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OK people here’s a request for any experience you may have.
I used to have MS Office 2003 Pro installed on my PC. Recently (about 2 months ago) I removed it fully and replaced it with MS Office 2007 Ultimate.
This is the top version of their latest Office offering and includes Word; Excel; Outlook (with BCM); Powerpoint; Publisher; Access; Groove; OneNote; and InfoPath
Since installation I have noticed that my PC has slowed down considerably and the Office 2007 programmes take noticeably longer to start up compared with Office 2003 and are a bit ”notchy” (i.e. they tend to hang if I am multi-tasking before catching up again).
I am running a 3 GHz Pentium 4 dual channel processor (on XP Pro) and 1 1/2 Gigs of RAM (2 x 512 MB and 2 x 256MB PC 3200 DDR SDRAM sticks).
Available RAM usually hovers around 8-900MB when everything is running and processor load runs at around 30-40% – so there appears to be plenty of RAM available to run apps and the processor isn’t overloaded.
I am thinking of upgrading the RAM to 4 Gigs (4 x 1 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM sticks) as I am getting really irritated everytime the bloody thing hangs or takes ages to load. Hopefully this will speed the bugger up a bit.
Has anybody else installed Office 2007 (any version) or have any views on it apparently gobbling up available system resource???
Your system spec certainly does not appear to be the issue here.
Applications can at times seem to use up large amount of resources for no apparant reason.
I would say Office 2007 would be a little more demanding than 2003, but nothing you should really be noticing to the degree you are.Can you check your exchange account settings and see if enycrypt communication between Outlook and Exchange option is checked. if it is, try unchecking this, restart office and re-ticking it, i do recall someone mentioning this to me and they noticed a vast improvement in office’s response.
Personally i use Office XP, and see no need to change it anytime soon, if it aint broke, dont fix it 8)
It’s a combination of factors not just the ram.
Your hard drive and cache play major parts too.
If you put 4gb of ram in the machine, it will still seem a bit slow loading.
MS office does need a lot of power to run it well.
The only place ms office works well on servers, the home computers are always a bit underpowered for it.
I know the ms office 08 versions are only “useable” on dual core systems with more than 8gb of high-end ram.
What I would do is up grade your ram to 4gb and use corsair ddr 400/pc3200xms memory non eec unbuffered cl3 heat spreader lifetime warranty for about £280
The best stuff is ddr 400hmz/pc3200 hyper xmemory from Kingston costing about £200 per gb
Cheap ram is only for the home users using msworks or play on the web.
I would just put ms office 03 back on, its not a bad program and works well.
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/cat/Memory—Desktop/subcat/DDR-3200-2GB
After a quick scoot around various forums, many people are reporting the same issue as PB, and are also rather baffled as to why.
There system’s are more than capable of dealing with Office, but nobody seems to be able to put there finger on exactly why this is happening :evil:@anita Gofradump wrote:
After a quick scoot around various forums, many people are reporting the same issue as PB, and are also rather baffled as to why.
There system’s are more than capable of dealing with Office, but nobody seems to be able to put there finger on exactly why this is happening :evil:Well equally it has me stumped as well. Theoretically my system is more than capable of supporting Office 2007 and yet I noticed an almost immmediate slow down shortly after install. The entire system has become very ”notchy” and often hangs, whereas before it ran really fast with minimal delay in loading apps or multi-tasking.
I have also noticed that Outlook 2007 (with Business Contact Manager – ”BCM”) seems to be able to only perform one task at a time. So if I send an e-mail (or if it polls and starts a download) I cannot move from say my inbox to another box or to ‘contacts’ nor can I delete a mail or move it until it has completed the download. This never happened with Outlook 2003 (with BCM) – you could happily jump from one facility or view to another whilst it worked away in the background.
I also have used Cacheman to optimise my memory settings in case they were not set to the best configuration. I am using non-EEC RAM (exactly in line with Asus P4P800 recommendations) and the ram sticks are configured in pairs to enable dual channel processing. I’ve checked Microsoft’s minimum system requirements for running Office 2007 and my system is way over these.
I take your point abour cheap RAM DOA but I don’t think that £200+ per GB is going to give me an enormous step increase in throughput compared with spendind around £50-£60 per GB. These ramsticks will still allow around 6.4GB/s data transfer rate which is plenty fast enough.
I don’t need heat spreaders as my system has a substantial amount of fan cooling (I’ve fitted 3 additional cooling fans into the PC case) – so overheating isn’t an issue.
I am still puzzled so any further info would be gratefully received.
DOA’s suggestion would be a costly mistake i feel also.[/b] (suprised he hasnt suggested it’s a virus yet lol), Did you try what i suggested earlier? did you notice any difference at all when disabling the encrypt communication?
The only thing i can say for sure is, the more im reading up, the more i see people having problems with office 2007 and nobody appears to have a quick fix solution. Only things people are saying it the .PST seem to be whats draining the life out the system as they are using up so much of the systems resources on xp, but people are saying it’s fine on Vista and no such issues. My head hurts from reading page after page on site after site of the same issue. Many people have just given up and gone back to 2003, good luck! lol.
actually i agree here Anita. i recently got my pc stuffed with devices from a university geek,,heck my pc was like Fort Worth,and it even made me a cuppa in the morning.im sure it was even programmed to give me a w.an.k ! ..but it was too much,,all this vista et al.so i re programmed it to go back to IE. criminal really..as its top o the range regards programmes,,yet i use it to haver shyte on msn and pass on the odd e -mail..
sometimes lifes simple pleasures are better than working my way as a technophobe into reading script and making me own programmes LOL..
back to basics for this auld chick..
Yes I have done that now … and thanks for the tip.
I have also disabled / deleted a number of the options related to Exchange Server as my Outlook installation is not connected via a server – as well as desktop search and related functions.
This sems to have speeded up the application loading time a bit (as you would expect) but my guess is that the Office suite consumes a load more RAM that Microsoft indicates on their product specs.
At the end of the day my gut feel is that by upgrading my RAM from 1.5GB to 4.0GB will produce a substantial improvement in system speed and hopefully reduce or eradicate it’s tendency to momentarily ”hang”.
@forumhostpb wrote:
Yes I have done that now … and thanks for the tip.
I have also disabled / deleted a number of the options related to Exchange Server as my Outlook installation is not connected via a server – as well as desktop search and related functions.
This sems to have speeded up the application loading time a bit (as you would expect) but my guess is that the Office suite consumes a load more RAM that Microsoft indicates on their product specs.
At the end of the day my gut feel is that by upgrading my RAM from 1.5GB to 4.0GB will produce a substantial improvement in system speed and hopefully reduce or eradicate it’s tendency to momentarily ”hang”.
I don’t think there is any denying you will notice some improvement with 4gb in there, but i would be suprised if it met your expectations for it to be as smooth as 2003 say, but i could be wrong.
Anyway are you a secret lottery winner? 4GB greedy guts, i think this place is making you to much money, ill have to cut down on my page impressions :lol:
Lottery winner …. I wish. No – thank God for Visa I say. My card is going to have to take the strain on this occasion.
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