"John Inzer" <oobie@doobie.xyz> wrote in message
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> Richard Daish wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have Windows XP (SP3) and I have bought and installed Office 2007
>> Pro.
>> One of the programs I use regularly is Picture Manager, but I am
>> having a lot of trouble accessing it. Sometimes it starts, often I
>> have to wait up to 10 mins for it to start, and sometimes it
>> completely ignores the command. I have tried using Run; clicking on
>> the program in Windows Explorer, but it still behaves badly.
>>
>> As far as I am aware, I have no viruses nor spyware (checked daily
>> recently) Can anyone enlighten me, please?
> =================================
> Maybe the following article would be worth a look:
>
> Office Picture Manager very slow to open
> http://tinyurl.com/657str
> or...
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/officept/arc...w-to-open.aspx
>
> Good luck...
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Digital Media MVP
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
Brilliant John, thank you very much indeed.
The problem was that I had sent some pictures to another computer, on its
shared folder, which was now turned off, and Picture Manager was trying to
open the remote computer's shared folder. I had to wait for it to
"time-out". Your solution was excellent.
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