All, thanks for educating the uneducated. I am sometimes curt with my
terminology, not remembering that what I see is something I should describe
better.

Problem is with Outlook (not express) and windows explorer, not internet
explorer. Here are the two scenarios:

A
Open Xl, or open Word. Then go to Open dialogue, find file, open. File
opens instantly.

B
Double click attachment in Outlook, or Windows Explorer, and whether or not
Excel or Word are running (meaning it has nothing to do with startup time of
either), a file will take about 3-5 minutes to load into the program.

In other words, an 'external' opening of an xls or doc file will take
horribly long, whereas opening from within either program takes no time, as
it should.

No virus software installed, so that cannot be it. And I have not recently
changed anything in Windows firewall settings (it is on), so that would not
be the trigger event.

Any ideas to try are welcome and appreciated.
--
Boris


"PD43" wrote:

> BorisS <BorisS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I have recently started having issues where opening a file from a program
> >(Outlook, explorer) takes literally about 5 minutes to complete. If I go
> >from within the operating program (XL, Word), it is instantaneous. But from
> >outside, it takes forever.
>
> I think you are confused in your use of terminology... all of those
> programs are "inside the operating system", such operating system
> being Windows XP (presumably).
>
> What are you having problems opening?
>