Hello Again, I am also having a strange problem with Microsoft Word 2002 on my desktop where I am running XP Home edition and JFW 8.0. Word takes at least one minute or longer to open and close. It does this from an existing document or if I open Word from the desktop. I also have a laptop with Word 2002 and XP home with JFW 7.1 on it and Word opens and closes with ease. I have 2gb of ram on the desktop and only 512mb on the laptop and both are Pentium 4 processors, so there is no major differences in processor performance. Does anyone have any ideas on how to speed this up? Take care, John