http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21051902 en Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:53:05 EDT Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:53:05 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21054156 Owlbet : Do you have your antivirus configured to scan Office documents when they are opened? That can sometimes increase the open time of your documents. See if you can remove the configuration if you do have your AV configured to scan Office documents upon opening them.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21054156 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:05:52 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21052029 camster39 : Sorry about that - I forgot to mention it's Office 2003 and it was a brand new install. XP Pro was also a clean install. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21052029 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:29:32 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21051961 auggy : What version of Office is installed? Was the Office installation a "clean install" or "upgrade"?

There is some suggestions in the following previous thread involving Office 2007 installed as an upgrade in XP:

»Office 2007 on XP needs optimized]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21051961 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:14:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21051902 camster39 : Perhaps this is an Excel or a Word post but...

when I open an existing XLS or DOC directly from the document it takes approximately 10-15 seconds to open the document. Even if I have excel open and seperately browse to another XLS file using explorer I have the same problem.

If I go into Excel or Word directly and choose File - Open it works fine and only takes a second or two.

Using XP Pro]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21051902 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:04:18 EDT