Latest Office 2003 updates causing severe slowness

[Chris]

It appears that the latest Office 2003 updates are
directly causing both Word, and Excel to open very
slowly. Word opens slowly no matter how I open it
(application, or directly on a .doc file). Excel opens
fast if I only open the application, but when I open
a.xls directly it takes 1-2 minutes to open the
spreadsheet.

Microsft may have a bug here, or something is being
executed in the backgroud as a new "feature" that causes
the application to respond slowly.

I am running MS XP SP1 (OS), Office 2003 Pro
(11.5604.5703), on a 2Ghz CPU with 1GB RAM.

 

[Echo S]

Are you using Norton AntiVirus?

 

[Bill Z.]

I know this sounds crazy, but set your date back to Jan 6th and it
will work fine. It seems to be a NAV error downloaded on the 7th.
Don't update NAV until they have a fix after you re-set the date or it
will come back.

Are you using Norton AntiVirus?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

It appears that the latest Office 2003 updates are
directly causing both Word, and Excel to open very
slowly. Word opens slowly no matter how I open it
(application, or directly on a .doc file). Excel opens
fast if I only open the application, but when I open
a.xls directly it takes 1-2 minutes to open the
spreadsheet.

Microsft may have a bug here, or something is being
executed in the backgroud as a new "feature" that causes
the application to respond slowly.

I am running MS XP SP1 (OS), Office 2003 Pro
(11.5604.5703), on a 2Ghz CPU with 1GB RAM.

 

[Bill Z.]

I know this sounds crazy, but set your date back to Jan 6th and it
will work fine. It seems to be a NAV error downloaded on the 7th.
Don't update NAV until they have a fix after you re-set the date or it
will come back.

Are you using Norton AntiVirus?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

It appears that the latest Office 2003 updates are
directly causing both Word, and Excel to open very
slowly. Word opens slowly no matter how I open it
(application, or directly on a .doc file). Excel opens
fast if I only open the application, but when I open
a.xls directly it takes 1-2 minutes to open the
spreadsheet.

Microsft may have a bug here, or something is being
executed in the backgroud as a new "feature" that causes
the application to respond slowly.

I am running MS XP SP1 (OS), Office 2003 Pro
(11.5604.5703), on a 2Ghz CPU with 1GB RAM.