Dont know why you need to troubleshoot MSWORD performance from that angle.
Printer drives should not give problem.
Why dont you troubleshoot from the User Profile approach.
Check you profile, what is the size of your profile? (generally, after
installing WinXP, you profile should be under 16Mbytes (max).
Try this approach: Goto to these locations and delete all the shortcuts to
trim your profile.
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Application
Data\Microsoft\Office\Recent
C:\Documents and Settings\willie\Local Settings -- delete all items in
Temporary Internet files; Temp folder; History folder;
C:\Documents and Settings\willie\Recent - delete all the shortcuts;
If your profile is still large, try checking your profile to see if there
are any programs that is installed with default path leading to your profile.
If there are remove them now.

Now check your profile, it should run well if its reduced to say 35Mbytes.
It sure will help you bootup and shutdown. This issue was resolved since
2003, dont know why its still asked.

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