Hello All
A strange thing has been happening recently with Excel 2007 on my PC (Windows XP SP2).
If I open Excel and then double-click on an Excel document in Windows Explorer, both the program and the document open instantaneously.
However, if I double-click on an Excel document before opening Excel, then it takes a whole minute for the document to appear!
Does anyone have any idea what's going on here, and how to fix it?
Thanks.
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A strange thing has been happening recently with Excel 2007 on my PC (Windows XP SP2).
If I open Excel and then double-click on an Excel document in Windows Explorer, both the program and the document open instantaneously.
However, if I double-click on an Excel document before opening Excel, then it takes a whole minute for the document to appear!
Does anyone have any idea what's going on here, and how to fix it?
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M$ Office 2007 is a big sham. You can open all M$ Office documents using OpenOffice.org and it's free! If you really need M$ Office, you should try to get the older versions instead of the 2007 version. It's going to be incompatible with the older stuff without the extra compatibility add-on (which of course makes it even slower than normal).
If you decide to keep using M$ Office, good luck. If you want free software from the Open Source community and other free licenses, then try OpenOffice.org. It much faster and leaner than the M$ applications.Hi BrianElliott0218
Thanks for the suggestion. I really love free software (who doesn't?), so I'll give it a try.
However, as I've bought Office 2007, I feel entitled to having it to work properly!
Well, it will take longer because windows has to open the excel program and then file.
However, if the problem is that doubleclicking takes longer than doing that manually then you do have a problem but I'm afraid I don't know how to fix it (short of wipe-reinstall).
Probably it takes longer because in between windows is opening excel program and the file you have the antivirus scanning the file.
Try to turn off your antivirus and see if the problem persist.
I still use Office 2K on my XP 64-bit system. Works like a champ. 
Office 2007 was pretty much developed as a money-making scam for businesses to buy more into MS.
IN hopes of answering your question, though... what process do you have running? Is there anything peculiar in your process list that shouldn't be there? Or that you question? Hello Craeft
Thanks for your 11th April post:
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| IN hopes of answering your question, though... what process do you have running? Is there anything peculiar in your process list that shouldn't be there? Or that you question? |
I would appreciate any help on this weird issue.
I should stress:
1. This is a nearly new PC with lots of horse power.
2. If I open Excel 2007 and then double-click a document, both the program and the document open practically instantaneously.
3. If I double-click a document without previously opening Excel 2007, then Excel opens immediately, but it takes a whole minute for the document to be displayed!
4. This whole situation just happened from one day to the next. Maybe I installed something that did this (e.g. a Microsoft Critical Update 
), but I can't remember.
So here, for starters, is the output of tasklist:
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Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage
========================= ====== ================ ======== ============
System Idle Process 0 Console 0 28 K
System 4 Console 0 264 K
smss.exe 1012 Console 0 440 K
csrss.exe 1116 Console 0 4.800 K
winlogon.exe 1140 Console 0 6.224 K
services.exe 1184 Console 0 4.208 K
lsass.exe 1196 Console 0 1.412 K
svchost.exe 1360 Console 0 5.148 K
svchost.exe 1476 Console 0 4.928 K
svchost.exe 1616 Console 0 30.704 K
InCDsrv.exe 1656 Console 0 3.784 K
svchost.exe 1844 Console 0 3.908 K
svchost.exe 2004 Console 0 5.736 K
spoolsv.exe 328 Console 0 8.988 K
explorer.exe 684 Console 0 34.412 K
