Help! Slow Word & PP Slow: New Comp

[Guest]

I recently purchased a new Dell Inspiron 1405 with 1 gig of ram and a 1.73Ghz
processor. It is my first computer with Windows Vista. It runs perfectly fine
most of the time, but the main reason we purchased it was for my fiancée to
do her translation work.

Unfortunately Microsoft Word and Powerpoint both run extremely slow! They
load fine, and work alright for a little bit, but after a few minutes they
both begin to have horrible lag so that it is nearly imposable to type and
have the words appear in real time. This could happen in other programs, but
we do not use anything else besides the internet enough to notice.

I have worked with the Dell technical help and they have been unable to
resolve the problem, spending most of their time deleting unnecessary
programs to help speed up the computer, but it has not made a difference in
this problem.

I have also re-installed Microsoft Office, downloaded all of Dell's and
Vista's patches etc... to no avial.

Anyone have any ideas? I've been assured many times that my specifications
should be sufficient to run Word, but i am beginning to doubt it. I don't
really know much about Vista or how much memory it requires.

 

[Guest]

Which version Vista?
At least another 1Gb Ram would help!
Check out Readyboost (using a flash drive), this may help!!!
Is your Graphic Card Ram integrated, does it have it's own Ram memory?

 

[Steve Easton]

Try turning off automatic spell checking as you type.

 

[ray]

I recently purchased a new Dell Inspiron 1405 with 1 gig of ram and a 1.73Ghz
processor. It is my first computer with Windows Vista. It runs perfectly fine
most of the time, but the main reason we purchased it was for my fiancée to
do her translation work.

Unfortunately Microsoft Word and Powerpoint both run extremely slow! They
load fine, and work alright for a little bit, but after a few minutes they
both begin to have horrible lag so that it is nearly imposable to type and
have the words appear in real time. This could happen in other programs, but
we do not use anything else besides the internet enough to notice.

I have worked with the Dell technical help and they have been unable to
resolve the problem, spending most of their time deleting unnecessary
programs to help speed up the computer, but it has not made a difference in
this problem.

I have also re-installed Microsoft Office, downloaded all of Dell's and
Vista's patches etc... to no avial.

Anyone have any ideas? I've been assured many times that my specifications
should be sufficient to run Word, but i am beginning to doubt it. I don't
really know much about Vista or how much memory it requires.

You might try OpenOffice.org - won't cost you a dime to find out if it
works any better.

 

[Guest]

pdfernan,

if none of the suggestions below work, I've noticed some lag myself as well
when I first started using Vista...

then I realized that it was defragmenting my HDs and file indexing at the
same time. starting an app could take me up to 20 seconds when those were
active, but since I've found out, and specially when none of those are
running, all if fine.

That's the part I know about... perhaps Office also have some kind of
indexing (I know it had one in XP) but since I don't own the vista version, I
can't offer any suggestions on that part.

Good luck

Regards