HD busy with Office tasks

[GabeTX]

I am running Office Professional 2007 on Vista Ultimate, 4GB RAM and plenty
of hard disk with no fragmentation.

Once Vista finished starting up (7-9 minutes), any of the Office
applications load very fast. The problem is that I use Office rather
infrequently (nevertheless I still need it). At Vista startup the hard disk
is extremely busy for several minutes (and thus making everything else slow).
I noticed through Resource Monitor that the hard disk is busy attending
several Office files, both reading and writing millions of bytes.

My guess is that Office is configured to do a lot of cache stuff at startup
time. Or maybe I am wrong. Nevertheless, the question is: Is it possible to
prevent Office to load stuff or whatever, automatically? I would like Office
to do its stuff ONLY AT MY COMMAND, not at startup time. Because, there are
many instances when I do not need any of the Office applications.

My Vista is otherwise very well tuned up and I have very few software
applications, only what I really need.

I would appreciate any orientation.

Gabe.

 

[DL]

If your Vista takes that long to load up I'd suggest something is not quite
right with your sys, and it cannot be 'well tuned up'
Office does not load unless its configured to load an application at startup
What Office files is resource monitor referenceing?

 

[GabeTX]

Thanks DL.

Here is a sample of the files that are reported as reading the HD for a long
time:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\1033\MSOINTL.DLL
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\MSO.DLL
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\WWLIB.DLL
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\NLSMODELS0009.dll

My goal is to prevent Office to do anything at startup time. Any help will
be appreciated.

Thanks,

Gabe.

 

[DL]

I'm not entirely sure, most of the files listed are library dll's so
possibly indexing is going on.

But then I go back to my original point; you say very few programs
installed, if that is the case, and Vista takes that long to load up,
something else is going on your PC

 

[GabeTX]

Hi DL,

It is solved now. You are essentially right. It was not Office, but Vista.
The situation is this:

Indexing was disabled and Vista was fully optimized with MS OneCare and with
Advanced SystemCare Pro (IOBit). Nevertheless, the hard disk was slowing
down everything (this is a laptop with a single, relatively slow, hard disk).

So, what was the problem and solution? I found a helpful article (link
below). In my case (not pretending it will be the same solution for
everybody) it works since I do not need Vista to do all that safety and
backup stuff everytime I start my laptop.

From 7-9 minutes, my laptop now leaves the HD idle in about 1:50 min. Cool.
I rescheduled all the safety stuff to be run once a week, instead of at
every start up. Logs are not collected every hour anymore. I never need
SuperFetch, etc., etc.

Thanks for your insight.

Here is the article: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=256421

Regards,

gabe.

 

[DL]

Personally I wouldn't recommend any of these 'tune up' apps, not least there
are better free malware/spyware scanning apps, and I doubt any tune up
processes will actually enhance anything
MS One Care is as I understand it being dropped by MS, shortly, though they
continue to accept renewal fees, and if its being dropped does that also
mean new virus definitions will be dropped?