slow Office97

[idr]

I work with Windows XP Home ed. With Office 97 and several other programs on my offline computer.
Lately I encounter problems with loading the Word97 files. The Word window opens without problems and I have no problem to save the file in any stage of work.
However when I want to load some of my Word files, the “Open” window loads very slowly. The same happens when I try to load the file directly from the “my computer>disk>folder”. It takes about 10-20 sec till the file appears.
I found no problems with loading other program files, and this happens only with Word.
I tried to reload the program from disk, and also defragmented both my HD partitions, but it didn’t help.
I also clean the memory every day with CCleaner
What can be the reason for this Office problem?
Is it possible to check the disk performance, and how to do it? I do not find the check-disk option on XP
Please advise
Thanks

[w1che]

This may help you.. http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=wrd20