Try Windows diagnostic tools, such as RegMon and FileMon from
www.sysinternals.com
It wont tell you what, but it will give you clues.

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Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"domestic911" wrote in message
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When using spreadsheets, everything is extremely slow, such as moving from
one cell to the next, saving, etc. This is on the hard drive. I also have
saved spreadsheets on a ZIP disk and those seem to be trying to open but
won't, possibly because it takes so long. The one on disk that I can open,
if
I try to do anything, such as move a worksheet or copy a worksheet, the
computer freezes up and won't do anything. I have to shut it down and
start
over. I had memory added and that didn't change a thing. I also did the
disk
fragment and that stuff and that didn't do anything either.