotten normal.dot file so the application will work faster??
I think I have simplified normal.dot as much as I possibly can
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm
to no avail. Outlook is not logging any activity.
Problem:
It takes about 60 seconds to open Word 2002 and load a small .txt or ..doc file on my W98 system. This problem has persisted for several months, and now I'm finally disgusted enough to try to resolve the matter. I just can't believe that Word is so slow. I've got 512 MB RAM and a 500 MHz P-II processor and Gigs of free disk space. If I delete normal.doc before I enter Word, the application comes up and loads the document in about 5 seconds. But then when I exit Word it regenerates a new normal.doc albatross and spends 60 seconds closing out. Then it takes another 60 seconds the next time I reload Word. sfc.exe flagged user.exe as corrupt, but that seems to be baloney. When I restored my original (smaller) user.exe file from my installation .cab file I couldn't even boot into Windows 98 and I had to restore the suspect (2x larger) user.exe file to get back to a workable but slow-as-molasses system. Can anyone help me?? Is it possible to get rid of the rotten normal.dot file so the application will work faster??
I think I have simplified normal.dot as much as I possibly can