process.start - slow startup times

[gazza67]

Hi Everyone,

I am writing a small .net forms app that rquires a word document to be
opened. I use the command
process.start(filePath).

The command does just as it should and opens the document with word.
HOWEVER the problem is that it takes forever - well about 20 seconds
anyway for the document to open.

If I go into the file browser and double click on the file it opens in
under 2 seconds.

Also I found that if my program instead of opening a .doc file instead
opens a .txt file then it works quickly i.e. it opens up the document
under word pad in less than 2 seconds.

If anyone has any suggestions they would be most appreciated.

Cheers
Gary

 

[Dave Sexton]

Hi Gary,

Out of curiosity, does the performance improve if you explicitly specify the
path to the Word program and submit the filePath as an argument?