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Excel 2010 takes an extremely long time to open attachments
We have recently upgraded to Exchange 2010 and office 2010 statndard on all of our workstations (XP Pro sp3). I have 1 user that is experiencing extremely long wait times (10 minutes) to open any attachments that are Word or Excel files. If they save the attachment to their desktop, it opens normally. Likewise I had the user forward the attachments to me, they opened normally directly from Outlook. I have tried every reasonalble solution I can find on Google. Changed the DDE settings, etc. I have also tried un-installing Office & re-installing it. No change. I am stumped. I may be forced to re-image the PC and start from scratch. I would prefer a less drastic solution.
Thanks in advance for any ideas you may have.
Thanks in advance for any ideas you may have.
What anti virus is on the slow computer? You might try to disable the Anti Virus and then try opening the document.
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We use Trend Micro Office Scan. I did try that without success. Thanks.
What does it do if you open the attachment from outlook web app?
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I haven't tried that. I called the user. She is off until Tuesday. I will try that then. Thanks again.
open explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types
got to the .XLS + XLSX?? extension click Advanced select the bold action -> Edit and
in the box under "Application used..." go to the end and add the "%1" after
the /e
so for the .XLSX Extensions Open command this becomes "<Installation
Folder>\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE"
When it's the new action it should be "<Installation Folder>\EXCEL.EXE /e
"%1" /n
got to the .XLS + XLSX?? extension click Advanced select the bold action -> Edit and
in the box under "Application used..." go to the end and add the "%1" after
the /e
so for the .XLSX Extensions Open command this becomes "<Installation
Folder>\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE"
When it's the new action it should be "<Installation Folder>\EXCEL.EXE /e
"%1" /n
How much Ram is on the Machine?
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1 GB. I have other machines with identical specs or lower that are not experiencing this issue.
have you tried to find out what is taking the computer so long, if it is stalling due to 100% CPU usage or large memory usage or large file IO usage ?
The easiest way to investigate this is to open the processes tab on the task manager. Using the menu you can select the visible columns, make sure that the I/O : read bytes and I/O : written bytes columns are selected.
at least you know now what is causing the large delay.
look at the process that consumes the cpu cycles, is it outlook / word / excel / virus scanner or other ? any macro's that are automatically running ?
also, investigate the computer's system log files to indicate if any relevant log entries have been made.
The easiest way to investigate this is to open the processes tab on the task manager. Using the menu you can select the visible columns, make sure that the I/O : read bytes and I/O : written bytes columns are selected.
at least you know now what is causing the large delay.
look at the process that consumes the cpu cycles, is it outlook / word / excel / virus scanner or other ? any macro's that are automatically running ?
also, investigate the computer's system log files to indicate if any relevant log entries have been made.
Have you tried going through and disabling the Add-in in outlook one at a time - Restart Outlook after each one and see what happens. If nothing changes - enable the last one you disabled and try disabling the next one.
Lat timne I had this problem it had something to do with a stupid I-Tunes add-in
Lat timne I had this problem it had something to do with a stupid I-Tunes add-in
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OK. I have had an opportunity to work on this issue again. The attachments open properly for Outlook web access. Forror changes caused Excel to stop functioning. I had to use system restore to undo those changes. I tried disabling all the outlook add-ins. No change. The cpu is not showing any high usage during the opening process.
you may want to have a look through the add or remove programs and see if anything stands out as something that shouldn't be there.
The next thing to do would be get the machine that is having the problem and a similar machine with the same amount of memory in it
Restart them both - let everything load then go to task manager and see what the ram usage is on each - It could be someting as simple as the video card on the ones that are working have their own memory and this one uses shared memory - 1 Gig today especially with Office 2007 or 2010 is not considered very much - 2 or 3 would be much better if they intend to have more than 1 program running at a time
The next thing to do would be get the machine that is having the problem and a similar machine with the same amount of memory in it
Restart them both - let everything load then go to task manager and see what the ram usage is on each - It could be someting as simple as the video card on the ones that are working have their own memory and this one uses shared memory - 1 Gig today especially with Office 2007 or 2010 is not considered very much - 2 or 3 would be much better if they intend to have more than 1 program running at a time
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