Word XP opens very slowly...

check for fragmentation. Defrag if necessary.

then try remove wordxp totally including the folder. Remove whole office package if possible. Then re-install.

If that still doesn't work then probably your machine is under power. Cause win2k needs a lot more resources to run. When you run it with AD, at lot of processes are running in the background. Maybe your RAM is used up.

In addition to answer #1, Discovery Computing put out a tip that covers pretty much everything about delays in Word. The site is www.dcomp.com.

"The first thing to check is your anti-virus software. Some programs check Word documents for viruses before allowing you to see them. If you practice "safe document sharing" for your PC, you can disable or uninstall the virus-protection feature that checks documents. (You should leave the rest of your virus checking in place so you don't compromise security.)

Next, start Word using the /a switch on the command line. Doing so starts the program without any add-ins loaded. If this fixes the problem, you can then tell it was because of a Word add-in, and you can delete or modify the add-in.

If you are running Outlook in addition to Word, either disable the journaling feature in Outlook (for Word documents), or exit Outlook completely. Journaling can cause quite a few slowdowns as it saves document info to disk at a regular internal.

It is also possible that a slowdown is due to some other program running on your system, and that program is hogging resources needed by Word. Try shutting down all your other programs, or open the Task Manager and examine (on the Processes tab) what programs are hogging your resources.

Another thing to try is to clear out both the temp folder used by Windows (normally called C:\Documents and Settings\[userid]\Local Settings\Temp) and the folder in which the documents are located. If the folders are cluttered with many files, then it can take longer to do the file manipulations that inherent in switching from one document to another."
HTH