Slow to open

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Here is a snip from an e-mail from one of my clients...

Our nurses have an excel folder that has one file for every resident. Each
file for each resident is updated one time a month. It is 728kb in size.
The files have quite a few check boxes. The files are on our network drive.
We have 2 computers that routinely access the files. Both of these
computers are having a difficult time accessing the files. It takes 3-4
minutes or more for the file to open. On all of the other computers the
file opens without difficulty. But other computers do not routinely access
the file.

and the 2 computers in question have been reloaded with xp pro and office
2000 and where working fine and just started this again lately...

Tia

 

[Dave Peterson]

You have responses at your first post.

Here is a snip from an e-mail from one of my clients...

Our nurses have an excel folder that has one file for every resident. Each
file for each resident is updated one time a month. It is 728kb in size.
The files have quite a few check boxes. The files are on our network drive.
We have 2 computers that routinely access the files. Both of these
computers are having a difficult time accessing the files. It takes 3-4
minutes or more for the file to open. On all of the other computers the
file opens without difficulty. But other computers do not routinely access
the file.

and the 2 computers in question have been reloaded with xp pro and office
2000 and where working fine and just started this again lately...

Tia

 

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My first post did not come through on my server that is why i posted this
new one

 

[Dave Peterson]

My message served a dual purpose--to inform you and to tell others that you have
a thread elsewhere.

 

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This worked but I had to go to google to find my other thread...

Thx
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Newsgroups: microsoft.public.excel
From: Dave Peterson <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:12:38 -0600
Local: Tues, Feb 13 2007 8:12 am
Subject: Re: Need some help
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First thing I'd try is to clean up the windows temp folder.

Close excel
windows start button|Run
%temp%
is a quick way to get there.


And here are a couple of sites that discuss slow performance. The first is
by
Charles Williams and the second by David McRitchie:


http://www.decisionmodels.com
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/slowresp.htm


If that doesn't help, then the next thing I'd try is to copy a few of those
files to the C: drive--just for testing. If those files open quicker, then
maybe it's a network problem and you should show the results to your IT
folks.




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