Re: Word 2003 Slow Startup
- From: "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 22:32:32 -0000
After Word has started, does it behave normally? Do other documents open and close correctly? Is it just the initial opening that is slow? Although I won't rule out IE7, OneCare or Defender, I have not seen any problems with those used with Office 2003 (or O2007 either).
Try running Task Manager and monitor the processes whilst start Word and see if it gives any hint to any excessive activity during the delayed start.
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Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP
"David A. Lessnau" <DavidALessnau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:19F87D23-9403-4CBB-883D-F66C02563C76@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I don't understand. I assume Defender and OneCare both SCAN Word and its
documents. But, I don't think they ADD antivirus/antispyware scan
capabilities to it. However, since both Defender and OneCare are Microsoft
applications, I'd also assume they'd work properly with Word (and the problem
only happens with the startup of Word -- no other applications have this
problem). Plus, 20 seconds is an awfully long time to be checking a
new/empty document for spyware/viruses.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I think you've undoubtedly identified the culprits. Does either of the first
two apps add AV scanning to Word?
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"David A. Lessnau" <DavidALessnau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> Recently, Word 2003 has begun talking more time to start up. Even when
> opening the application without a document specified, it takes 20 > seconds
> after the application opens to when I can do something with the > document
(for
> instance, as soon as I see the blank document, I see the cursor on the
empty
> page blink two or three times, I click on the File menu item, the > blinking
> cursor goes away, and it takes 20 seconds before the menu dropdown > appears
> and the cursor starts blinking again). When I open Word by clicking on > a
> document, those 20 seconds are added to the normal time it takes to > load
the
> document. Opening an existing document within Word after the delay is
over
> adds no further delay. None of the other Office 2003 applications show
> anything like this. I've tried:
>
> - starting Word by running "winword /a"
> - renaming Normal.dot
> - there's nothing in my Startup path, so I couldn't move or rename > them
> - deleting the Data key in the registry
> - changing my default printer to another one that's definitely local > (the
> prior one was definitely local, too)
> - turning off Journaling in Outlook
> - repairing Word
>
> To the best of my knowledge, this started sometime after installing
Windows
> Defender, Microsoft OneCare, and IE7.
.
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