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Suddenly, "save as" takes many seconds for save dialogue to appear
Posted by BillJosephson on December 20th, 2006


Hello, thanks for any help. All of a sudden, whether working in
microsoft word, excel, notepad, or photoshop, using the "save as"
command results in a delay of 10 - 30 seconds before the save dialogue
opens up. My hard drive is not full. Once the dialogue opens I can save
OK.

Thanks for any ideas....

Posted by BillJosephson on December 21st, 2006



Evan Platt wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I'm using winXT, and it doesn't matter where I
try to save it.


Posted by BillJosephson on December 22nd, 2006



Evan Platt wrote:

This turned out to be a program I had installed called QuickFolders.
Somehow it started making open and save dialogues slow. I never use it
so just deleted it. I discovered this by using msconfig and
systematically eliminating subsets of programs that start at boot.