My PC is runing very slow.. I can see that winword.exe is runing at 99%?

Question

how can it takes a long time to open an email or any othet application. operating system is XP

Answer 1

hit ctrl alt del at the same time then click processes then stop winword.

Answer 2

Your RAM might be overloaded. I found that after following the helpers listed below, my speed improved dramatically.

- Many users are not aware of how much RAM is used by wallpaper and/or a screensaver full of graphics. They run in the background and consume memory. (I have only 512mb RAM, run multiple programs simultaneously, and have set my wallpaper and screensaver to blank.)

I don’t do games, but I do know they are primarily graphics which need and use a lot of memory.

- How many programs do you load at startup? Maybe you should check it out and ensure you are running just what you need.
To do this: cl Start, cl Settings, cl Taskbar and Start Menu.
-cl Start Menu, cl Customize, cl Remove.
-cl the icon for the program you wish to remove
-then cl Remove.
-This will prevent the program from loading at startup, but will not remove the program from the hard disk.

-When you are working in a large file, save frequently to restore full memory access. (Your work remains in memory until you “save” it to disk.)

1.Did you run an error check? Open My Computer,
Right-cl on C:, Select Properties, Tools – Run an Error Check ( checkmark “check all and fix); then run a Defrag

2.Are you using Yahoo Toolbar? Run a full Norton Antispy.

3.From IE, click Tools, Internet Options
delete cookies
delete files (offline files)
clear history (set days to save to 0 if you want)
click o.k., and Restart

3.click Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools – run Disk Cleanup

4.click Start, Run ipconfig renew (type ipconfig space renew)

All these things should be done regularly. The more frequently they are run, the less time they take.
-Note: Games and videos are mostly graphics. Graphics create large files. If this doesn’t help, you should consider getting more memory.

Answer 3

Compuer speed is dependant in large part to the amopunt of RAM Memory your system has. You should check to see if you have enough free RAM (GFo to task manager and the performance tab to check this out). If you do not have much free RAM, then your system is usuing the swap file or virtual memory for the word program. If this is the case, free up some RAM. Check your start up items and see what you can get rid of. Outside of that, shut down Word, Reboot completely and try again. You may need to reinstall word too if it keeps happening. But I would first look to resources as the issue. Good Luck!

Answer 4

Make sure word is running from the correct folder. It should be something like

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10

If it's elsewhere, you have a virus of some sort.

Outlook also uses word. Close outlook and see if that helps.

Another possibility, although this will sound silly.... Shut word. Do a search for files called normal.dot and DELETE ALL OF THEM. If you're worried about deleting them, rename them to something else. Then restart word. Normal.dot will magically reappear, and if it was corrupt it will be happy now.

Answer 5

A fragmented disk will surely sluggish issues down, surprisingly while you're utilising fairly some digital memory. so which you're doing the excellent element with the defragmenter. you additionally can verify that classes working interior the history are no longer protecting issues up (I certainly have stumbled on that removing Norton Antivirus and installation AVG instead speeds issues up plenty).

Answer 6

you have a virus trogen or spyware or need to clean out all the cookies and unnecessary stuff.............. all these programs are free, download ccleaner check all the stuff down to advanced run it run also check for problems and check fix.....download soybot, adaware and run the free virus scan and removal from bitdefender it takes a long time, after all this you should be runnung fast and stable. ABOVE ITS NOT SOYBOT IT IS SPYBOT SEARCH AND DESTROY, SORRY.

Answer 7

Kill winword.exe and re-install Microsoft Office and all the Office patches.

Answer 8

You may want to kill word. ctr-alt-del and under user Applications
tab select word. At the bottom press End Task.

Answer 9

Go To
programs then
accesoriies then
System tools
then
Defragment

Answer 10

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