Office 2003: Painfully slow on W2KPro thru W2K Advanced Server. accck!

[Todd W. Roat]

Love Office 2003. Unfortunately, 4 out of the 6 people we have using
it
it have suffered maddening slow downs using office 2003 applications
on our current environment: nothing unusual, W2kPro and W2K Advanced
server. Starts fine for about a week then they all pull there hair
out and come beggin for me to make it stop ;^) Slow downs seem to
involve any interaction with server: File Opening, Saving, accessing,
Sending mail, etc. Have all available updates for O2003 and the
server. Uninstalling O2003 and putting them back on Office XP Pro
resolves all issues and they are smokin' again. Problem is that
in that small time they became smitten with O2003 features.

Any ideas? Im only a pseudo-IT guy (by default) so be gentle. Office
newsgroup sent me here.

Todd

 

[Rykel]

It may not be O23 persay (we've had it running on 2K and 2KAS no probs, and
if there was an inherent issue on a vanilla O/S then it'd have been flagged
by now) but a lot of XP/2000 bolt-ons have difficulty with O23. Acrobat is a
classic - unless you use v6 and patch it the PDFwriter plugin for OfficeXP
is carried across to O23 and really mangles it (crashes, hangs, humorous
printing, the works)

I'd be looking in eventlog for causes of death, and if nothing's showing
then open up task manager's processes page, do some Officey Things and watch
for processes taking silly amounts of memory. No promises but I'm half
expecting it to be a plugin or background app that's killing your 'puters.

~D~