mercurius

One other thing which may be a clue here. When the freezing happened last, I looked in Windows Task Manager and noticed that a file called pavfires.exe was taking up 97-99% of the CPU capacity. It turns out that this is part of my Pandasoft Antivirus software. Presumably it is checking for viruses, etc. in My documents. However, it's extremely irritating and I wonder whether anyone else has had this and, if so, how they have got round it. Or do i just need to be patient? Thanks, mercurius

Sorry, Nitroshift, not sure I understand the question. Can you please explain? Thanks, mercurius

I have recently upgraded to Office 2003 and find that when I use Word, I often have to wait in the Open file dialogue box for 30 - 60 secs plus for the system to respond when I am tring to navigate to the right folder. I have also upgraded the RAM from 512 to 1 gigabyte. Can anyone suggest what the problem might be and how I could cure it? mercurius