Fred Warlick
December 11th 03, 09:55 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>Word 2002 takes 20 sec to load and quite awhile to
>close. It is part of Microsoft Works Suite. Other
>programs load very fast. I have Microsoft Office 97
>Professional and use Excel every day. Excel loads
>quickly. I have 512 MB SDRAM, a 1 GHz AMD Duron Morgan
>CPU, a 10GB 7200 rpm HD. I have unistalled Microsoft
>Works Suite as well as the Office 97 a number of times.
>Cleaned the registry and defragmented HD after
>uninstalls. Reload --- Word 2002 still extremly slow.
>Techs say that I must reformat the HD. Would a repair
of
>WinXP do just as well? I do not want to format unless
it
>is the last option. Please offer suggestions. Any idea
>about what is happening? Note: The same Works Suite
was
>loaded on other systems with WinXP and it works fine.
>.
>This problem was found to have been caused by too many
normal.dot templates. Once deleted, program opens and
closes quickly.
>Word 2002 takes 20 sec to load and quite awhile to
>close. It is part of Microsoft Works Suite. Other
>programs load very fast. I have Microsoft Office 97
>Professional and use Excel every day. Excel loads
>quickly. I have 512 MB SDRAM, a 1 GHz AMD Duron Morgan
>CPU, a 10GB 7200 rpm HD. I have unistalled Microsoft
>Works Suite as well as the Office 97 a number of times.
>Cleaned the registry and defragmented HD after
>uninstalls. Reload --- Word 2002 still extremly slow.
>Techs say that I must reformat the HD. Would a repair
of
>WinXP do just as well? I do not want to format unless
it
>is the last option. Please offer suggestions. Any idea
>about what is happening? Note: The same Works Suite
was
>loaded on other systems with WinXP and it works fine.
>.
>This problem was found to have been caused by too many
normal.dot templates. Once deleted, program opens and
closes quickly.