Excel 2002, Very slow opening files, HELP

2teky · 07-29-2009, 02:26 PM

Hello All, Hopefully someone on here can help me out with an issue I have been troubleshooting for quite some time.

I have a computer that is running Windows XP SP2 and Office XP Standard (Word,Excel,PowerPoint 2002) that is taking about 2-5 minutes to open Excel files using the Open or File Open within Excel. The file located on the root of the C:\ Drive and is only 48K in size. It appears to open just fine if I navigate to the file and double click it but will take a few minutes to open if I try and use the Excel Open File menu or CTRL+O.

I have uninstalled/reinstalled Office
Completely reimaged/reformatted the hard drive.
This does not occur on any other computers and I'm at a total loss as to what could possibly be happening since I've already completely re-imaged the hard disk.(Figured that would have taken care of any software issues)

Hopefully someone will be able to chime in with some useful info, Thanks everyone!

Mastrotech · 09-15-2009, 04:00 PM

I am having the same problem with Excel and Word as well. Does anyone have any suggestions?

mullivar · 09-16-2009, 07:31 PM

I'm curious if you open excel in safe mode
start-run... type excel /safe push enter
does it still take 2-3 mintues to open.

DoubleA · 09-16-2009, 09:33 PM

I had this problem too. What was causing it for me was the default printer was set to a network printer. I have also seen this happen due to printer that was no longer available too. Check your printers first and set a local printer to the default and give that a try.

07-29-2009, 02:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
2teky Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA Posts: 73 OS: XP SP2	Excel 2002, Very slow opening files, HELP Hello All, Hopefully someone on here can help me out with an issue I have been troubleshooting for quite some time. I have a computer that is running Windows XP SP2 and Office XP Standard (Word,Excel,PowerPoint 2002) that is taking about 2-5 minutes to open Excel files using the Open or File Open within Excel. The file located on the root of the C:\ Drive and is only 48K in size. It appears to open just fine if I navigate to the file and double click it but will take a few minutes to open if I try and use the Excel Open File menu or CTRL+O. I have uninstalled/reinstalled Office Completely reimaged/reformatted the hard drive. This does not occur on any other computers and I'm at a total loss as to what could possibly be happening since I've already completely re-imaged the hard disk.(Figured that would have taken care of any software issues) Hopefully someone will be able to chime in with some useful info, Thanks everyone!

09-15-2009, 04:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
Mastrotech Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1 OS: xp	Re: Excel 2002, Very slow opening files, HELP I am having the same problem with Excel and Word as well. Does anyone have any suggestions?

09-16-2009, 07:31 PM	#3 (permalink)
mullivar Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 81 OS: xp	Re: Excel 2002, Very slow opening files, HELP I'm curious if you open excel in safe mode start-run... type excel /safe push enter does it still take 2-3 mintues to open.

09-16-2009, 09:33 PM	#4 (permalink)
DoubleA Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 10 OS: XP Pro SP3	Re: Excel 2002, Very slow opening files, HELP I had this problem too. What was causing it for me was the default printer was set to a network printer. I have also seen this happen due to printer that was no longer available too. Check your printers first and set a local printer to the default and give that a try.