Excel slow to epen with Network Connection

[Mattosaur4]

Hi

Excel 2003 has recently become very slow to open. Regardless of the
workbook / file. I have disabled all Add-In's and cleaned out the
temp
folder. The slow down appears to be related to having a live
network /
internet connection. If I disable my connection or pull out my
network
cable and launch Excel it opens straight away, if I plug it back in
or
re-enable it it takes 30-45 seconds to open. I have added Excel to
the
Windows Firewall exception list but it still takes around 15-25
seconds to
open a workbook.


Any ideas what its doing? I have read somewhere online about it
before but can't find that article / post / page anymore.


Thanks
Matt
It's a Dell P4 2.6ghz, 1gb of RAM, SATA 160gb HD. And files used to
open
within 2-10 seconds.


Matt

 

[Mattosaur4]

Hi

I have troubleshoot'ed this further and concluded the problem is
related to a Shared Printer I manually connect to. It appears Excel
is trying to contact it and check it's status. The default printer is
however Acrobat Distiller, so I have no idea why its trying to
communicate with that printer. Once connecting to this printer Excel
takes 10 seconds to open instead of 40.

Any ideas on how to tell Excel to not check my Printer's status?

Matt

 

[Dave Peterson]

I would guess that excel needs to know the printer so that it can figure out how
to display your workbook. And I bet the only setting you can change is your
default printer.

I'd change my default printer to a local printer (or even a local printer driver
if the physical printer doesn't exist).

 

[Mattosaur4]

Thanks Dave

Acrobat Distiller is my default (a virtual printer)

I've just tried changing it to an always online physical printer and
it was back to less than 10 seconds. I've set it back to Acrobat
Distiller and it's still less than 10 seconds. Perhaps Excel somehow
internally was thinking the Shared Printer was the default. Changing
the default & then back again seems to have straightened Excel out.


Thanks
Matt

 

[Dave Peterson]

Maybe...

But remember what you did--just in case you have to do it again.

 

[Mattosaur4]

Well it seems I must have connected to the shared printer manually
that day as it's back to 30-45 seconds to open again with my default
printer set Acrobat Distiller (for creating PDFs) or a local printer/

I will do some more searching see if anyone found a way to fix this
short of deleting the Shared Printer.

Matt