Slow startup times

[Daiya Mitchell]

Good to know, thanks for the post.

 

[John McGhie]

Excellent! Many thanks for your confirmation.

For those who are following along, this was a two-part fix. Microsoft did
their bit in Office 2008 SP1, Apple has apparently done their half in OS X
update 10.5.3.

Many thanks for your report!

10.5.3 solves it! Although the initial startup time is still a lil bit worse
(Macbook 1,1/1,83GHz/2GB) Word runs fast.
No more waiting. :smile:

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[CyberTaz]

This is the second such report I've seen since the release of 10.5.3 - if it
keeps up I may just have to move up from 10.5.0... And maybe even put the
ol' G5 on Leopard

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

 

[Charles Hedrick]

With the latest updates and 10.5.3, I have disabled WYSIWYG font display, deleted all the files specified, and rebooted.

Word now starts in 15 sec best case. Best case is right after starting and exiting. In more normal cases it's like 30 sec. It rebuilds fonts even when no fonts have changed, not all the time, but times when it shouldn't.

15-30 sec would be fine for Photoshop, but it's scandalous for a word processor. However it's much better than several minutes, which is what I had before.

Currently I use Textedit to display Word documents where possible, using Word only when I absolutely have to have compatibility with a PC user.

This needs to get fixed.

 

[Charles Hedrick]

15-30 sec would be fine for Photoshop, but it's scandalous for a word processor. However it's much better than several minutes, which is what I had before.

Actually, Photoshop starts much faster than Word.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Charles:

Yes, you would expect that. PhotoShop is a much simpler application.

15 seconds is a bout right: if you want it faster, trim those fonts back.
Each font is using memory, which is wasted if the font is not in use.

The font cache must be rebuilt each time the working set changes. If no
fonts have been enabled or disabled since Word last quit, you will get a
much faster start-up.

Hope this helps

Actually, Photoshop starts much faster than Word.

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[MC]

15-30 sec would be fine for Photoshop, but it's scandalous for a word
processor. However it's much better than several minutes, which is what I had
before.

"Scandalous"? Oh, please. So what if it takes a long time to load? Fire
it up and go and make a coffee -- and elevate your blood pressure over
something worth getting exercised about!