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Thread ID: 75463 2006-12-30 03:08:00 Office 2003 - long delays in opening folders dvlusty (7252) Press F1
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510970 2006-12-30 03:08:00 In all Office Programs (Excel, Outllook, Publisher, Word) when using "Save as" it takes aprrox 18 secs to change to another directory. Sometimes I get the message that the program is not responding and then it will finally change. It must be connected with Windows Explorer because I understand that Office uses this. However the only time I have a problem is in an Office program. I have reinstalled, I have used Detect and repair - all to no avail. dvlusty (7252)
510971 2006-12-30 05:15:00 Strange question, but are you having any problems with using or sending a print job to the printer? Jen (38)
510972 2006-12-30 05:35:00 Have you installed Office 2003 Service Pack 2 and other latest updates? CYaBro (73)
510973 2006-12-31 00:42:00 Thanks Jen for your reply - the answer is in the negative. No other problems at all except this one. dvlusty (7252)
510974 2006-12-31 00:48:00 Thanks CYaBro
I did try to install updates without much success - I will try again and report back. This problem was not there originally i.e. when I got my computer new in May. Stupidly I did not note when it started - should have been more observant!

By the way not sure how I have "Junior Member" under my name but am far from that in age and experience. Started desktop computing with the original Apple II in 1982!!
dvlusty (7252)
510975 2006-12-31 01:02:00 By the way not sure how I have "Junior Member" under my name but am far from that in age and experience. Started desktop computing with the original Apple II in 1982!!

A few of the "oldies" rather like being described as Juniors :p but you can change it to whatever you wish in your User CP Profile options, Custom User Title.
FoxyMX (5)
510976 2007-01-01 23:44:00 Thanks FoxyMX - will attend to that!

Have just done another testing:
Turned off McAfee FIrewall
Turned off McAfee Virus detector
Disabled GoBack
All Office updates seem to be up-to-date
Done another Office Detect & Repair
Inspected all settings in the above programs
Seem to have reduced the time to around 10 secs but no better
The delay is still ONLY in Office and in nothing else - tested almost every program on my computer
dvlusty (7252)
510977 2007-01-02 07:52:00 Are you on a network? I have seen such delays if a networked drive is not available. It waits for the drive to respond before timing out. linw (53)
510978 2007-01-02 08:32:00 Hey dvlusty, when was the last time that you defragment your computer's hard disk drive?

Cheers :)
Renmoo (66)
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