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regards,
ssg MS-MVP

acs68 wrote:

Hi all,

am having all sorts of problems and am hoping there are some gurus who may
be able to help.

I have an XP Pro Sp2 machine that is terribly slow at opening files - the
machine itself is fast, 3ghz with 512mb ram.

Here's the symptoms:
User normally uses "my computer" and dbl click the file to launch from
folder - this is very slow.
If the user opens word first and browses to file, it all works fine.
Right mouse click on file (on desktop for example)- takes incredibly long to
pop up the menu (I suspect that this is at the root of the problem).

Does nyone know what could be causing this ? I have temporarily taken off
Anti Virus to see if that could have been causing it - but no joy.

cheers,

Adam