Word & Excel get very slow response too often

[PaulCCC]

I have several new Ultra PC's Celeron 2.8 ghz 256 M ram loaded with XP PROF
SP2, Office XP SBE, SAV 9.0, etc. These are nice quick PC's mostly. 1 to
several times per day it gets very slow on opening Word or excel files. It
seems that when open box is selected it goes out & get the list of network
share folders so you can select your file. This takes anywhere from a few
seconds to 2 full minutes just to see the list of shares. Same on save as
selection. Performance at these times shows very little CPU usage, but
everything else you may try to do is very slow also. The app may say Not
Responding, but if you are patient a few minutes it will come back & give you
a file selection list. Something is tying up the computer without using
much CPU power.

Any ideas???

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Right-click on the My Computer icon on the Windows desktop, left-click