Word 2007 slower since Vista install

[Ken Isaacson]

Vista Business SP1

Since installing Vista, I've noticed that Word 2007 seems a bit sluggish.
For example, typed letters and words seem to appear onscreen just a beat
behind when they're typed. Also, there's a considerable delay between
pressing Ctrl P and the appearance of the printer dialog.

I'm on a Dell Inspiron 640M, with an Intel Core 2 T5500 processor @ 1.66
GHz. There's 2GB of RAM.

Is the slowdown due to Vista?

Thanks.

Ken Isaacson
SILENT COUNSEL, a legal thriller
www.KenIsaacson.com

 

[Martin Descartes]

Vista Business SP1

Since installing Vista, I've noticed that Word 2007 seems a bit sluggish.
For example, typed letters and words seem to appear onscreen just a beat
behind when they're typed. Also, there's a considerable delay between
pressing Ctrl P and the appearance of the printer dialog.

I'm on a Dell Inspiron 640M, with an Intel Core 2 T5500 processor @ 1.66
GHz. There's 2GB of RAM.

Is the slowdown due to Vista?

Indirectly... there is probably something running in the background
that you'd rather have run at a different time of day or not running
at all.

If this is a very new installation, your indexing is probably running
- a process that might take quite some time if you don't leave your
computer running 24x7.

You might also have an A/V scan running at startup, etc.

Otherwise, your system is quite strong enough for Vista.

 

[Richard in AZ]

Vista Business SP1

Since installing Vista, I've noticed that Word 2007 seems a bit sluggish.
For example, typed letters and words seem to appear onscreen just a beat
behind when they're typed. Also, there's a considerable delay between
pressing Ctrl P and the appearance of the printer dialog.

I'm on a Dell Inspiron 640M, with an Intel Core 2 T5500 processor @ 1.66
GHz. There's 2GB of RAM.

Is the slowdown due to Vista?

Thanks.

Ken Isaacson
SILENT COUNSEL, a legal thriller
www.KenIsaacson.com

Assuming you had Windows XP on the computer prior to Vista, yes Vista will slow down a computer over XP.
Vista uses more computer recourses that does XP and on the same machine, XP operations will be faster.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Vista Business SP1

Since installing Vista, I've noticed that Word 2007 seems a bit sluggish.
For example, typed letters and words seem to appear onscreen just a beat
behind when they're typed. Also, there's a considerable delay between
pressing Ctrl P and the appearance of the printer dialog.

I'm on a Dell Inspiron 640M, with an Intel Core 2 T5500 processor @ 1.66
GHz. There's 2GB of RAM.

Is the slowdown due to Vista?

Probably not. Your computer should run Vista well.

The two most common reasons these days for things being sluggish are
malware infection and poor performance-robbing programs autostarting.
So please tell us

1. What anti-virus and anti-spyware programs you run.

2. What programs you have autostarting (from Start | Run, run MSConfig
and you can see the list of them there).

 

[John Barnes]

Also, check in Task Manager Performance (make sure both cores are shown) and
processes to see if you are having a core maxing out and what other tasks
you are running concurrently. I personally multi-task with many windows,
and had to upgrade the processor between XP and Vista.

 

[+Bob+]

Probably not. Your computer should run Vista well.

He needs another gb of memory and his CPU is at a minimal level for
Vista.

The two most common reasons these days for things being sluggish are
malware infection and poor performance-robbing programs autostarting.
So please tell us

Vista IS the performance robbing program.

1. What anti-virus and anti-spyware programs you run.

2. What programs you have autostarting (from Start | Run, run MSConfig
and you can see the list of them there).

While removing extraneous programs (and unneeded services, very
important) will speed things up, Vista will STILL be SLOWER than XP
running the same software on the same computer.

Best advice: reinstall XP.

 

[James Johnson]

Try installing service pack 1 (the one for office) on the office updates
page etc. That help me a lot.

Jim

 

[+Bob+]

If you uprgaded from XP to Vista, just reinstall Office It may fix this
problem

Reinstalling XP is a better solution.

 

[Tyro]

Vista needs a lot of power. I'm using 64 bit Vista Ultimate (with SP1) on an
HP 6730s, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.26 Mhz, with 4MB RAM, 250 GB HD. Vista runs
fine. The CTRL+P in Word 2007 (Office 2007 Ultimate with SP1) is
instantaneous. Type-ins are too. Were I to buy a new computer, I would not
hesitate to get multi-core processors with many GBs of Ram. 16GB to start
with. OS and Application software will continue to gobble up more and more
as hardware becomes cheaper.


Tyro

 

[+Bob+]

Nope. He has some other problem. I just demonstrated that Word 2007 runs
fine on Vista on a T41 laptop with 1 GB RAM and 1.6 GHz Pentium M.

I have to agree... take a look at actual memory usage on a Vista
machine. It's very difficult to push past 1gb of memory use. If you
switch user you can push it a little but in normal use it's difficult.

 

[Tyro]

I run Office 2007 Ultimate under Vista Ultimate on a Core 2 Duo P8400,
2.26GHz, 4GB ram. Everything runs just fine.

Tyro

 

[Tyro]

I'm running Vista Ultimate .My machine typically runs about 89 processes
taking about 2.4GB of my 4GB of ram. Then there are hardware memory
requirements on top of that. I've seen the total processes taking up to 3GB
of ram. Recently SearchIndexer was using almost 900MB. Windows Live Mail
takes about 325MB. Right now, Windows Live Mail, Firefox, Explorer, svchost
and searchindexer are taking almost 1GB total.

Tyro