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Hello and sorry for bad English.

I'm having a problem with Windows 2003 server. Clients have Windows XP SP2 installed.
I'm sharing a folder which contains Excel and Word files. If I try to open them from WinXP machine I have to wait like 30-60 seconds before they open.

Recently I have changed permissions to read-only and suddenly documents started to open in 2 seconds. As I give write permission on the shared folder, documents open slowly again.

What can I do to make it go away? Thanks for your help in advance.

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Member Avatar for reganstar

If your excel and word files are created with Office 2007 and you open them with Office 2003 it's normal because should make a conversion. Otherwise I don't know what is the problem.

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Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately this is not the issue. All documents are created with Office 2003.

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