Opening Office ( Word, Excel, etc) Documents are very slow by double-clicking

If I double-click on an Office file, it takes about 30+ sec to finally
open.

If I open a blank office file, go to File -> Open and point it to the
same file, it opens super fast.

Any ideas?

I deleted all network printers, disabled all startup services, I tried
renaming all "Normal.dot" files to "Normal.old", I tried deleting all
"Normal.dot" files, network is running great.

I don't get it. Any ideas would be helpful.

thanks!

Same problem here. Seems there's a problem with office that develops
over time. When I open the same file with a different logon, same
computer, same files, no problem the files open fine. To get around
this, I created a new profile but, on a domain, it's not the best
thing to do. Any idea of a user cache that needs to be cleaned out?

I have pretty much the same problem. I've tried reinstalling MS Office, no
good. If I delete the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0 key and restart
Word it initializes, then I close Word and double click on a Word file in
Explorer, it's very fast. But if I then logoff, log back on and try again,
the problem is still there. Something happens to the above registry key on
logging off. Similarly if I create a new user, it's fine on first login but
on subsequent logins the problem occurs again. I'm using XP SP2, MSO-SP3, all
latest Win & Office updates. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi,

I have the same problem, but in my case the file do open very slowly
also on another user on my system.

I have deleted all my registries and temp-files.
I have tried it on a new user login. I have no NAV.
But the problem is still there.

I can open Excel very fast. I can open all Excel files without problem,
but one file takes a long time ( 1 minute?! or more)... It doesn't
matter, whether I open the file with doubleclick or with the Excel menu
bar (File - Open).

I've had a similar problem a long time ago, but there the problem was
the outlook.pst file. Please don't ask me what is the connection between
outlook and excel, because i don't know. But I have created a new
outlook.pst file and replaced it with my old one. Then I haven't any
problems any more.

But now I can't solve this problem with a new outlook.pst.

Have somebody solved the problem ?!
I require my excel file really urgent.

I had the same problem
In my case using task manager I see that the spooler uses the 99% of cpu
duringthe opening process.
Upgrading printer drivers solve it.

So try to change the default printer to check if it's so.

Bye
Carletto

Hi,

big thanks for your prompt response.

Sadly, your tip wasn't successful :/ .Although my spooler uses no
efficiency, I have deleted the printer.

But my problem remains :/

Another suggestions?

I have found out the cause of my problem, but i don't know, how to
solve it :/

I have disconnected my internet-connection and tried to open the file
again and it worked !?

But this file doesn't have any internet-connection ?!
So why depend it on the network connection?!

I don't understand it

I have noticed thai in Excel formulas SUM.IF and COUNT.IF with automatic
calculation are slowing veeeery much. With Word I haven't noticed similar.

[inguyen]

I had the same issue and it drove me crazy. Try this, go to command prompt, type in netstat -a, look for any connections that are listed that you cannot ping, when you find one, open up the registry and do a find for that connection and delete all the instances of that connection (if you are no longer using it). This worked for me.

[avi.2006]

Opening Office ( Word, Excel, etc) Documents are very slow by double-clicking and at the time of saving it takes a long time to save(more than a min). All excel files are not mor than 1MB.

I have a similar problem on my computer as well. Does anyone have a
solution for this? My excel sheets have no formulas or calculations. My
computer now take more than one minute to load a small excel file. This
problem is new and I only start to experience it three weeks ago. I don't
recall installing any new software.

when i double click on a file in "My Documents" (for example), the file takes
an entire minute to load, but i have found that opening word or excel first
then clicking the "open" button and browsing to the file opens it instantly.

This is really annoying because i prefer to just click on a document i see
instead of having to browse to it

I have 2007 office installed on 3 computers- two desktops and a laptop.
only my laptop does this not the desktops. i also installed office service
pack 1- no help there

Help would be much appreciated

Try this
1.) Open My Computer.
2.) Go to Tools -> Folder Options, and click on File Types.
3.) Find the extension of the file in question (XLS, DOC, etc.)
4.) Highlight the extension, and click \"Advanced.\"
5.) Highlight the \"Open\" Action, and click \"Edit\”
6.) Click into the \"Application used...\" field, and scroll to the end
of
the command.
7.) Put a space at the end, and type in \"%1\" (With the quotes.)
8.) Uncheck \"Use DDE.\"
9.) Click \"OK.\"
:: ::
Open Tools, Options, and check "Ignore other applications that use DDE"

Try this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/207574

Cheers.

rcleary,
I did the steps you listed and it has created other, bigger problems
for me. I can't edit the "%1" back out of the command line, it keeps
reappearing no matter what I do to it. Do you know how to reverse these
steps??

[Salmanus]

Hi all.. I was having the same problem. fist i used combofix.. it worked. but then after live update the problem came again.. but now by doing below.. its fixed now..

Doing below WHAT???