Cannot Open File in Windows Explorer Paul, 11/14/2008 1:57:41 AM I have had my computer for almost 2 years running with Windows XP Home edition. Have had no problems until about 3 weeks ago. I open Windows explorer open my C drive, click on a folder and try to open a file, (word or excel) and I get a message program not responding. Sometimes I do not get this message and can open a file. Most of the time I get the error message. When I open either word or excel as a new document and do a file / open I can get into either the word or excel file I want with no problem. I have not added any new s/w. I have defrag'd my computer and cleaned out all temp files & cache. I have McAfee anti-virus. It always seems to run OK. Do I have a bug? How can I fix this issue? Thank you to anyone in advance for your help. -- Paul

Re: Cannot Open File in Windows Explorer "ColTom2" <noemailaddress[ at ]nomail.com> 11/14/2008 2:36:12 PM http://word.tips.net/Pages/T000316_Cant_Open_a_Word_Document_in_Windows.html "Paul," <Paul[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E4E1BBBD-EDFC-43E4-A507-CE89424FD08E[ at ]microsoft.com... I have had my computer for almost 2 years running with Windows XP Home edition. Have had no problems until about 3 weeks ago. I open Windows explorer open my C drive, click on a folder and try to open a file, (word or excel) and I get a message program not responding. Sometimes I do not get this message and can open a file. Most of the time I get the error message. When I open either word or excel as a new document and do a file / open I can get into either the word or excel file I want with no problem. I have not added any new s/w. I have defrag'd my computer and cleaned out all temp files & cache. I have McAfee anti-virus. It always seems to run OK. Do I have a bug? How can I fix this issue? Thank you to anyone in advance for your help. -- Paul