And everyone wonders why this bug continues to live on for some 10 years.
Bob
Hi,
I've been running my Micron Millennia P/C now for 5 years. Within the last year I upgraded my OS from Win 98SE to WinXP Home. Everything seems to be working OK with the exception of when I try to work with my WORD 2000, or open an attachment using WORD.
My systems specs are;
Micron Millennia PC, 30 Gig internal HD, 160 Gig external Lacie HD, 383 MB RAM, WinXP Home (with sp 2), Microsoft Office 2000 Professional, Norton Antivirus 2005, Norton Firewall 2005, Spybot Search & Destroy, IE 6.0, and connected to the Internet via a cable modem.
So here's the gremlin I'm facing...ever since getting XP, everytime I open up an attachment to an email, or try to work in WORD, the first thing that happens is that I have to wait 60 seconds (yeah, I time it!) for the ''Requesting Virus Scan'' to complete and for the curser to appear indicating the software is ready.
If I forget about letting this cycle finish first and try to do anything, the WORD icon in the top bar goes blank, and in parenthesis beside the document title appears (NOT RESPONDING). Then I get a pop-up box which tells me the program is not responding. Then I have to decide whether to END or CANCEL the program and then decide whether I need to send Microsoft yet another of my ''ga-jillion'' error reports and end the program.
In all other respects the system is working well. But this is turning into a frustrating little PITA! Any suggestions?
Thank you so much as always,
bigeasy

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