Saving excelfiles takes long

[Axel Schwenke]

Hi there!

There is a WinXP-Notebook with Office2000-sr1 installed.
Now it takes very long to save XL-files.
Even if I start a new sheet it takes about 5seks. to save. The filesize is
only 14kB.
A file with some graphics and about 2.2MB takes more than 40seks.
This happens while saving to our LAN and to the local harddrive.

The notebook is a P4 with 2GHz and 256MB RAM.
Only Outlook2000 is opened at the same time.

The "Journal" is deactivated on OL2k.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

Axel




PS: Please excuse that multipost (also in m.p.excel.misc). But this matter
is quite urgent.

 

[Norman Harker]

Hi Axel!

Possible cause:

Too much accumulated junk in:

C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\local settings\temp directory


Close Windows and re-open to ensure that any partly installed programs
have finished with the contents of the temp file.



Find and Select C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\local settings\temp



Select all files and delete.



If you feel that’s extreme, just copy them to a new location before
deleting but remember that you can delete them later.



Try Excel again.



Also see:



Opening/Saving Bottlenecks (Charles Williams)
http://www.decisionmodels.com/optspeedd.htm#OpSave
Troubleshoot Startup Problems(MS):
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280504
Some tips on overcoming slow response (David McRitchie)
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/slowresp.htm


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