pdfernan
June 28th, 2007, 02:57 PM
I recently purchased a new Dell Inspiron 1405 with 1 gig of ram and a 1.73Ghz processor. It is my first computer with Windows Vista. It runs perfectly fine most of the time, but the main reason we purchased it was for my fiancée to do her translation work.
Unfortunately Microsoft Word and Powerpoint both run extremely slow! They load fine, and work alright for a little bit, but after a few minutes they both begin to have horrible lag so that it is nearly imposable to type and have the words appear in real time. This could happen in other programs, but we do not use anything else besides the internet enough to notice.
I have worked with the Dell technical help and they have been unable to resolve the problem, spending most of their time deleting unnecessary programs to help speed up the computer, but it has not made a difference in this problem.
I have also re-installed Microsoft Office, downloaded all of Dell's and Vista's patches etc... to no avial.
Anyone have any ideas? I've been assured many times that my specifications should be sufficient to run Word, but i am beginning to doubt it. I don't really know much about Vista or how much memory it requires.
Unfortunately Microsoft Word and Powerpoint both run extremely slow! They load fine, and work alright for a little bit, but after a few minutes they both begin to have horrible lag so that it is nearly imposable to type and have the words appear in real time. This could happen in other programs, but we do not use anything else besides the internet enough to notice.
I have worked with the Dell technical help and they have been unable to resolve the problem, spending most of their time deleting unnecessary programs to help speed up the computer, but it has not made a difference in this problem.
I have also re-installed Microsoft Office, downloaded all of Dell's and Vista's patches etc... to no avial.
Anyone have any ideas? I've been assured many times that my specifications should be sufficient to run Word, but i am beginning to doubt it. I don't really know much about Vista or how much memory it requires.