Re: MS Office 97 Word/Excel Hard To Come Up

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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:07:18 GMT, "W. Watson"
<wolf_tracks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>When I try to load a Word doc, it takes a fairly long before I see anything
>appear. When it does, it's a fragmented not fully loaded window. When it
>finally gets omething useful displayed, it's very sluggish. Not too many
>days ago, all was working fine. Last night I did a security update. I have
>no idea if that impacted it. I have to kill the window to get going. It's
>the same problem whether I click on a file or start Word and then try to
>open a doc. In the latter case, I really don't get to the point where I can
>open a file. Everything else seems OK. Well, I just tried Excel, and it's
>slow coming up. In fact, it's doing the same thing. Something is hosed.

This is the interesting bit IMO

"Last night I did a security update. I have no idea if that impacted
it."

Betcha it did.

Exactly what was this security update - Windows or something else?
What AV are you running? See if you can undo the security update via
system restore / backups that you have (obviously) or if its a windows
security update you should be able to remove it via add/remove
programs.

I had the same with Office 2003 when I installed it, it was my AV
Scanner causing the huge slowdown.

Jonah
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