Opening Word, Excel… (XP)

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Hi all,
I’m wondering if there is anyone else out there who has experienced this problem…..Over the past several months, whenever I try to open 1 of the office products, such as word or excel, it has been taking longer and longer to open. I built my PC about a year ago and put a LOT of money into it, with all top of the line hardware (so I know that is not a factor). I have all the necessary security software and there are no viruses, trojan horses, spyware, etc on the machine. Is there a setting somewhere in Office that is causing this?? Any help is appreciated.

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Two things come to mind immediately.
1. Make sure that in Outlook, under Tools/Options/Preferences tab/Journal Options…, that you have them set NOT to record.
2. Also, have you done a scandisk & defrag lately?

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Well, I don’t use Outlook on my PC, so that wouldn’t apply. I defrag daily with Diskkeeper so that is out as well. But…I do use Symantec, so I’ll check for the office plugin-

Thanks for the tips.

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Even if you don’t use Outlook, journaling might be on (I think it is on by default), and Outlook happens to be the place to turn it off.

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I don’t have Outlook even installed on the PC…..but, on the other hand, I disabled the Office Plug-in as you suggested and it worked like a charm. Thanks for the tip!!!

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I’m glad it worked. As long as you keep NAV’s AutoProtect on, Office documents will still be protected against viruses.

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Even if you don’t use Outlook, journaling might be on (I think it is on by default), and Outlook happens to be the place to turn it off.

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Well, I don’t use Outlook on my PC, so that wouldn’t apply. I defrag daily with Diskkeeper so that is out as well. But…I do use Symantec, so I’ll check for the office plugin-

Thanks for the tips.

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Two things come to mind immediately.
1. Make sure that in Outlook, under Tools/Options/Preferences tab/Journal Options…, that you have them set NOT to record.
2. Also, have you done a scandisk & defrag lately?

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Also, if you use Norton / Symantec Anti Virus, make sure that the Office Plugin is not activated. In the Norton Anti Virus main window, click Options, then Miscellaneous to check this.

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Also, if you use Norton / Symantec Anti Virus, make sure that the Office Plugin is not activated. In the Norton Anti Virus main window, click Options, then Miscellaneous to check this.

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I used the suggestion about norton anti-virus and it solved the problem this was referring to – last week I got an auto update fromNorton and this morning had to reapply the fix discussed in this thread.

Tom

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