Try Perfect Disk or Diskeeper to prefetch files opened most often; XP itself
should do this anyway, but PD or DK10.00 would do this better - they say.
Might be also that if you open a word or Excel file rather than the programs
themselves, Office requests a virus scan for the file to be opened - check
you Word etc Security settings.
Michael
"Babaroga" <dane.bubalo@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:6D0ECED9-FECF-48B1-9A24-2A8AE767D81B@microsoft.com...
> Dear all, is there an option within Windows where users can speed up the
> response of the programs, and therefore avoid the delay before Word &
> Excel
> (either a program or a document) open? Please help me have my Word &
> Excel
> open instantly. My Power Point opens instantly, but Word and Excel take
> around ten seconds to open. I have Toshiba A15-S127 with 756 MB of RAM.
> The
> machine uses Intel Celeron 2.0 GHz. I have recently deleted my hard disk
> and
> installed Windows XP 2002 Home Edition - Service Pack # 1 again, in order
> to
> have Word and Excel open instantly, and Microsoft Office Professional just
> after this; Word and Excel started responding excellent - instantly, until
> I
> installed McAfee and Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta. After this Word and
> Excel
> started responding significantly slower, but Power Point did not slow
> down -
> continued ti respond instantly.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Babaroga
>
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> Please share your knowledge.