Slow in opening MS Words, sometime Active desktop recovery appears

[Francis Chew]

Hi All,
Recently whenever I tried to open any documents in Ms Word, it will
temporary hangs for between a few second to a minute before opening. Active
desktop recovery alway appear when you pressed Ctlr+Alt+Del key or without
pressing it. Sometime it will takes several minutes just to open a documents
but it will eventually open. Have done virus scan + adware scan but problems
still remains.

Please advice,

Thank you.

[PattyL]

If you turn off Active Desktop, does Word open normally?

How to Enable or Disable the Active Desktop
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=190228

If it does, then I'd suggest that you try to repair Internet Explorer.

Description of the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=194177

If this does not help, then this might.

Word is slow to start, print, or load documents
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=280821

If not, I suggest that you try posting your question on a group that
supports MS Word.

PattyL


"Francis Chew" > wrote in message
...
> Hi All,
> Recently whenever I tried to open any documents in Ms Word, it will
> temporary hangs for between a few second to a minute before opening.
> Active
> desktop recovery alway appear when you pressed Ctlr+Alt+Del key or without
> pressing it. Sometime it will takes several minutes just to open a
> documents
> but it will eventually open. Have done virus scan + adware scan but
> problems
> still remains.
>
> Please advice,
>
> Thank you.

[ssb]

I've been experiencing the same problem. Another time it "goes into limbo
land" for awhile (not always) is when I press 'Start'. I'm running IE6, not
5. I believe I have the latest fixes. Could be coincidence, but noticed the
problem after went wireless. DLink tells me there is no association to the
problem........

"PattyL" wrote:

> If you turn off Active Desktop, does Word open normally?
>
> How to Enable or Disable the Active Desktop
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=190228
>
> If it does, then I'd suggest that you try to repair Internet Explorer.
>
> Description of the Internet Explorer Repair Tool
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=194177
>
> If this does not help, then this might.
>
> Word is slow to start, print, or load documents
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=280821
>
> If not, I suggest that you try posting your question on a group that
> supports MS Word.
>
> PattyL
>
>
> "Francis Chew" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hi All,
> > Recently whenever I tried to open any documents in Ms Word, it will
> > temporary hangs for between a few second to a minute before opening.
> > Active
> > desktop recovery alway appear when you pressed Ctlr+Alt+Del key or without
> > pressing it. Sometime it will takes several minutes just to open a
> > documents
> > but it will eventually open. Have done virus scan + adware scan but
> > problems
> > still remains.
> >
> > Please advice,
> >
> > Thank you.
>
>
>

[cquirke (MVP Win9x)]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:11:02 -0800, Francis Chew

>Recently whenever I tried to open any documents in Ms Word, it will
>temporary hangs for between a few second to a minute before opening.

I've seen two causes for that:

1) Journalling in Outlook; stop it journalling Office files

2) Open Office file asociations; this can slow down MS Office's Open

>Active desktop recovery alway appear

Kill Active Desktop for this and other reasons. The white "Active
Desktop has fallen on its ass again" is the most common Active Desktop
I see, and it's just another risk to leave it enabled.



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