RE: Word 2003 Problem
- From: "Cristobal" <crismunoz54@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:49:37 -0700
You know, I tried a lot of this too. Turning off this and that program.
Disabling services and all sorts of stuff when I was having my problems with
the word processors. Nothing really helped. My laptop has 1gig of ram so
it's got a decent amount. Hopefully your friend will have better luck than
me, but like I said, what ended up fixing it for me was upgrading. Just to
make clear, the only problem I had was with the word processing programs.
Surfing the Net, streaming audio and even using other programs such as Excel
and so on worked perfectly fine.
Cristobal
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chip Orange
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 7:07 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Word 2003 Problem
Then it sounds like she'll either have to add more memory (the much more
preferable solution), or give up the antivirus; turn off the firewall,
and other less than desirable things to get more memory and more
processor back.
She should consider turning off some of the windows services like the
indexing service and terminal services (assuming she's not being helped
by someone using remote desktop or remote access).
Only the windows indexing service will perhaps make a large difference,
but the others, well, every little bit can make a difference.
hth,
Chip
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Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Hallsworth
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:42 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Word 2003 Problem
>
> Thanks Chip, greatly appreciated. She has 512 MB of memory,
> Avast! Antivirus
> and Super Antispyware. She uses the Windows Firewall as her firewall.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:28 PM
> Subject: RE: Word 2003 Problem
>
>
> > It sounds like she's got a slow pc with too little memory,
> and like us
> > all, over time has added more and more software packages
> which run at
> > startup, and so are running when she's trying to run Word.
> >
> > Removing some of these (firewalls, antivirus, antispyware,
> all kinds of
> > convenience software, etc.) would help; of course, so would adding
> > memory if she doesn't have at least 2gb.
> >
> > Deleting normal.dot won't hurt; almost no one has
> customized it so that
> > they would mind losing it. If she has just try renaming it instead.
> >
> > hth,
> >
> > Chip
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
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> > Chip Orange
> > Database Administrator
> > Florida Public Service Commission
> >
> > Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > (850) 413-6314
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> > (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
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> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Hallsworth
> >> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:45 PM
> >> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Word 2003 Problem
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> E-mailing on behalf of a friend who's experiencing sluggish
> >> performance when
> >> creating or opening files in Word 2003. This only happens for
> >> some time,
> >> then the performance is back. She's using JAWS 8 as her
> >> screen reader,
> >> running in 40 minute mode. Would deleting normal.dot solve
> >> the problem? What
> >> else could she do? Thanks in advance for the help.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Chris Hallsworth
> >>
> >> Derbyshire, UK
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> >> E-mail
> >> christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >> MSN
> >> ch9675@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >> Skype
> >> chrishallsworth7266
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> >> Website
> >> http://www.chrishallsworth.co.nr
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> >> Klango
> >> chrishallsworth
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