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PROBLEM SOLVED !! I got the following message off another forum: Phil Rabichow has an excellent Systematic Approach to Behavioral Problems in Word (97/2000) http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=197827 Although I had replaced Normal.dot twice already today, it was still...

In THIS instance of the problem I can open Word with a blank document OK. I can then open lots more blank documents. When I have Wrod running I can SOMETIMES do a File/Open on SMALL existing documents (a few K), but nothing large. One thing I did do was to install this morning's Windows...

This has happened before on several systems with several OS's and several Office versions, but I never know what fixes it... Word will not open existing documents, but will SOMETIMES open up with a blank document. Sometimes not. Even when it does open a blank document, it often hangs on...

I've never had "Auto Arrange" checked. Nonetheless, unlike any previous Windows version (I've been using and supporting Windows since 1.0 - still have the 3-1/2" floppies) XP periodically moves everything to the left, arranged in their heirarchy and alphabetically within that. I...

OK, maybe this isn't how Microsoft intends me to work. However, I prefer to keep a fairly large number of folders on my desktop for quick access. I only use the Start menu to access things I don't use often. Surely I can't be unique? Certainly I must be missing something in XP that will...

Maybe a long shot, but an accurate one. That was it - specifically the "Show Shadows Under Menus" selection. Click it and the menus bog down - the more entries in the menu system, the slower. Hence, Favorites were very slow, Program Files noticeably slow, but by comparison most...

Nope - I keep the startup junk to a minimum anyway, but I have had a few additions in the last week, and I just did a diagnostic restart with all that disabled, and the problem is still there. Now I have none of my old favorites, but I did put in 2 new ones into an otherwise default Favorites...

OK - it is definitely a corrupted Favorites folder. But when I import my exported favorites the problem comes back. Is there by any chance a maximum number of favorites before XP gags? I have a large number of entries - 16 KB - although I have actually removed some in recent weeks / days...

Tried both of those - no deal. Whatever it is, it's afefcting the common portions of IE and Windows Explorer. Even the Programs menu in Start is slow now, although Favorites is the worst. XP won't let me - as Administrator - remove the favorites folder itself and if I rename it it just uses...

The problem is now spreading to other menus. TweakUI's menu speed option has no perceptible effect on menu speed on this system, although of course that feature works on every other system I've put it on. The Favorites menus are still the slowest - and now it's not just the IE6 Favorites, but...

Thanks, but as I mentioned, I don't have SP1 installed. I reformatted and reinstalled XP after I had removed SP1, and I haven't let Windows Update reinstall it. I have TweakUI, but the problem is not my menu speed overall, it's that the Favorites menu in IE (only after the first access) is...

Installed SpyBot. It detected some ad cookies, which I removed. It also detected 3 registyr entries related to Windows Media Player (no company names, etc. - just some settings) and 5 unanswered MS security holes. Some background on my system: Before this IE problem I had removed two of the...

Thanks for the tip. However, that's the trick I mentioned in my original post. It worked the first time i did it (a few days ago) but the problem came back in less than a day. Deleting that file now does no good. Incidentally, I forgot to mention that when I first invoke IE the...

Internte Explorer 6 SP1 has begun hanging or running extremely slow when attempting to choose a Favorite url. I have read and done the trick requiring removal of the "....\Temporary Internet Files\Contend.IE5 index.dat" file. That worked the first time, but a day or less later the...