Nicolas

How much RAM? Using Norton on system needs mucho RAM.

If you are right clicking you can get Context menu problems:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Nicolas wrote:
> Hi "Uncle Marvo",
>
> Thanks for your answer:
>> I've seen a couple of reasons for this - one is that the printer
>> that is "attached" to that document is not available, on a network,
>> the other is that there is a link to something it can't find. Is it
>> either of those? Does Excel open quickly on its own, without
>> directly opening a file?
>
> I would tend to agree with you one point: The long opening time looks
> like the duration of a network timeout. That said this applies to any
> document from word / excel. So I would tend to exclude behavior
> linked to the document content, but more something related to office
> or environment configuration...
>
> I just did the following test:
>
> Right clicked on Windows file explorer -> New -> Excel document
>
> Then just click on this new empty document: Opening time like around a
> minute, but excel is opened after 2 seconds without any document
> window inside.
>
> And from this intermediate state, if I do file => open => select
> manually
> the document, the document openes in a second. And later, the initial
> document open command tries to complete and warns that a document
> with the same name is already opened...
>
> So what I'm looking for if where I could chase for wrong links or
> netword references in office / Word / Excel setup, or within default
> template documents, etc...
>
> I already tried to perform office diagnostic and repair without any
> success...
>
> Thanks for any help there.
> Unless this is a side effect from other applications setup, or a
> virus, but then I don't know how to proceed.
> (I have a Norton Antivirus corporate edition running on my PC)