Files are slow opening

[Guest]

I am running XP home addition here's my process & problem:
I click Start, Programs, WORD, or EXCEL (any of office products), file open,
click drop down window to select a folder, this is where it freezes and will
not respond. If I click a second time I get a message "Not Responding".

I have tried, cleaning up files, I took it to the Geek Shop and they cleaned
up my computer made sure I had no viriuses, when I returned home the first
time I tried it - it worked but after the first time it went back to the same
problem.
Please help if you can.

 

[Guest]

Have you tried running Check Disk utility? I reccomend frunning Disk
defragger first. That smoothes the process of the check disk utility. not to
mention corrects a lot of file open problems.

 

[Guest]

I forgot to mention a few other things. check your memory usage you may have
programs running in the background hogging all of your memory. Also do some
spyware/adware scans and a virus scan to just make sure you dont have a
virus.

 

[d01178]

I am running XP home addition here's my process & problem:
I click Start, Programs, WORD, or EXCEL (any of office products), file open,
click drop down window to select a folder, this is where it freezes and will
not respond. If I click a second time I get a message "Not Responding".

I have tried, cleaning up files, I took it to the Geek Shop and they cleaned
up my computer made sure I had no viriuses, when I returned home the first
time I tried it - it worked but after the first time it went back to the same
problem.
Please help if you can.
sander44

Clean out your temporary files, Internet files and recyclebin. Defragment the drive. Ensure that you have enough memory to support the progrms running.

 

[Guest]

I tried all your suggestions but it still doesn't work correctly. Anything
you can think of?

 

[Guest]

Hi I have struggled with the same problem for a while now and I have just
found a solution that worked for me, when clicking file open, change the
"Files of type" drop down at the bottom to "Word documents (*.doc)" and not
"All word documents"
Rud