Vista & Office 12 = Severe Slowdown

[jonah]

Just added office 12 Beta to my Vista box, caused the PC to slow to an
absolute crawl. All runs OK but boot up was near 4 minutes and
explorer ect runs like treacle.

min specs for Office 12 are not that high, nowhere near the spec of
the Vista box its on.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/sysreq.mspx

Is it just me or has anybody else had problems with Office 12?

Jonah

 

[Conor]

Just added office 12 Beta to my Vista box, caused the PC to slow to an
absolute crawl. All runs OK but boot up was near 4 minutes and
explorer ect runs like treacle.

min specs for Office 12 are not that high, nowhere near the spec of
the Vista box its on.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/sysreq.mspx

Is it just me or has anybody else had problems with Office 12?

It's not that bloody auto defragmenter kicking in is it?

 

[jonah]

It's not that bloody auto defragmenter kicking in is it?

Oh FFS..............yeah thats exactly what it is.

If it ain't broke don't fix it strikes again eh!

Ta Conor

Jonah

 

[Guest]

None other than being beta software. The main elements of Office appear to
be very stable. Internet Explorer and Outlook hang occassionaly but like I
said, it is beta. Did you modify the install? If so, I would deinstall and
just click through the reinstall. Sorry I can't be of more help.

 

[Kerry Brown]

I'vw been testing Vista Beta 2, Office 2007 Beta 2, and Expressions Web
Design Beta on a minimal machine, P4 1.6 with 1 GB ram. It is slow but
usable and fairly stable. I did a default install of Office and EWD.

 

[jonah]

None other than being beta software. The main elements of Office appear to
be very stable. Internet Explorer and Outlook hang occassionaly but like I
said, it is beta. Did you modify the install? If so, I would deinstall and
just click through the reinstall. Sorry I can't be of more help.

No I have installed it twice now, it was only on the second install
(after a disaster with PartImage and a re-install of Vista) I
discovered the very slow running was caused by Office 12.

I don't use office here or at work anyway I use Open Office I just
wanted to have a look at the Beta Office 12.

I have stuck it on an XP test box where it runs just fine, quite nice,
but I am not about to start paying for Office I just need to check it
out for maintenance purposes.

Thanks Anyway Guys

Jonah

 

[jonah]

I'vw been testing Vista Beta 2, Office 2007 Beta 2, and Expressions Web
Design Beta on a minimal machine, P4 1.6 with 1 GB ram. It is slow but
usable and fairly stable. I did a default install of Office and EWD.

My current (Vista)test box is on a Sempron 2.6 but only 512 RAM, could
be an issue but Office 12 runs fine on an XP test box of the same
spec. I may up the RAM in the Vista box and have another go but I
don't use Office anyway so its purely academic.

Jonah

 

[Kerry Brown]

I had 512 Mb and upgraded to 1 GB. It made a significant a difference. I use
Outlook accessing an Exchange server and several pop accounts (running all
day), EWD, Word, and Excel throughout the day as needed. I also often have
Media Player playing mp3's from a network share. It is slower than than XP
would be on the same hardware but it is usable.

 

[Jonah]

I had 512 Mb and upgraded to 1 GB. It made a significant a difference. I use
Outlook accessing an Exchange server and several pop accounts (running all
day), EWD, Word, and Excel throughout the day as needed. I also often have
Media Player playing mp3's from a network share. It is slower than than XP
would be on the same hardware but it is usable.

OK Kerry I will upgrade it, got some RAM around somewhere. Actually I
really like Office 12, the layout and ribbon interface are a vast
improvement. I will try it with Vista again when I have upped the RAM
on this box.

Ta

Jonah

 

[Kerry Brown]

OK Kerry I will upgrade it, got some RAM around somewhere. Actually I
really like Office 12, the layout and ribbon interface are a vast
improvement. I will try it with Vista again when I have upped the RAM
on this box.

Ta

Jonah

Let us know what happens. I've got a few customers who are already asking
about Vista. Any info about running it on a typical system is useful.

 

[Jonah]

Let us know what happens. I've got a few customers who are already asking
about Vista. Any info about running it on a typical system is useful.

K mate, I will get round to it tomorrow.

Jonah

 

[jonah]

Let us know what happens. I've got a few customers who are already asking
about Vista. Any info about running it on a typical system is useful.

Kerry,

Upped RAM to 1Gb and tried again, huge improvement in speed and
useability, not that fast but acceptable for a beta. More importantly
the rest of the PC was operating at a reasonable speed and not bogging
down with 100% processor problems.

MSI K8MMV Mobo , AMD Sempron 2.6 Processor, 1Gb RAM, 80Gb Western
Digital SATA HDD, Audigy ZS Audio & Nvidia 5500 128Mb Video Card.

Not cutting edge of specs but good enough, seems RAM is critical with
Vista & Office 12 combined on this particular rig which I would add
is a little better specced than the average office PC I deal with most
of which use onboard video & sound and mostly have 256 RAM
occasionally 512.

Office 12 is great, I love it, going to cause problems with low spec
XP machines though I reckon. I will try it on a old 1.4 AMD XP machine
with 256 RAM tomorrow and see how that goes.

Jonah

 

[Kerry Brown]

Kerry,

Upped RAM to 1Gb and tried again, huge improvement in speed and
useability, not that fast but acceptable for a beta. More importantly
the rest of the PC was operating at a reasonable speed and not bogging
down with 100% processor problems.

MSI K8MMV Mobo , AMD Sempron 2.6 Processor, 1Gb RAM, 80Gb Western
Digital SATA HDD, Audigy ZS Audio & Nvidia 5500 128Mb Video Card.

Not cutting edge of specs but good enough, seems RAM is critical with
Vista & Office 12 combined on this particular rig which I would add
is a little better specced than the average office PC I deal with most
of which use onboard video & sound and mostly have 256 RAM
occasionally 512.

Office 12 is great, I love it, going to cause problems with low spec
XP machines though I reckon. I will try it on a old 1.4 AMD XP machine
with 256 RAM tomorrow and see how that goes.

Thanks for the update. It echoes my experience. 1 GB ram seems to be the
minimum for Office and Vista, at least with the Betas of both. I'm trying to
find the minmum usable configuration so when customers ask I can say get x,
y, and z and it'll work OK, add a, b, and c and it'll fly. Most of my
customers are at 512 MB ram with onboard graphics and sound. By the time
both Office and Vista are released I think upgrading to 1 GB should make
them usable. I agree that Office 12 is great. It did take me by surprise
when I first started using it. Where did all the menus go? Now that I'm used
to the new interface I like it.