Windows 10: Word documents take up to 15-20 sec to open and "open with" crashes or hangs.

Word documents take up to 15-20 sec to open and right clicking on file to use "open with" crashes or hangs.


How do I fix this problem which started a week ago.


I downloaded and ran CCleaner which solved the problem...for half an hour.


Now running CCleaner does nothing.


Any help?

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Opening Word documents

Hi MPHowe

Can you please provide a bit more detail on your question . . .

1

Do you get an error when trying to open Word documents, and if so, is that for all documents and what is printed on that error?

2

Can you open Word form its application icon, and if so, if you go to File - Open, can you open a Word document form there, rather than double clicking a Word document?

3

As an initial step, follow these steps to perform a full repair of your Office installation . . .

Open Control Panel - Programs and Features

Click Microsoft Office in the list of installed applications

At the top, click 'Change'

On the resulting dialog, click 'Repair' - choose the Online Repair, it is a comprehensive fix

That should fix any issues with your Office Installation . . .

NOTE: Please be advised, if you are running Office 2013 or earlier, before attempting a repair, have your Microsoft Office Product Key at hand, Office may need to be re-activated in some cases

 

opening word documents

My laptop will not open current saved documents in word on desktop. A window opens and goes to reconfigure, then asks if I want to reboot. After reboot the same thing happens when I try to open a word document. This happens with all of word documents on
desktop. However, word documents open with no problem through my email.

I thought I had Windows 10 but on my programs list I also see Windows 2016.

Any ideas?

 

Opening a Word Document

Thank you for replying. The first line of my post did say

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  "I need to open a Word Document on a government website to complete a form."