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In article <smfr-1112962202090001@simon.santafe.edu>, smfr@santafe.edu
(Simon Fraser) wrote:

> In article <cradom-1112961531180001@news.iamerica.net>,
> cradom@iamerica.net (Sandtiger) wrote:
> 
> >In article <AED4424C966823ECB@quadra1.demon.co.uk>, nospam@tamuchly.com
> >(Phil Read) wrote:
> >
> >//I have 500k Excel doc which normally opens as fast as Excel does, albeit
> >//slowly. Just recently Excel opens and draws the window of the file but
> >//takes ages to actually deliver all the figures etc. If I open the file
> >//after having opened Excel then it opens in the blink of an eye. There is
> >//plenty of memory made available to it so this can't be the problem. I have
> >//just reinstalled the system software, Excel and the rest of my extensions
> >//etc. and lo and behold it opens fine again but after a while its back to go
> >//slow again. it doesn't appear to affect any other programs except maybe
> >//Filemaker is a bit slow opening. Any ideas?
> 
> Do you have Excel loading any AddIns when it starts up? This
> can really slow down the Excel startup process (and may slow
> loading of files as well). Excel is always a little slow
> responding to the user just after it has started; it seems to
> be loading code fragments or something to deal with user 
> interaction.
> 
> Simon

Sounds like disk fragmentation.

Damned news server is acting up again--posted anonymously.

Regards,

Joe Ragosta