Office very slow when using pull down to open files 1

[thefrstgatsby]

For some reason, when I open a file in Excel, or Word, as soon as I use the pull down (look under) menu, the program freezes for a while, then the pulldown will finally "pulldown" with the directories.

Any ideas on why this might be happening?

I'm using windows xp, and office 2003

 

[dhulbert]

it's usually caused by slow network connections or having unavaliable drive mapings on your machine.
Go to windows explorer and chack all of your network drives are connected properly

 

[thefrstgatsby]

Thanks, stupid thing is, I had that problem on my computer and knew it to be the cause, but I forgot I had mapped a drive on her computer. :-(