So have you used Word 2007 under Vista?

J

Joseph Geretz

I have a document which contains the following line of text:

sdasfdsadfad

Office 2003 / Windows XP
P4 2.66 Ghz / 2GB RAM
sub-second to open the document

Word 2007 / Windows Vista
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 2.0Ghz
4 seconds to open the document (in either native (.docx) or compatibile
(doc) format.

Now what's that about?

- Joe Geretz -
 
M

markbyrn

I have Word 2007 under Vista and it didn't have any problem with your
string of characters. Perhaps you should inspect the document for
hidden text - select then 'Prepare' option, than 'inspect document'
 
J

Joseph Geretz

Hi Mark,

So this opens virtually instantaneously for you?

(BTW, there's nothing special about this document, I see the same poor
performance on all documents so I just opened a new document, typed a few
characters and saved it.)

Thanks,

- Joseph Geretz -
 
A

AJR

First - Word, Excel and publisher 2007 work great here on both Vista and
XP - as have Office XP and Office 2003.

Second - if an application is "flawed" it would be so for any installation!

Third - look for contributing factors on your "setup".
 
I

Innes

Joseph Geretz said:
I have a document which contains the following line of text:

sdasfdsadfad

Office 2003 / Windows XP
P4 2.66 Ghz / 2GB RAM
sub-second to open the document

Word 2007 / Windows Vista
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 2.0Ghz
4 seconds to open the document (in either native (.docx) or compatibile
(doc) format.

Now what's that about?

- Joe Geretz -
Click to expand...
No problems here either, just a thought, does your virus scanner runs "on
demand" meaning that when ever you open a saved document it requests a virus
scan, this happened to me while using Panda Platinum edition.

Innes
 
J

Jezebel

Vista has a lot of problems with *other* (ie non-MS) software, so your
problem might be not Word itself but interference from other apps you have
running. Not for nothing has Vista been described as the longest suicide
note in history.
 
S

Scott

I have a document which contains the following line of text:

sdasfdsadfad

Office 2003 / Windows XP
P4 2.66 Ghz / 2GB RAM
sub-second to open the document

Word 2007 / Windows Vista
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 2.0Ghz
4 seconds to open the document (in either native (.docx) or compatibile
(doc) format.

Now what's that about?
Click to expand...

Defragged your Vista Hard Drive lately?
--
Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
 
J

Joseph Geretz

Defragged your Vista Hard Drive lately?

I just got this box from Dell on Tuesday (three days ago).

- Joseph Geretz -
 
S

Scott

I just got this box from Dell on Tuesday (three days ago).
Click to expand...

But I didn't ask when you got it. I asked when you defragged it last?
:0)
--
Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
 
J

Joseph Geretz

A lot of folks have reported Word working 'fine' on their workstations
however 'fine' is subjective. If waiting 4 - 5 seconds to open a document
is acceptable then Word can be said to be working 'fine' when performing as
such. If on the other hand, sub second response time is expected, then a 4 -
5 second lag is unacceptble.

So I'd very much appreciate some more definitive feedback from those
individuals who have reported satisfactions with performance of Word 2007
under Windows Vista. What does 'fine' mean to you? sub second document open
time, or 4 - 5 seconds to open a document?

Thanks,

- Joseph Geretz -
 
R

Rick

Joseph,
What are you using to determine opening a document? Are you including the
time it takes for Windows to load Word? If I am opening a document from
scratch, I can see it taken a few seconds to load, execute Word and then
open the file. The counts below are just the time it takes to open the
document with Word already started.

I created your test document. It opens very quickly. In under a second. I
used one of my older 2003 documents (compatibility mode) that was a one page
document that was full with bulleted items. It also opens up in less than a
second. I'm also running McAfee 8.5e for anti-virus and checking
everything. The installation of Office was 2007 Pro with everything
installed as default.

This version of Vista is running under VMWare on an XP system. The XP
system has 2GB of memory and the virtual Vista machine has been allocated
1GB. This is running on a 2.8GHz Xeon and Seagate 10K RPM ST373207LC SCSI
disk.

I would have expected this to be very slow in a virtual machine, or I should
say I expect it to be faster when I finally bite the bullet and upgrade. I
hope this helps.
- Rick -
 
R

R. McCarty

Sony Vaio Notebook, 1.5 Gigabytes, Core Duo 1.23 Seconds
Virtual PC 2007 1.0 Gigabytes allocated 2.18 Seconds
Window XP SP2 2.0 Gigabytes DDR2 2.05 Seconds
*From invoking to fully initialized - Tested on Fresh boot to eliminate
caching effects
 
P

Perry

Do you have an AV program active?

It's not likely a Word 2007/Vista performance.
My systems opens a similar document in 378 ms.

System software:
Vista/Office Ultimate
VS2005/VSTO2005 SE
My system rated by Vista Upgrade Advisor: 3.6
Hardware:
Intel (R) Pentium M 1.73 GHz
RAM: 2MB

I've similated yr document situation and coded a routine to open similar
document but then 10 times
and have the code print out the performance.
Less than half a second out of ten times. I've also done it a hunder times
and the result stayed below
half a second to open a similar document.
Again, as stated, if y're thinking Word 2007 is the killer app, y're looking
in the wrong direction.

1: 344
2: 359
3: 406
4: 359
5: 359
6: 406
7: 344
8: 422
9: 390
10: 391
--------------------
Average opening: 378 ms


Dim lStart As Long
Dim doc As Document
Dim dOpen As Double
Dim iMax As Integer
iMax = 10
Dim avg As Double
For x = 1 To iMax
lStart = GetTickCount
Set doc = Documents.Open(Environ("UserProfile") & "\desktop\asd.docx")
d = (GetTickCount - lStart)
dOpen = dOpen + d
Debug.Print x & ": " & d
doc.Close 0
Next
Debug.Print "--------------------"
dResult = dOpen / CLng(iMax)
Debug.Print "Average opening: " & dResult & " ms"

--
Krgrds,
Perry

System:
Vista/Office Ultimate
VS2005/VSTO2005 SE
 
J

Joseph Geretz

Thanks for the metrics, guys.

OK, it sounds like Vista / Office 2003 should be able to deliver the
response time we need. Our software is a document management software, we
leverage Word (up to now 2000, XP and 2003) in order to display Word
documents. We need sub-second response time when moving through documents,
otherwise our users are going to howl.

I'm happy to hear that my initial experience with Word 2007 is atypical.
I'll look into this further and if I find out what's causing the slowdown,
I'll post back.

Thanks,

- Joe Geretz -
 

Ask a Question

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

You'll need to choose a username for the site, which only take a couple of moments. After that, you can post your question and our members will help you out.

Ask a Question

Similar Threads

Clipboard copy speed 0
Word 2007 Slow When Switching to Word 7
Why my Access 2007's response is so slow? 2
Failure to Install Office Ultimate 2007 16
Word 2007 Slow When Switching to Word or Opening a Saved File 18
Word 2007 won't open files on double-click in Win 7 in VMWare 1
FP2003 and Vista Update? 4
Microsoft Word 2007 1

Top