Office 2008 starts very slow

[Diane Ross]

Drag your Microsoft User Data folder to Shared. Create a new User in System
Preferences. Drag the Microsoft User Data folder from Shared (it copies it
so makes testing safe) and open Entourage. Is there a noticeable
improvement? Remember to drag your MUD folder back.

Other things to check is pageins/outs. Have you added a lot of files making
your hd low on space?

 

[John McGhie]

You haven't told us your OS and CPU versions. Office 2008 is a bit of a
slug on a PPC in OS 10.5. It's much quicker in OS 10.4.

John,

I rebuilt the Entourage database and the size went from 1.8 GB down to
1.2 GB. I then used the Disk Utility to repair permission and Xupport
to run the Weekly maintenance.

After all of the above, the restart time is better but not as fast as I
recall with Office 2004. The enemy of good (Office 2004) is better
(Office 2008) with regards to launch time. Office 2004 was faster
but 2008 has some nice improvements. My assessment is the slower
launch time is the price of progress. At least it does not hang or do
other tacky stuff. I just have to get used to the slow startup.

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[aRKay]

Sorry.... I am using a 24-inch (Intel powered) iMac with Mac OSX 10.5.3
with 2 GB of memory. Office 2008 is much slower than Office 2004 but
I am willing to live with it for the other benefits. I gave up the
training wheels and trashed Office 2004.

The enemy of good is better!

 

[aRKay]

Drag your Microsoft User Data folder to Shared. Create a new User in System
Preferences. Drag the Microsoft User Data folder from Shared (it copies it
so makes testing safe) and open Entourage. Is there a noticeable
improvement? Remember to drag your MUD folder back.

I am willing to live with what I have so don't really want to try the
above. I have leaned that Office 2008 is not as fast as Office 2004.

Other things to check is pageins/outs. Have you added a lot of files making
your hd low on space?

I have a 300 GB drive but only using 58 GB so I have plenty of HD spae

 

[Gnuus]

I deleted Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/ all the Default ACL files but one, and the problem was solved!?