Thought I might post it here and see if anyone has suggestions to fix this..... Whenever I attempt to select a folder in which to save or open a Microsoft Word/Excel/Outlook/etc file, the program temporarily freezes up. This is basically what happens step-by-step: 1) Go to File and Select 'Open' (or 'Save') 2) Click on the drawdown arrow for the "Look in" box 3) The program temporarily freezes for about a minute, then unfreezes and I am able to select the folder I want. The problem will reoccur if I close the 'Open' or 'Save' box. Anyone else ever had this problem?
Is your machine trying to access your floppy/cd drive? I've seen that before, and it causes a freeze to happen for a few seconds.
I don't think so - the freeze occurs before I can select whatever folder or drive. Once it's completed it's freeze period, there's no delay.
Yeah, the delay might be if you have an external drive hooked up or disks in your optical/floppy drives. Or your computer is loaded w/ crap that slows it down in creating the list.
Is this at work? Do you have mapped network drives? if so are any of them inaccessible at the moment? Maybe a network printer that isn't connected or online? Could be your PC timing out while trying to connect to these resources.
I have this same "problem" at home. Mine is because the computer is looking at all the drives I have. If you have media in any removable drives then it tends to slow Office down while it catalogs your system structure. If you take any disks that are not needed out of their drives it should speed things up a bit. It also won't hurt anything if you leave them in, it will just continue to pause while it reads them.
there is some file in a folder in my program files, and whenever i open that folder, the whole computer locks up and i have to restart it. if i do a virus scan and it gets to that folder, the whole computer locks up and i have to restart also. i have windows vista, so it may just be a bug, but it sucks.