atchksrv.exe 812 Console 0 1.940 K
AluSchedulerSvc.exe 824 Console 0 844 K
avp.exe 864 Console 0 13.112 K
ibguard.exe 904 Console 0 3.108 K
LSSrvc.exe 932 Console 0 2.424 K
LMS.exe 976 Console 0 2.452 K
VProSvc.exe 1032 Console 0 3.472 K
avp.exe 1532 Console 0 6.804 K
jusched.exe 1544 Console 0 3.364 K
sqlwriter.exe 1772 Console 0 4.056 K
svchost.exe 204 Console 0 4.484 K
igfxpers.exe 384 Console 0 3.024 K
VProTray.exe 1000 Console 0 7.052 K
MXOALDR.EXE 216 Console 0 2.740 K
OneTouch.exe 1072 Console 0 4.220 K
IntelAudioStudio.exe 1416 Console 0 23.772 K
InCD.exe 1376 Console 0 4.392 K
igfxtray.exe 1612 Console 0 3.536 K
hpwuSchd.exe 1836 Console 0 2.468 K
hkcmd.exe 1876 Console 0 3.532 K
atchk.exe 2104 Console 0 848 K
apdproxy.exe 2152 Console 0 5.144 K
msmsgs.exe 2180 Console 0 3.052 K
GoogleUpdate.exe 2200 Console 0 6.020 K
ctfmon.exe 2212 Console 0 3.472 K
C2CMonitor.exe 2300 Console 0 4.916 K
hpqtra08.exe 2336 Console 0 6.744 K
SymmTime.exe 2416 Console 0 10.488 K
sqlmangr.exe 2436 Console 0 5.408 K
ToshibaVoIPPhone.exe 2444 Console 0 4.068 K
WZQKPICK.EXE 2472 Console 0 3.408 K
WinDates.exe 2480 Console 0 8.924 K
youtubeuploader.exe 2488 Console 0 3.888 K
ibserver.exe 3188 Console 0 3.648 K
msiexec.exe 3652 Console 0 12.528 K
alg.exe 3712 Console 0 3.732 K
msiexec.exe 2536 Console 0 3.884 K
firefox.exe 2704 Console 0 101.392 K
notepad.exe 3088 Console 0 3.408 K
rundll32.exe 2056 Console 0 4.840 K
EXCEL.EXE 1596 Console 0 27.632 K
cmd.exe 2524 Console 0 2.884 K
tasklist.exe 2788 Console 0 4.524 K
wmiprvse.exe 3024 Console 0 5.716 K
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I can't see anything strange here, but perhaps you can.
Please let me know if you need any further info.
Thanks. are u using any virus scanner, if so it will be very slow only...
Hello Folks,
After nearly 2 months, I'm still waiting for a solution to this problem!
Fortunately, I've discovered a work-around - When I double-click an Excel document without starting Excel first (which means I'll have to wait 60 seconds for the document to open) , then, as soon as Excel appears, I double-click the document again, and it opens pronto.
I need hardly say that I am not very happy with this arrangement - and I find it difficult to believe that (a) nobody else is experiencing this problem and (b) nobody has a solution for it!
So, once again, please help me out if you can.
Hello Folks
I finally found a solution to this problem, and it's really simple.
For anyone with the same problem, here's what you do:
Add the parameter %1 for files of type of Excel 97-2003 in the “OPEN” settings of Explorer file associations as follows:
- Launch “Windows Explorer”
- Click Menu Tools -> Folder Options
- Click Tab “File Types”
- Select item XLS in the list
- Click Button “Advanced”
- Select Open in the list
- Click button “Edit”
- Then add “%1” after /e in the box “Application used to perform action:”
- Disable "use DDE"
and that's it!
I found this solution here Hello Folks
I'm afraid the solution I posted 2 days ago was not as good as I thought: it causes every spreadsheet that I open to open a NEW instance of Excel!
So I restored the original settings (which I had to finish off by editing the registry directly, to delete a pesky %1 that Windows for some reason kept on adding back in after I removed it!).
The GOOD solution is also very simple: Install the "Lookup Wizard" add-in in MS Excel:
1. Open Excel, and click the ball Office logo at the top-left of the program
2. Click button "Excel Options"
3. Select item "Add-Ins"
4. Select "Excel Add-Ins" in Manage list box (at the bottom of the window) and click button "Go..."
5. Tick the "Lookup Wizard" add-in and click button "OK"
6. Wait while Excel installs the add-in
This solution is also from here.
I should point out that this problem arises when opening Excel 2003 format *.xls files (rather than Excel 2007 format *.xlsx).
I didn't know the problem was was specific to this situation when I first found the problem, since up to now I have worked exclusively in the old *.xls format for compatibility with other PC's that still have Office 2003.
