Excel 97 Creating HUGE temp files

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We've recently upgraded to Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition.
After doing so, we've noticed that Excel 97 immediately started
behaving odd. We're running Excel 97 on Windows 98 and Windows XP Pro
PCs. The problem is that Excel has started creating very large, what
I believe are, temp files when you save an Excel file. They become so
large that users think the program has stopped responding, and indeed
sometimes the save operation fails because Excel is churning away
trying to create these huge 'temp' files. These temp files range from
a minum of 100 Megs all the way up to 2 Gigs.

Like I said earlier, this started immediately after upgrading from SBS
4.5 (on NT) to SBS 2003. Any ideas on what could be causing this?

Thanks,

Tim
 
What are the names of these temp files?

Without a clue, my suggestion is to disable your antivirus software
(temporarily) to see if the trouble goes away--maybe it's not excel.
 

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