File Save As too slow

[Ashkaan]

Hi,
when I try to save a file (or sometimes to open a file) in
Outlook, Word, Excel, ..., in an XP system, the dialog box
that appears that allows you to select your drive and/or
folder takes a loooong time to respond and poulate the
drop down box.
Is there any way to make this process faster by tweaking
some settings?

Thanks.

 

[dev]

Ashkaan said:

When I try to save a file (or sometimes to open a file) in
Outlook, Word, Excel, ..., in an XP system, the dialog box
that appears that allows you to select your drive and/or
folder takes a loooong time to respond and poulate the
drop down box.
Is there any way to make this process faster by tweaking
some settings?

Some things to try...
If you have a USB card reader or scanner, don't disconnect it or turn off
power.
Leave a camera card in the reader at all times.

 

[cquirke (MVP Win9x)]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:29:10 -0500, Rick Ackerman

Quick response after missing the start of the thread; here are two
things that specifically make MS Office "open/save" dialogs slow...

1) Journalling

Enabled by duhfault in MS Office 97, as controlled in Outlook's
Options. If you upgraded from O97 to newer versions, that old
duhfault setting may have been preserved and carried forwards.

2) Open Office file associations

On a Win98SE PC running Open Office and then with MS Office 2000 (or
maybe MS Office 97?) installed on it, I found these dialogs to be very
slow, until I'd cleared away Open Office's file associations that were
still linked into MS Office's file types.

Both of these problems are because they cause the system to faff
around with the *contents* of files when they are *listed*. This
really dumb idea (hello, unchecked buffer risks) scales dismally when
users have more than a trivial number of files.

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