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sperrie · 02-28-2005, 08:55 AM

Hi Michael, I happened to see your question when I was doing a google search for the same problem. Mine now works fine. I found that it was opening files slowly because my norton antivirus was checking the file for viruses before it opened it. Just like you, it was only slow when I wasn't opening it from within the program (Word or Excel).
I opened the Norton program, clicked on "options", went to "anti-virus". Under "miscellaneous", I "unchecked" the "enable office plugins".
After I rebooted my system I can open the files in just a couple seconds now. Hope this helps.

02-28-2005, 08:55 AM	#2 (permalink)
sperrie Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1 OS: xp-home	Try this Hi Michael, I happened to see your question when I was doing a google search for the same problem. Mine now works fine. I found that it was opening files slowly because my norton antivirus was checking the file for viruses before it opened it. Just like you, it was only slow when I wasn't opening it from within the program (Word or Excel). I opened the Norton program, clicked on "options", went to "anti-virus". Under "miscellaneous", I "unchecked" the "enable office plugins". After I rebooted my system I can open the files in just a couple seconds now. Hope this helps.