Guest Bob Taylor Posted August 27, 2008 Posted August 27, 2008 Two problems with XP SP3 I started with Win XP 32bit sp2 everything running fine, installed sp3 and ran into two problems: First - windows explorer was very slow in displaying file names - this occurred in explorer itself, but also in any file dialog. This problem has cleared up - I am not sure which of the various things did it - I changed the display options, but have set them all back - I increased the page space from the system managed, installed net framework 2.00. In any case, the problem seems to have completely gone away and everything is running fine except: Second problem - Quickbooks 2003 AND 2005 (the only versions I have tried) BOTH take five minutes to load! Once the program is loaded, it works fine and I can change company files without any delay at all. It has nothing to do with the data file. Something is delaying in the program load. I reinstalled 2005, but no improvement. I have googled everything I could think of, but can find nothing. One peculiar thing: while the Loading Quickbooks window is on the screen for a while, the Explorer window "blinks", i.e. the files panel is reset. I have never seen this behaviour before. But then, I have never had to sit here for five minutes watching either. (To answer the inevitable question, I am an accountant and run multiple versions of qb on multiple files because that is what my clients have.) Thanks for reading my problem and I hope you have a suggestion, Bob Taylor philologos at mindspring dot com
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted August 27, 2008 Posted August 27, 2008 Re: Two problems with XP SP3 Free unlimited installation and compatibility support is available for Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 Apr-09. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada. Go to http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | select Windows XP | select Windows XP Service Pack 3 -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ Bob Taylor wrote: > Two problems with XP SP3 > > I started with Win XP 32bit sp2 everything running fine, installed > sp3 and ran into two problems: > First - windows explorer was very slow in displaying file names - this > occurred in explorer itself, but also in any file dialog. This > problem has cleared up - I am not sure which of the various things did > it - I changed the display options, but have set them all back - I > increased the page space from the system managed, installed net > framework 2.00. In any case, the problem seems to have completely > gone away and everything is running fine except: > > Second problem - Quickbooks 2003 AND 2005 (the only versions I have > tried) BOTH take five minutes to load! Once the program is loaded, > it works fine and I can change company files without any delay at all. > It has nothing to do with the data file. Something is delaying in > the program load. I reinstalled 2005, but no improvement. I have > googled everything I could think of, but can find nothing. > > One peculiar thing: while the Loading Quickbooks window is on the > screen for a while, the Explorer window "blinks", i.e. the files > panel is reset. I have never seen this behaviour before. But then, I > have never had to sit here for five minutes watching either. > > (To answer the inevitable question, I am an accountant and run > multiple versions of qb on multiple files because that is what my > clients have.) > > > Thanks for reading my problem and I hope you have a suggestion, > > Bob Taylor > philologos at mindspring dot com
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