SOOOO SLOW STARTUP

[George Brock]

I realize that this is an old topic, but does anyone have any ideas how to
get Entourage, all Office apps to startup a little quicker?
My MacBook Pro is a 2.4 GHz, 200GB Hard Drive, 3 GB RAM model, fairly new.
Thanks in advance,
George

 

[aRKay]

I realize that this is an old topic, but does anyone have any ideas how to
get Entourage, all Office apps to startup a little quicker?
My MacBook Pro is a 2.4 GHz, 200GB Hard Drive, 3 GB RAM model, fairly new.
Thanks in advance,
George

No.... all Office 2008 apps seem to be slow dogs to load but are okay
after they start. This has been discussed since Office 2008 was
released and we have just learned to live with it. Office 2004 was
pretty snappy but 2008 takes longer to boot.

 

[Ed Kimball]

I realize that this is an old topic, but does anyone have any ideas how to
get Entourage, all Office apps to startup a little quicker?
My MacBook Pro is a 2.4 GHz, 200GB Hard Drive, 3 GB RAM model, fairly new.
Thanks in advance,
George

Which version of Office are you using? The 2008 version should start much
faster than the 2004 version, since the 2008 version is designed for
Intel-based architecture.

 

[George Brock]

I am using Office 2008 on a new MacBook Pro. All of the Office apps are so
slow to startup it drives me nuts.

 

[Barry Wainwright]

I am using Office 2008 on a new MacBook Pro. All of the Office apps are so
slow to startup it drives me nuts.

i typically get 3-4 seconds to start any of the apps on a 2.4Ghz MacBook
Pro (with 4gb RAM). if you are seeing a lot longer times that this, then
the first place to start looking is at your fonts. During start up the
apps build a cache of all the fonts on the system. if you have several
hundred fonts, or if some of them are corrupt this can cause a slow
start up.

 

[Diane Ross]

I realize that this is an old topic, but does anyone have any ideas how to
get Entourage, all Office apps to startup a little quicker?

A good place to start when you need answers to crashes, performance and
conflicts:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/crashes.html>

From the list, select "Performance Issues/memory management"

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/crashes.html#_9_performance>

There are 10 options listed:

I suspect that this option might help you, if not, check out the other
options.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/crashes.html#crash46>

Hope this helps and that you have learned a way to quickly find answers.