RE: Really slow after upgrade to XP Pro

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It seems that I now have my Antivirus issues worked out, thank you
Rosebeauty! Fixing that seems to also have taken care of my Word 2003
problem. I'm not quite sure how, but I won't question a good thing. I will
experiment a little further to ensure that all is well. Thank you all so
much for your help - it is much appreciated!


"Monro_Nine" wrote:

> I recently upgraded a computer from Win 98 to Win XP Pro. The system is a
> Pentium 3, 736 MHz with 384 MB RAM. Some software is fine (Excel 2003,
> Outlook 2003, Internet Explorer) and some is incredibly slow to load (Word
> 2003). I also am having trouble getting Norton Antivirus 2005 to load. I
> can't seem to uninstall it to run it again and possibly fix any corrupt files
> that may be causing the problem. I have gone into system and selected run to
> optimum performance for software. I have defragged it, run Adaware and
> Spybot. It seems that there is enough RAM to handle most of the applications
> - any suggestions as to why I am having problems with select programs? It
> just seems to hang forever, then finally comes up about half the time. It
> also seems that the shortcuts aren't working properly for the problem
> software, even though I have redone them to ensure a proper link. I
> apologize if I have left out any important info and I'll be happy to provide
> it should it help you brainstorm my issues.
.

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