MS Office Professional 2007 - Very Slow

[Malc City WA]

There are no indications that any response has been posted relating to the
slowness of MS Office Professional 2007 - Very Slow
I have 1.3gb RAM and this is very slow compared to MS Office Professional 2003
M

 

[CyberTaz]

Perhaps if you post to a Windows newsgroup rather than one for Macintosh
you'd get the response you seek

Start here:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx

OTOH, if you *are* running 2007 on a Mac in VPC or on an Intel Mac in
Parallels Desktop or Boot Camp it would be useful to know which
configuration applies.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Make sure you apply the latest updates: there is an issue with Office 2007
running on Windows XP, and a patch that fixes it.

The issue is that Office 2007 relies heavily on Windows Desktop Search for
its functionality. Windows Desktop Search in turn expects to run quietly in
the background at the lowest possible priority, so it doesn't get in
anyone's way.

Unfortunately, Windows XP does not sport Thread Prioritisation it's a new
feature in Vista). Application priorities, yes, but not thread priorities.
This can slow the system to a crawl if you have Outlook running on Windows
XP.

If you disable Windows Desktop Search, speed will improve dramatically, but
you lose the new smart functions. Much better to apply the patch

Hope this helps

There are no indications that any response has been posted relating to the
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I have 1.3gb RAM and this is very slow compared to MS Office Professional 2003
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