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Excel and Word Documents slow down From shared 2003 server on XP Pro Clients

I have a small network running 4 client computers (XP) Pro and a 2003 server. My network shares quickbooks pro from a mapped drive, a piece of proprietary software called CLIPS and has a folder with client information mostly jpgs, excel and word documents.
Quickbooks and CLIPS run fine all day no problem with speed at all, but the excel and word documents, after a short period about an hour or so after the client computers have been running, please note only the clients , the acessing of files from the shared folder slow down completely. This is really driving me up the wall, if i restart the machines the files move fast after a while it slows down again only on excel and word, the jpgs are fine excel fine and so is word, is this a server problem or client problem??
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It seams to be a server problem, you did reboot the server didn't you?? After that it became faster??

I never heard of a problem like this. If you rebooted the server and after that it goes faster, i'd suggest you'd do a reïnstall of the 2003 server. I see you only have 4 clients, so reïnstall wouldn't be all that much af a problem... ;).

If the clients are rebooted, then try reïnstalling the office suite (i'd suggest you install Office XP on a XP workstation) and do a full install of office.
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