Excel Launches every slow

[Amanda]

It takes about 30-45 secounds for excel to launch. Is there anyway to get it
to launch faster?

 

[ShaneDevenshire]

Hi,

Depends on what's causing that. Vista slows things down, Excel 2007 is
slower to launch than 2003. If you are launching it by double-click a file
in the Windows Explorer, it is having to open the file also, that slows
things down. Too many programs open will slow it down. A slow of too many
anti virus programs may slow it down. Too little free hard disk space, will
slow things down. A highly fragmented hard disk will slow things down. You
can add more RAM, you can clean up your hard disk and defragment it, you can
get a faster hard drive.

And I'm sure there are many more reasons.

However, here is the ultimate question, if you open Excel once a day why
would you care if it takes 1 minute to open? On the other hand if you are
opening it frequently, then why not leave it open and just minimize it.

 

[Amanda]

Shane-
Thank you for the suggestions. Hopefully you can help me a little bit more.
1. My users are not running Vista, they are running XP
2. It does not matter how you open Excel...launching a document or opening
excel it still takes at least a minute. Actually, one of my users just said
that he can no longer launch an excel document without his computer freezing.

3. I have tried opening excel with no other programs open after I
rebooted...still the same.
4. There is plenty of hard disk space for writing and reading
5. There is 2Gb of Ram in each machine that is experience issues.
6. I defrag the hard drives...nothing changed

I completely agree with you about opening excel and leaving it open for the
day. However, well my users seem to be very particular. If it was up to me
excel would be open when they got in so I don't have to hear about this
problem...lol. If you have any more suggestions, it would be greatly
appreciated.

 

[Simon Murphy]

Amanda
Have they got a bunch of flaky add-ins slowing things down, or stuff in
\xlstart?

Ask them to open a command prompt and type "excel.exe /s" (no quotes)
this opens Excel in safe mode (It will have no add-ins running) should
be near instant.

If so start picking through the add-ins they have installed. Google
desktop search will slow things down for example.


Cheers
Simon
Blog: www.smurfonspreadsheets.net

 

[Amanda]

Thanks Simon,

That helped. They don't have any add-ins but it got me thinking. The
printer that was set as the default was not responding to excel so it was
freezing up when it loaded. The printer is an HP9000. I changed the default
printer and excel launched just fine.

Thank you again.