Re: Any Office programs REALLY Slow opening files

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Hi,

You're welcome. Also BTW, just for completeness, although I haven't
tried it, someone on the Win2K NG responded by suggesting that I could
have done:

net stop spooler
net start spooler

instead of rebooting the PC after deleting the document from the queue.
I think that there's also an spooler item in Services that I could have
stopped/started.

Jim


Echo S wrote:
>
> Thanks for the followup, Jim.
>
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> Echo [MS PPT MVP]
> http://www.echosvoice.com
>
> "ohaya" <ohaya@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:42AA5AB0.A7DD9AEF@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> > ohaya wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just started having a problem today where whenever I use any of the MS
> > > Office programs (Word, Excel, etc.), when I try to do any of file
> > > dialogs (e.g., Open, Save As), it really takes a long time for the list
> > > of files to appear.
>
> and
>
> > In case anyone runs across this problem, I was able to solve it.
> >
> > I noticed that a process named "spoolsv.exe" was taking up ~100% CPU.
> > After doing some research, I checked, and found a document stuck in my
> > printer queue (double-click on the printer to see this). I deleted the
> > document from the queue and rebooted, and now everything is back to
> > normal again.
> >
> > Jim
.

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