Re: Office 2008 starts very slow
- From: aRKay <arkayREMOVE@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:46:46 -0500
Sorry.... I am using a 24-inch (Intel powered) iMac with Mac OSX 10.5.3
with 2 GB of memory. Office 2008 is much slower than Office 2004 but
I am willing to live with it for the other benefits. I gave up the
training wheels and trashed Office 2004.
The enemy of good is better!
In article <C47C5930.1612D%john@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You haven't told us your OS and CPU versions. Office 2008 is a bit of a.
slug on a PPC in OS 10.5. It's much quicker in OS 10.4.
On 15/06/08 11:46 PM, in article
arkayREMOVE-19A292.08460615062008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "aRKay"
<arkayREMOVE@xxxxxxx> wrote:
John,
I rebuilt the Entourage database and the size went from 1.8 GB down to
1.2 GB. I then used the Disk Utility to repair permission and Xupport
to run the Weekly maintenance.
After all of the above, the restart time is better but not as fast as I
recall with Office 2004. The enemy of good (Office 2004) is better
(Office 2008) with regards to launch time. Office 2004 was faster
but 2008 has some nice improvements. My assessment is the slower
launch time is the price of progress. At least it does not hang or do
other tacky stuff. I just have to get used to the slow startup.
In article <C47AAA7B.1608D%john@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If it bogs down AFTER it was once working properly (i.e. Not as a result
of
a change or update, but just slows down over time...) then I would first
suspect the Database.
Do a full rebuild of the database and see if it springs back to life.
If your database is over 2GB, consider creating a fresh new blank identity
and copying into it only the items you absolutely KNOW that you will
"need".
Creating and managing identities is described in the Entourage Help.
You can always open the old identity to get back the stuff from long ago.
Size and complexity are the enemies of speed :-)
Hope this helps
On 15/06/08 9:52 AM, in article
arkayREMOVE-9EAABA.19225214062008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "aRKay"
<arkayREMOVE@xxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <C475BD78.1F071%diane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Diane Ross <diane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Cheryl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
Bob,
I tried your suggestion and am very pleased to say that it resolved my
slow/hanging startups for the Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2008 apps.
Thanks a
million!
Which specific thing helped. Was it running Repair Permissions or Repair
Disk?
I would like to know what helped? For some reason Entourage 2008 12.1
has slowed down and takes forever to startup. It used to be snappy but
seems to have bogged down and loads in slow motion.
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