Word and Excel files opening extremely slow

but I can if I open from within Word.

Sarah


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I am running Vista on my Laptop and am having a similar problem. The
problem started when I had to reinstall Vista. Word and Excel worked
fine prior to the reinstallation. Neither Word not Excel will open in
less than 2 minutes at this time.

If I attempt to open a file from the directory, I will wait for several
minutes with before seeing a message that says Word was shut down
improperly last time and that I should consider starting in safe mode.
The program will run just fine whether I chose safe mode or not.

Word and Excel both take a long time to open if I open them first and
then open a file from within the program. Only this time, the status bar
at the bottom of the screen says that Word is checking for viruses.
Obviously a virus check of a single file should not require more than a
minute.

I was running Office 2003, but I uninstalled it thinking that Office
2007 might work better. Unfortunately, Office does the same darn thing.
Bummer.

Any suggestions? I am getting tired of using OpenOffice.org.


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For one thing your Anti-virus is causing you grief. Open it's settings
panel and DIS-able any option that is named similar to Office Plugin.
That feature is useless and causes plenty of grief. After you get that
problem out of the way, UNinstall Office, reboot, and then install
without that adding.

xrotaryguy wrote:

I am running Vista on my Laptop and am having a similar problem. The
problem started when I had to reinstall Vista. Word and Excel worked
fine prior to the reinstallation. Neither Word not Excel will open in
less than 2 minutes at this time.

If I attempt to open a file from the directory, I will wait for several
minutes with before seeing a message that says Word was shut down
improperly last time and that I should consider starting in safe mode.
The program will run just fine whether I chose safe mode or not.

Word and Excel both take a long time to open if I open them first and
then open a file from within the program. Only this time, the status bar
at the bottom of the screen says that Word is checking for viruses.
Obviously a virus check of a single file should not require more than a
minute.

I was running Office 2003, but I uninstalled it thinking that Office
2007 might work better. Unfortunately, Office does the same darn thing.
Bummer.

Any suggestions? I am getting tired of using OpenOffice.org.

Thanks Bob I. I'll give it a try.


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Hello --

My slow-opening problem began when I downloaded and installed XP's
Service Pack 3, although a friend has had this problem for a very long
time. I have made no changes to my firewall or virus software. I did try
the fix in Control Panel, disabling DDE, and now cannot double click on
any Word document to open, nor can I open a Word attachment to email.
But Word docs DO open that are hyperlinks in IE. The only other change
to my computer is adding PC Tuneup, which recently did a registry
cleanup.

I don't really think this is a virus program or firewall issue.


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Sorry to hear that you did a registry cleanup. Perhaps if you are lucky,
you may uninstall and then reinstall Office to correct the issue now.

margaretb888s wrote:

Hello --

My slow-opening problem began when I downloaded and installed XP's
Service Pack 3, although a friend has had this problem for a very long
time. I have made no changes to my firewall or virus software. I did try
the fix in Control Panel, disabling DDE, and now cannot double click on
any Word document to open, nor can I open a Word attachment to email.
But Word docs DO open that are hyperlinks in IE. The only other change
to my computer is adding PC Tuneup, which recently did a registry
cleanup.

I don't really think this is a virus program or firewall issue.

Not sure if you resolved this but I had the same issue.

Make sure you did not put a space before the "%1" and that the "Use DDE" is
still unchecked.

Hope this helps

"SarahB" wrote:


but I can if I open from within Word.

Sarah


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