System is dangerously low in resources

Is Word installed on your work station? What loads at start up on this computer? What is the cpu speed 75 mghz, 266mhz ect. how much memory is installed? What is your network connection speed? Try removing things from the start up, and cleaning up the hard drive.
Try using the ctrl+ alt+ del keys once to see what is running.

This is either;
1) A memory Conflict. Go to Start Run, type msconfig and change the startup options. Remove startup programs until the problem goes away You can easily add and remove startup programs to find the problem.

2) A problem with theWord Installation. It could be in the registry. If option 1 above does not work, I would remove word/office reboot and reinstall.

Hope this helps

Try

Go to the WIndows\Temp directory

Delete all the .tmp files in it.

If you find one that will not delete you will need to boot to command prompt and do it from there.

For some reason Office can really mess up the works with leftover items in the WIndows\Temp directory

Good luck

After looking at all of the great sugesstions that you recieved I have two that you should try:
1) Do a Scandisk and Disk Defrag and reboot I like to do that once a month or so.

2) Go to the system proprties/performance/graphics and minimize thehardware accelerator and see if that helps.

Good luck

Dwain,
Looking in your system tray on the lower right hand side of your screen; how many applications do you have running?
Bringing up programs on start up is a big waste of valuable resources. Only run virus scan, and your standard OS stuff. Everything else, you can go and look for them to open them. After closing most of the programs in your system tray, you will see a dramatic improvement of your resources.
Also - make sure you run a virus scan first!!! You may have a virus running in the background and not even know it!

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