Dear John,
When I looked into the Task manager, I found that at times 60% of memory was
in use. I disabled Adobe Version Cue to reduce memory load to around 35%.
On the hope that you were correct about memory being the problem, I upgraded
the memory to 2 GB. Memory usage is now low, but the problem is unchanged,
so memory is not the problem. I also disabled Norton 2006 AV and NIS, but
these changes also had no effect.

"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote:

Yeah. I agree that it's unlikely to be a RAM issue if you have 1 GB of RAM.

However, do me a favour and have a look in Control panelSystem and see if
all of that RAM is still responding... I had to replace a motherboard
recently because it kept spitting out one stick of RAM, effectively cutting
me back to half the installed RAM.

When you say "no other windows open", how many other "applications" do you
have open? If Word is the only application open, and even if only half your
RAM is responding, it should still switch windows briskly.

OK, we're going to have to get scientific here. Open Task Manager, set up
graphs for CPU and Disk Paging and watch what's going on when you switch
from one app to the other.

If it's pounding the disk, chances are it's paging, which means "something"
is gobbling the available memory. If it's maxing the CPU, chances are the
AntiVirus is going off its head.

We could sit around guessing about what it "might" be all night: we need to
go look :-)

Cheers


On 1/4/06 6:02 PM, in article
, "Block306"
wrote:

Thanks, John but that is definitely NOT THE problem. I have a 1 Gb RAM and
the problem happens even if I have NO other windows open.


"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote:

This is a classic sign that you do not have enough "Memory" in the computer.

Talk to your system administrator about adding RAM to your desktop PC.


On 31/3/06 3:22 PM, in article
, "Block306"
wrote:

I run Word and has Acrobat Professional 7 installed on my pc as well. I have
the same set-ups on my desktop and laptop. Both runs on WinXP SP2.
On my desktop, when using Word, I noticed that my system slows down when I
switched from one Word document to another word document (or other
applications for that matter). My desktop will hang with the hour glass for
at least 15 seconds whenever I does that. The same problem does not arise in
my laptop.
I have checked all the places that I know of to check (options etc) but to
no avail.
Can someone please advise? Thanks.

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