[mso] Re: MS Office Very Slow

  • From: Robert Carneal <bookofficeworker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:21:30 -0600

Anne- Are you able to rollback? If you can, why not roll back past one 
patch/fix at a time until it speeds up? If rolling past a patch/fix causes 
the computer to speed up, I would say you have proven it if you didn't do 
something else about that time and forgot it.

Robert


At 08:20 AM 12/15/2003, you wrote:
>Paul and Tina
>
>Thanks for your suggestions.  Always good to get somebody else's ideas as
>to possible origins.
>
>RAM isn't a problem - I've got 480 MB and I'm on broadband so the system
>resources issue is not (an issue that is!).  I'm also not running Norton
>as Tina hinted might be the cause - though her comments re the screen
>mis-scrolling were interesting as my Outlook folder list is really weird
>these days - great grey not-quite-a-box hovers over part of the list
>whenever I tru to scroll down.
>
>I remain *convinced* it's a MS fix that's the culprit.  Still hunting it
>down.
>
>Anne
>:)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Paul Winkfield
>Sent: 12 December 2003 20:00
>To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [mso] Re: MS Office Very Slow
>
>
>Hi Guys:
>
>Do you'll have enough ram? I'm running an old computer, Celeron
>667mhz/512mb ram (the max the motherboard can handle), at idle my system
>with XP Pro uses 140mb ram, when I launch Word 2003 it goes up to 144mb
>cpu spike at 6% then down to 1-2%, on a cable modem, if I lockout modem
>with ZoneAlarm, ram use goes to139mb.
>
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