Solution to Word being slow to open documents (!)
- From: "ng598" <none123@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:45:48 -0000
I have finally found a solution to a problem which affects Word 97 running
on Windows 2000 Professional. It may also affect lots of other things.
Basically some people find that opening documents in Word (particularly over
a network) can take minutes, if the document is large. There are many
documented causes for this, but none of the solutions ever fixed the problem
for me. But please read on. The solution is quite amazing.
The problem can occur when you double-click a document in Windows Explorer
to open it, and is particularly bad with large documents (hundreds of
pages).
If the Folder Options setting in Windows Explorer is set to "Show hidden
files and folders" the document can take a huge amount of time to open
(several minutes), and the CPU usage while opening is low (15% to 20%). If
the folder options setting is changed to "Do not show hidden files and
folders" the document loads about 10 times faster, and the CPU usage is much
higher while it is loading. I don't know why this happens, but the solution
is to set your folder options to "Do not show hidden files and folders".
Opening the document through the File/Open menu in Word will be fast if the
document is not selected in Explorer, but just having the document selected
in Explorer will cause the open to be slow (with Show hidden files and
folders) even when opening through Word's File/Open menu.
If anyone else knows why this occurs I would love to know. I have attempted
to report this problem/solution to Microsoft, but I'm not sure if I've been
successful and I'm not prepared to spend a long time doing this.
Please bear in mind that there are other causes of Word being slow to open
documents, so this may not fix the problem for you.
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