Vista & Office 12 = Severe Slowdown

Just added office 12 Beta to my Vista box, caused the PC to slow to an
absolute crawl. All runs OK but boot up was near 4 minutes and
explorer ect runs like treacle.

min specs for Office 12 are not that high, nowhere near the spec of
the Vista box its on.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...ta/sysreq.mspx

Is it just me or has anybody else had problems with Office 12?

Jonah

In article <>, jonah says...
>
> Just added office 12 Beta to my Vista box, caused the PC to slow to an
> absolute crawl. All runs OK but boot up was near 4 minutes and
> explorer ect runs like treacle.
>
> min specs for Office 12 are not that high, nowhere near the spec of
> the Vista box its on.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...ta/sysreq.mspx
>
> Is it just me or has anybody else had problems with Office 12?
>
It's not that bloody auto defragmenter kicking in is it?


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Conor

Who the **** said I was trying to endear myself to anyone?

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:14:09 +0100, Conor <>
wrote:

>In article <>, jonah says...
>>
>> Just added office 12 Beta to my Vista box, caused the PC to slow to an
>> absolute crawl. All runs OK but boot up was near 4 minutes and
>> explorer ect runs like treacle.
>>
>> min specs for Office 12 are not that high, nowhere near the spec of
>> the Vista box its on.
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...ta/sysreq.mspx
>>
>> Is it just me or has anybody else had problems with Office 12?
>>
>It's not that bloody auto defragmenter kicking in is it?

Oh FFS..............yeah thats exactly what it is.

If it ain't broke don't fix it strikes again eh!

Ta Conor

Jonah

None other than being beta software. The main elements of Office appear to
be very stable. Internet Explorer and Outlook hang occassionaly but like I
said, it is beta. Did you modify the install? If so, I would deinstall and
just click through the reinstall. Sorry I can't be of more help.

"jonah" wrote:

>
> Just added office 12 Beta to my Vista box, caused the PC to slow to an
> absolute crawl. All runs OK but boot up was near 4 minutes and
> explorer ect runs like treacle.
>
> min specs for Office 12 are not that high, nowhere near the spec of
> the Vista box its on.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...ta/sysreq.mspx
>
> Is it just me or has anybody else had problems with Office 12?
>
> Jonah
>

I'vw been testing Vista Beta 2, Office 2007 Beta 2, and Expressions Web
Design Beta on a minimal machine, P4 1.6 with 1 GB ram. It is slow but
usable and fairly stable. I did a default install of Office and EWD.

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Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

jonah wrote:
> Just added office 12 Beta to my Vista box, caused the PC to slow to an
> absolute crawl. All runs OK but boot up was near 4 minutes and
> explorer ect runs like treacle.
>
> min specs for Office 12 are not that high, nowhere near the spec of
> the Vista box its on.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...ta/sysreq.mspx
>
> Is it just me or has anybody else had problems with Office 12?
>
> Jonah

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:58:01 -0700, Barry Snyder
<> wrote:

>None other than being beta software. The main elements of Office appear to
>be very stable. Internet Explorer and Outlook hang occassionaly but like I
>said, it is beta. Did you modify the install? If so, I would deinstall and
>just click through the reinstall. Sorry I can't be of more help.
>
>"jonah" wrote:
>
>>
>> Just added office 12 Beta to my Vista box, caused the PC to slow to an
>> absolute crawl. All runs OK but boot up was near 4 minutes and
>> explorer ect runs like treacle.
>>
>> min specs for Office 12 are not that high, nowhere near the spec of
>> the Vista box its on.
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...ta/sysreq.mspx
>>
>> Is it just me or has anybody else had problems with Office 12?
>>
>> Jonah
>>
No I have installed it twice now, it was only on the second install
(after a disaster with PartImage and a re-install of Vista) I
discovered the very slow running was caused by Office 12.

I don't use office here or at work anyway I use Open Office I just
wanted to have a look at the Beta Office 12.

I have stuck it on an XP test box where it runs just fine, quite nice,
but I am not about to start paying for Office I just need to check it
out for maintenance purposes.

Thanks Anyway Guys

Jonah

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:52:01 -0700, "Kerry Brown"
<*a*m> wrote:

>I'vw been testing Vista Beta 2, Office 2007 Beta 2, and Expressions Web
>Design Beta on a minimal machine, P4 1.6 with 1 GB ram. It is slow but
>usable and fairly stable. I did a default install of Office and EWD.

My current (Vista)test box is on a Sempron 2.6 but only 512 RAM, could
be an issue but Office 12 runs fine on an XP test box of the same
spec. I may up the RAM in the Vista box and have another go but I
don't use Office anyway so its purely academic.

Jonah

I had 512 Mb and upgraded to 1 GB. It made a significant a difference. I use
Outlook accessing an Exchange server and several pop accounts (running all
day), EWD, Word, and Excel throughout the day as needed. I also often have
Media Player playing mp3's from a network share. It is slower than than XP
would be on the same hardware but it is usable.

--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

jonah wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:52:01 -0700, "Kerry Brown"
> <*a*m> wrote:
>
>> I'vw been testing Vista Beta 2, Office 2007 Beta 2, and Expressions
>> Web Design Beta on a minimal machine, P4 1.6 with 1 GB ram. It is
>> slow but usable and fairly stable. I did a default install of Office
>> and EWD.
>
> My current (Vista)test box is on a Sempron 2.6 but only 512 RAM, could
> be an issue but Office 12 runs fine on an XP test box of the same
> spec. I may up the RAM in the Vista box and have another go but I
> don't use Office anyway so its purely academic.
>
> Jonah

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:33:16 -0700, "Kerry Brown"
<*a*m> wrote:

>I had 512 Mb and upgraded to 1 GB. It made a significant a difference. I use
>Outlook accessing an Exchange server and several pop accounts (running all
>day), EWD, Word, and Excel throughout the day as needed. I also often have
>Media Player playing mp3's from a network share. It is slower than than XP
>would be on the same hardware but it is usable.

OK Kerry I will upgrade it, got some RAM around somewhere. Actually I
really like Office 12, the layout and ribbon interface are a vast
improvement. I will try it with Vista again when I have upped the RAM
on this box.

Ta

Jonah

Jonah wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:33:16 -0700, "Kerry Brown"
> <*a*m> wrote:
>
>> I had 512 Mb and upgraded to 1 GB. It made a significant a
>> difference. I use Outlook accessing an Exchange server and several
>> pop accounts (running all day), EWD, Word, and Excel throughout the
>> day as needed. I also often have Media Player playing mp3's from a
>> network share. It is slower than than XP would be on the same
>> hardware but it is usable.
>
> OK Kerry I will upgrade it, got some RAM around somewhere. Actually I
> really like Office 12, the layout and ribbon interface are a vast
> improvement. I will try it with Vista again when I have upped the RAM
> on this box.
>
> Ta
>
> Jonah

Let us know what happens. I've got a few customers who are already asking
about Vista. Any info about running it on a typical system is useful.

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Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User