Programs open slowly

[Guest]

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

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

It is probably your virus scanner. Check your virus program's settings.

 

[Phillips]

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