Slow opening program

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I have XP Pro with 1.7mHz processor and 256Mb ram and the machine works
fairly quickly. Until recently all the programs were opening fine, but now I
am having a problem with just the Office programs. WORD and EXCEL take an
age to open, once open they work at the usual speed, they were never like
this before, other programs don't seem to be affected.

I use the XP firewall, run an updated AVG, regularly run things like
ScanSpyware and Spybot, both of which find nothing.

Anybody have any idea what could be causing this?


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