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Thread #58000   Message #915221
Posted By: Bullfrog Jones
21-Mar-03 - 06:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Computer Tech Help
Subject: BS: Computer Tech Help
I hope someone can offer some advice before I tear out what's left of my hair! A couple of days ago my computer(Windows 98) became reluctant to open Word and XL documents, taking about 3-4 minutes each time. I rounded up the usual suspects --- did a defrag, scandisk, virus-check, emptied out temp files, deleted normal.dot, but no joy. I've discovered that once I'm inside Word or XL I can use File/Open and they come through as normal, but existing documents opened through their own icons take forever. Word and XL are loaded as part of Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business by the way and I can't find the disc to reload them. Any ideas?

BJ