Word 2000 pauses every 27 seconds

[Guest]

Every 27 seconds, my Word 2000 freezes, and my cursor turns into an hourglass
for 3 seconds. During this time I cannot type. Extremely annoying. I've
turned off all auto-save functions, and grammer and spelling check. Even
when idle, same thing happens like clockwork every 27 seconds. Weird thing
is, when I save manually, it only takes a tenth of a second, so I don't think
it's saving the document. It's doing some other function that takes 3-4
seconds. It only happens in Word, no other program.
HELP!!!!
Thanks,
-Thom

 

[Jezebel]

Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and select the Task Manager. Display the Process tab.
Watch the CPU column to see which processes are active -- you're looking for
the one that kicks in every 27 seconds.

There are some cludgy internet apps (like skype) that can misbehave like
this.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I've pictured him sitting there with a stop watch timing this darned thing.

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[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Well, it's very useful information: it means it's not the "Usual Suspects"
such as AutoSave.

I am wondering whether the user has set "Make local copies of offline files"
in Tools>Options? If he has, that will do it: it polls the file server
every 30 seconds to see if anything has changed...

Cheers

I've pictured him sitting there with a stop watch timing this darned thing.

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[Beth Melton]

Interesting...I wasn't aware of this behavior. I'd love to learn more
about what you have experienced

I've always been under the impression that when a file is opened on a
removable drive and if the drive is 3 megabytes (MB) or less, Word
copies the file to the local Temp folder to use as the 'working
reference' and all temp files Word may create in the source folder are
also placed in the Temp folder. Then when the file is closed the copy
on the removable drive (original) is also updated and when the file is
close, the original is updated and the temp files are deleted.

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[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Beth:

I'm trying to get a handle on it myself. It appears that at "some" point,
and in "some" situations, setting "Make local copies" can keep polling the
network and slowing everything down.

Like you, I thought its only effect was to implement persistent file locking
on a laptop (and to make a copy on the hard disk if the storage media was a
floppy).

Anyone else got any other details?

Ideally, anyone know what ELSE would be causing a high-priority system
interrupt every 27 seconds? That's what the original user really wants to
know

Cheers

Interesting...I wasn't aware of this behavior. I'd love to learn more
about what you have experienced

I've always been under the impression that when a file is opened on a
removable drive and if the drive is 3 megabytes (MB) or less, Word
copies the file to the local Temp folder to use as the 'working
reference' and all temp files Word may create in the source folder are
also placed in the Temp folder. Then when the file is closed the copy
on the removable drive (original) is also updated and when the file is
close, the original is updated and the temp files are deleted.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

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Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Beth Melton]

Try starting Word using the /a switch and see if the issue continues
to occur. Go to Start/Run and Run:

winword /a

Note the space before the forward slash.

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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Microsoft Office MVP

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[Graham Mayor]

It means something is interfering with Word see
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm and if you are
running Norton AV, uncheck its Office Plug-in option.

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