Re: XP takes a long time switching directory's
From: Andre Da Costa (andred25_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/13/04
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:27:30 -0700
In options of Norton Antivirus, uncheck the scan Microsoft Office files,
that is whats causing the lag time to open and save files in Office
applications.
Andre
"Little E" <Little E@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My mother has a problem with her Windows XP, when using Windows Explorer
> and
> I click on the plus sign to expand My Computer, it takes about 3-5 mins.
> to
> open. It does the same when I want to save a file to disk (when in any
> program; Word, Excel, and so on)
>
> I've tried using Norton Antivirus to see if she has a virus, but it
> doesn't
> find anything (and yes it is updated). I've tried AdAware, Spy Sweeper and
> other ad ware type softwares, but nothing fixes the problem.
>
> I've tried alt-ctrl-del to see what else is running in the background, but
> that doesn't tell me anything.
>
> As for memory, she has 224 MB of RAM (more then enough to run Windows XP
> Home Edition) 1.2 GHz Intel Celeron processor.
>
> Anybody got any ideas on what's the problem and how to fix it?
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