XPost: microsoft.public.word.newusers, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general   
   From: G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , Steve Hayes   
    writes:   
   >On Wed, 25 May 2016 04:05:57 +0700, JJ  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Tue, 24 May 2016 19:37:21 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>> I installed MS Office 2003 on my computer the other day, and since   
   >>> then it seems to run a lot slower, and it takes 20-30 minutes to boot   
   >>> instead of the usual 7 (Windows XP)*   
      
   Ouch! Though ...   
   >>   
   >>In my old system (1.6GHz 2-cores, 2GB RAM), it took about 2 minutes to boot.   
   >>A 7 minutes boot seems a lot is going on, or the PC or HDD is just slow.   
      
   ... I agree with JJ there: even 7 minutes is slow. FWIW, I have Office   
   2003 on this machine - XP SP3, single core processor, 2G - and it boots   
   in less than 7 minutes.   
   >>   
   >>- Office 2003 minimum RAM is 1GB. If you only have 2GB of RAM and using more   
   >>than 500MB after boot up before Office 2003 is installed, it's likely that   
   >>you now have very little memory space left for applications. AFAIK, Office   
   >>installs an application that is run at startup. It sets up and pre-loads   
   >>files that are used by any Office suite applications so that the   
      
   IIRR, I _have_ prevented the part that loads upon booting from doing so,   
   though I don't remember how. (I don't _think_ it was a setting inside   
   Office itself - I think I had to use something external to it.)   
      
   >>applications would load faster. The disadvantage is that it consume memory,   
   >>in expense for faster application loading. If the total memory consumption   
   >>in the whole system is larger than the RAM capacity, there will be memory   
   >>data swapping to and from the disk, which slows down the overall system   
   >>performance. Fix: turn off and disable unneeded applications. i.e. no need   
   >>to run an application at startup if it's not used every day.   
   >   
   >Thanks for this.   
   >   
   >I've tried using autoruns, but it doesn't seem to make much   
   >difference.   
   >   
   >I'm thinking of doing the following:   
   >   
   >1) Uninstalling MS-Office 2003   
   >2) Restoring the System ?Restore point I created before installing it   
   >3) Restoring the backups I made of the relevant disks before   
   >installing MS Office 2003.   
   >   
   >Any recommendations about the best order for doing those things?   
   >   
   >   
   Not really, but I'd try to sort out the 7 min boot before the reinstall.   
   Unless you really do have low RAM (I'd not try to run XP SP3 in under   
   1½G RAM these days, certainly if you have Firefox), I'd suspect either   
   failing hard disc, or something very badly misconfigured.   
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