Echo S - thanks -- and now I have a bit of new information: the slow
behavior occurs when I invoke Word or Excel directly from the desktop,
or
from the Recent Items list, or from within a folder. However....if I
invoke
Word or Excel from the Start Menu program list it is very fast 1-2
seconds. What would make such a difference? Hopefully not a red
herring, but worthy of further research?
Thanks for the followup, John. I am out of ideas, and I think you might
be
onto something with regard to the tablet. I think there are some tablet
groups -- you might want to ask in one of them and see if anyone has
any
tablet-specific suggestions for you.
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Echo S -- I ran the Office diagnostics you suggested, but that has not
helped. As to Norton -- by coincidence, my subscription to Norton
A/V
had run out this week, and I decided to switch to avast to save a few
$,
since I had read good reviews of the free avast A/V. I suppose it
still
may be possible that avast is an impediment. However, since I observe
that opening a 2nd word document while the first one is still open
goes
in 1-2 seconds, I am thinking that A/V scanning is not what is slowing
it
down. At the moment I am still suspecting the presence of my new
graphics tablet (even unplugged from the USB port) is causing the slow
down, and will need more sleuthing. Thanks for your advice.
Have you run Office diagnostics? Open Word, hit the Office button |
Word
Options | Resources | Run Diagnostics. Hopefully that will take care
of
it.
(Sorry, I didn't mean for you to completely dump Norton!)
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Thanks. I had that advice given from someone earlier and have now
removed Norton A/V from my computer in favor of the avast A/V
program.
The slow behavior of Word and Excel continues even without Norton.
Also -- more about my use of the word 'slow' -- from the time of
double
click or Open command, there is a 5-6 second dead time wait where
nothing
is happening, and then the Word program window begins to appear and
fills
in the next 3-4 seconds. Does that make it more clear?
In addition to turning off the option to scan Word documents, I'd
make
sure the Norton Office plug-in is completely disabled. Here's some
info
on doing that:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329820/en-us
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I am running Office Home & Student 2007 on Vista. When I first
started
using this system, Word or Excel would open very quickly, approx.
3-4
seconds. Lately it is taking 8-12 seconds to open.
Items of interest:
- once Word/Excel is open, invoking subsequent documents is only
1-2
seconds.
- I have 2GB RAM
- I use Norton Antivirus, but have the option to scan Word
documents
turned off.
- as far as I know, prefetching is in force.
- I do use indexing, but I always have.
- I am not on a network.
- One thing that has changed for me lately is the addition of a
graphics tablet; however, Word/Excel is slow even with the USB
tablet
unplugged.
Would appreciate any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this problem.
Thanks.