chris

i have the same problem, my network has 5 xp pc's wireless connected, and
printing dialogue speed has always been ok, but now i have connected a vista
machine and printing a page is hell, dialogues won't appear for about a
minute and printing a page while adjusting the settings takes about forever.
when i attach the printer to the vista machine, all goes well, locally and
wireless with xp machines.
i have already posted this but no reply came, maybe we'll just have to ask
bill's boys about this, cause in my office environment this delay is
unacceptable (sorry for spelling mistakes, i'm from belgium)

"ChrisOlley" wrote:

> I have a Dell AMD dual core 4200 with 2MB RAM running Vista Home premium. It
> is connected to a wired windows home network setup with 4 PCs running windows
> XP home. Generally the speed of the system e.g. internet is acceptable.
> However, office software runs slowly. Notably I am running word 2002. While
> editing quite small documents the system pauses, showing the waiting circle
> for a couple of seconds before returning. Most notably, the print dialogue
> takes 12 seconds before it appears. (The printers are attached to an XP Home
> machine). I have installed openoffice2.2 and word 2003 and uninstalled (them
> afterwards) and they all behave pretty much the same ie. generally slow and
> very slow print dialogue.