Re: Word's gotten sluggish - Reinstall?

Hi DB,

... apologies

Hey, you're helping me! If any apologies are due, it's me who
should be apologizing for bothering everybody with my petty problems.

I only saw one thing that I felt I could easily do without: "update
automatic links at open". I unchecked it.

Maybe it's my imagination; maybe it's the fact that it's around
midnight; for whatever reason, new instances are opening
immediately!

I'm going to live with this for a while and see if stays "normal".
Regardless, I'm delighted. Thanks for your suggestion to look at
Tools|Options|General.

Best wishes,
Richard


On Apr 13, 7:33 pm, "db" <databaseben.discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
my apologies...

it is tools | options | general

near the bottom are buttons that
can disable some automation
using the internet.

i suggest that this may be of
some help, becuase if word is
sluggish it may be stuggling with
connecting....

"Richard" <RichardDummyMailbox58...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:1176506662.736234.55650@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for an additional idea.

> tools/preference/services

In Word 2003/SP2, the Tools menu doesn't have a Preference item. Word
Help didn't seem to offer anything relevant when searching for
"preference", "services" or both.

The only Internet-related item presented was Online Collaboration.

The only other Internet-related feature I'm aware of is File | Send,
which invokes Outlook. But I don't use this because I prefer to use
FireFox + WebMail

If you've got any further idea about this, I'd be glad to hear it.

On Apr 13, 1:37 pm, "db" <databaseben.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> you're welcome.
>
> one other thing is to
> see if word internet
> service is enabled.
>
> if so, then you might
> want to disable it via
> its tools/preference/services.
>
> - db
> "Richard" <RichardDummyMailbox58...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:1176485215.755732.57760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > if word works well in safemode, then i don't think word is the problem
>
> Thanks, good point. I'll try it over the weekend. If Word seems OK
> in that context, I'll start cutting out some of the things that run
> in background with the hope that I'll kill the culprit.
>
> On Apr 12, 8:29 pm, "db" <databaseben.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > if word works
> > well in safemode, then i
> > don't think word is the problem
> > and reinstalling it won't fix
> > the problems existing in
> > normal mode.
> >
> > - db
> > "Richard" <RichardDummyMailbox58...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:1176386663.283021.129400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm running Office 2003/SP2 over WinXP-Pro/SP2. My system is up-to-
> > date with Windows Update and is protected with AVG-Free and PrevX, as
> > well as Start Up Cop Pro.
> >
> > For a couple of weeks now, Office Word 2003 SP2 has gotten very
> > sluggish.
> >
> > 1. Opening a new word document from Windows Explorer's context menu:
> > a. absent an existing instance, takes:
> > i. A minute or two open a document window without a
> > blank new page
> > ii. Another half-minute or so to open the blank page
> > itself
> > b. otherwise opens instantly.
> > 2. Copying text to the clipboard:
> > a. from a Word document, takes a half-minute or so
> > b. from all other applications, takes no time
> >
> > Poor performance is experienced even when I have nothing running in
> > foreground but a couple of Word instances and a couple of Windows
> > Explorer instances.
> >
> > The only thing I can recall installing on my system recently is SWI-
> > Prolog (http://www.swi-prolog.org/).
> >
> > It looks to me like I should just reinstall Office 2003 and not waste
> > your time and mine. Agree?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Richard


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