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Keef
5th Aug 2005, 19:50
I'm sure I've screwed up a setting somewhere, but...

If I'm in any of the MS Office products, and click on "save", then want to change to a different folder or hard drive, every step of the process to get to the new folder takes about ten to fifteen seconds.

In Word, click on "File", "Save As", and then the black triangle alongside "Save In" and the box blanks and everything freezes.

Eventually, the whole drive/folder tree appears. Clicking on any drive works, but trying to select a folder on that drive starts the fifteen second queue again, and so on.

This happens ONLY with MS Office. All other software that I use has no problem at all, and I can skate around the drives and folders instantaneously.

What have I done wrong? Or what has Mr Gates done wrong?

SilentlyScreaming
12th Aug 2005, 15:10
long shot, but could you try repeating this scenario, but with a disk in the floppy drive?

zoink
12th Aug 2005, 18:00
do you have antivirus set to search through office files? I had the same problem and after I told my antivirus to scan during idle times it went away!!

forget
13th Aug 2005, 10:05
Zoink, Sounds like it may improve things for me too - but I can't see how to do it?

zoink
26th Sep 2005, 12:28
forget

Let me know the type of anti virus you have installed and I'll have a look..

Apologies for the delay but I was on me hols... :ok: