when I have a document open for editing, my egg timer comes up every 10s. I
have turned off autosave but this has not cured it ...... Help!

Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete, select the Task Manager, and display the list of
processes. Watch to see what's running every ten seconds.



"silvester208" wrote in message
...
when I have a document open for editing, my egg timer comes up every 10s.
I
have turned off autosave but this has not cured it ...... Help!

There is no 'autosave' in Word trhere is only an option to save autorecover
information - which operates in minutes not seconds. You might want to turn
that back on. The likely candidate is your AV software.

Checking of Word/Office documents can usually be deselected in the AV
program e.g. in Norton AV by turning off its Office Plug-in.

With some versions of the Norton product it may be necessary to unregister
the calling DLL by running the following command line from Windows Start
Run

regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton antivirus\officeav.dll"
or
regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton systemworks\norton
antivirus\officeav.dll"

Other AV apps eg the popular free ediition of Grisoft's AVG antivirus
software, require similar treatment.
In this instance:

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\avgoff2k.dll"


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


silvester208 wrote:
when I have a document open for editing, my egg timer comes up every
10s. I have turned off autosave but this has not cured it ...... Help!