Shortcuts & Attachments Taking Ages to Open

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Searched but cannot find a solution to this one!

 

Shortcuts (desktop/ program list) and attachment (emails- Excel/ Word

files) can take upto 3 minutes to open on my XP PC. During this time

the egg-timer appears and often the machine just feezes. Eventually

Word, or whatever, will open and things will carry on as normal.

 

I have tried opening some of the same files as macro/toolbar buttons

from within Excel/ Word and they are instantly opening.

 

These are local files- not those on the network.

 

This seems to affect M/Soft office files worst (Adobe are fine, for

example) and is not consistent. A Word template has just frozen my PC

for 2 minutes after clicking on the shortcut on the desktop, whilst a

Word file opened from explorer in seconds.

 

Any clues gratefully received!

 

Feenee