Opening office files in explorer

[bjet]

I have problems opening office files outside the office applications.

Ie open a excel file in explorer or from the desktop or from outlook takes minutes, files that

from within excel opens in a sec. The same applies to all office files, but not files like pdfs and txt.

I have tested files within our network and files solely on my harddisk, also files made available offline and files not available offline on my laptop with the same result, indicating that is probably not a network problem.

I'm running XP Prof SP2 and Office 2003 SP2 for small businesses on my Thinkpad Z60m.

[Ctrl-X]

This question should be in the Microsoft Office subforum. One tip: run a full Office repair.

[bjet]

Tried to run rapair on Office. I've also installed SP1 and SP2 without luck. The reason for putting at the xp forum is because I'm still not totally convinced that it is an Office problem. Might even be a virus???

[cluberti]

Try running filemon and regmon while attempting to open your Office document, and see if there's anything in there out of the ordinary. Also, try using Autoruns (http://www.sysinternals.com) and ShellExView (http://www.nirsoft.net) to disable all non-Microsoft startup items/services and Explorer.exe shell extensions and see if the problem persists. A lot of times, these sorts of issues are caused by Explorer shell extension handlers misbehaving.