Documents slow to open in windows XP explorer

[alfonso]

I am running XP Home Edition service pack 3 and Microsoft Office 2003

If I open a Word or Excel document in Explorer, it can take up to nearly a
minute to open. However, if I click on the same document within the programs
it opens instantly. If I reboot, things speed up considerably, but then
begin toslow down quite quickly. Other files such as Pdfs and picture files
don't seem to be affected. There is no warning/error log message displayed
in the event viewer when I try to open the document.

I have tried various things - repaired Office 2003, changed the .dot
file,run CCleaner, run the
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/wia.reg. I've done virus checks,
and run adaware. I have at least 31gb space on the 74gb disk. Not sure
where to go from here.

I would be grateful for any suggestions that don't involve a complete
reinstall of the system since my computer acts as a server. The other user
of the server has no problemat all opening his documents.

Many thanks
Alfonso

 

[DL]

As previously posted, you have any mapped drives?

 

[Bob I]

Going from memory here but try changing the "DDE" setting in Options of
the two applications.