Speeding up Office applications

[Sam]

Office applications open much slower the first time after a reboot. About 40
seconds compared to just a few seconds for additional starts. I am assuming
the first time is building some initial configuration files, temp files, etc.
Is there some way to open applications fast this first time? Note: Window
profiles are being deleted each time because these are public machines. But
possibly I could drop some file or two in the default user profile? Note: it
does not seem to matter which app is opened first. If I open word first,
excel will open fast and visa versa. Just the first Office app is slow after
a reboot.

 

[Sam]

BTW, I am using Office 2007 if it makes a difference.

 

[Someone]

office 2007 loads slower than all previous versions of office.

This is the "bloat" all microsoft products suffer from.. you should see
vista!

The reason why the first time it loads slowly and after that it loads fast
is that the first time some files are cached in the ram,
so windows draws from the ram the next times.

Vista uses "superfetch" to battle its own bloated software, which is a kind
of "smart" cache, this function that is built into vista
"pre-loads" programs you use often so they will load faster. If you do have
vista, get more ram....

I don’t know what version of windows you are using, XP or Vista and how much
ram you have...

IF you have 2 gb or more ram and you are using XP, this program might make
things load faster the first time
since it reproduces what vista has with superfetch: www.eboostr.com

 

[Ken]

h have a similar problem. I'm using Office 2007 Small Biz on a 2.53 Mhz, 4G
Ram laptop with XP. I have Outlook pinned to my start menu and it opens
relatively fast. However, once I click on an email to open/read, the pgm
hangs up and I have to close out and then I receive a "pgm not responding".
I end now, then restart Outlook and it works fine as long as I don't shut
down the computer.

I'd appreciate any suggestions.

Ken

 

[Someone]

I am writing a blog post (tutorial) about that.. please check this thread
tomorrow to find your answer

thanks

 

[Ken]

I haven't seen a post yet; is it somewhere else?

Ken

 

[Someone]

I am very sorry for the delay.. it was almost ready but then I got swarmed
by too much work

here it is:

http://computerboom.blogspot.com/2009/01/solution-outlook-2007-is-very-slow-what.html

 

[Ken]

Thanks very much for the link. I posted my reply to your site, but in a
nutshell, I did everything the site recommended and still have the same
problem of Outlook "locking up" numerous times.

Any other ideas?

Ken

 

[CBoom]

Please download, install and run the free malware bytes program from here
(it works by scanning for spyware)

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Please tell me how many things it finds and if it rectifies your problem

 

[Ken]

I appreciate the recommendations. I downloaded the software, ran the test
and had 115 errors; corrected the 20 free ones and restarted the computer.
I've worked several emails and so far, Outlook has not locked up.

I use Tune up Utilities 2009 at least daily, sometimes more often and it
always finds problems and corrects them. Therefore, I'd rather not pay for
another pgm.

Ken

 

[CBoom]

Sorry, malwarebytes is new to my arsenal of antispyware. Why do you say that
it had free cleaning but some were not free...
I thought the program was free for manual use, and only if you wanted real
time protection did you need to pay.


As for tune up utilities, that has a a registry cleanup option

****RULE about all registry cleaning****

DON’T DO IT!!!!! (unless you know exactly what its doing)

It just messes up things

 

[Ken]

When I run the pgm, it shows how many errors are found and ask if you want to
correct them. It corrects 20 errors for free, then tells says you must buy
the pgm to fix the rest of the errors.

As I previously mentioned, I use the one click Tune up daily and the rest of
the pgms' capabilities as required. So i'll still with Tune up and not pay
for another application.

Thanks for the feedback and taking the time to post.

 

[Roger]

Unlike Sam I do not runoutlook. I have two versions of slowdown.
System is 1.8 GHZ, 2GB ram WinXP
Office "Slow" which some call Office 2007 goes through configuration on
random basis from once a week to once every few weeks.
Once it is running I find Excel can take 1:45 to open a file that opens in
about 3 sec in Office 2003. SOmetimes even changing a value in a single cell
can take 47 sec in Excel 2007.
This is beyond bloat. I could do better on a 500MB Pentium III system
running Office 97.