I have MS Office 2003, my O/S is XP Pro. It (office) has been working as would be expected for the last 2 years. Recently, when I use any Office program I can’t seem to drill down through folders to find a file that I want to open. Instead, the Office software will lock up.
Example using Word to open a document I previously created. I open Word, I go “File” “Open” and there is a window that shows I am in My Documents with all of the folders I have created and the ones that come with windows. If I try to open any of these folders I get the perpetual hour glass and never get past that level. At this point, I have to open the task manager in order to interrupt the process. It inevitably always says “Not Responding”. And I have to use task manager to interrupt it and close it.
However, if I find the file through windows explorer or by going to the my documents shortcut on my desktop, and find the file that way not using Office software, I find that I can double click on the file and it will open in the right software with no problems.
Any ideas on what may be causing this?
Also, I have IE 6.0.2900.2180 with SP2.
I use to have no problem with this. Now, if I type a URL into the address bar my ?Windows? flag (upper right corner) will start waving but my system will never go to the address I typed in. I tried with popular addresses and with not well known addresses. I get the same result both times. However, my home page www.google.com and any address in my favorites works with no problems. Example – let?s use www.nfl.com. If I type that URL into the address bar on IE explorer I get nothing. Just the indication via the waving Windows flag in the upper right corner that something is happening, but nothing ever does. But if I type it into Google and then choose the www.nfl.com selection that Google comes up with, no problem, I go right to that page. I don?t know what caused this.
Any ideas on this one?