Very slow loading of drawings in Visio 2003

[Arnold]

Hi,
I am having trouble with loading drawings in Visio 2003 on my laptop (Win
XP). They mostly take up two to five minutes to load for a <1Mb drawing.
I can have the drawing load quicker if I temporally shut down the McAfee
scanner, or if I do NOT use Windows offline folders. Especially the mappings
to the stencils, included in this drawing that are also on offline folders
seem to take a lot of time.


The problem is that I DO need the virus scanner, and I DO need offline
folders, to make sure my files are constantly in sync with my colleagues
that also use Visio 2003 on a laptop in the same projects.


I use a Dell Inspiron 5150 with P4/3GHz/768Mb on XP Pro.
I tried Visiclean and a lot of other tools, but they do not seem to improve
the loading.

Does anyone have a suggestion for speeding up the loading of those files?


Thanks,

Arnold

 

[gte]

If you are able to disable virus scanning on network drives, try that to see
if performance is implroved. It helped in my case.

Regards
Gert