Obtaining the fastest Office performance

[Chicago484]

We have a Dell Poweredge 2950 running Server 2003 that was installed two
years ago. Our workstations were/are Latitude D630's that were maxed out on
drive speed, memory and near the highest processing speed. The are running
Vista and XP. Our Office 2003/2007 documents seem to open slow compared to
documents I have seen opened at other firms. We have some heavy duty Excel
models that should obviously open a bit slower, but even word documents tend
to take a few seconds to open. My wife's firm had old Dell workstations,
but their documents, even large spreadsheets seemed to open instantaneously?
Is there something I am missing on the back end? Someone please enlighten
me. What is the perfect IT senario for opening and running large excel
spreadsheets? Thank you.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

We have a Dell Poweredge 2950 running Server 2003 that was installed two
years ago. Our workstations were/are Latitude D630's that were maxed out on
drive speed, memory and near the highest processing speed.

Actual numbers would be more useful. What is the drive speed, how much memory
is installed, and so on?

The are running
Vista and XP. Our Office 2003/2007 documents seem to open slow compared to
documents I have seen opened at other firms.

Factors that might be in play:

- Different network speeds
- Opening across network vs locally from hard drive
- Different antivirus/firewall/security software
- Locally installed vs network installed printers

And if you open documents by doubleclicking their icons, the slowdown might be
due to Word/Excel starting up slowly as can happen when you've previously opened
documents from drives that are no longer present/available.



We have some heavy duty Excel