If I had a dollar for every time I've seen "Not Responding" since I got a
Vista system, I could probably buy out Bill Gates. I've gotten it from
every last piece of software I own, including Vista's own features. If
someone has a solution, I sure hope they post it.

Buddha

"Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B30B2366-508E-4203-8E89-CDBA9D6A7CC1@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have a new Dell Latitude 830 laptop (4gb RAM, 120Gb HD) preinstalled
> with
> Vista Ultimate. I got the laptop and basically immediately starting
> installing SW on it (Office 2007, Acrobat 8, others) before I really used
> it
> a lot, so I'm not sure if this problem was out of the box or not.
> But basically any program I click on (IE, Office 2007, etc) launches, but
> goes into "Not Responding" mode for 20-30 seconds, then goes back to
> running
> normally. Even if I have Word open and running, and open a new document,
> it
> does the "not responding" think there as well. Everything seems to work,
> but
> it is very annoying. Anyone seen this, and have any advice for me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
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