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'Save As' very slow in Office 2003

Feb 3, 2005 5:08PM PST

If I do a 'Save As' the explorer window opens. When I click on the 'Look in' drop down it takes a long time before enabling a folder selection. Again when I then select a folder within the window it takes along time to refresh.By long time I mean 5 - 10 seconds.
This happens when I 'open' or 'save as' and happens with all the office applications.

I am running XP SP2 and Office 2003 pro

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Try this.
Feb 4, 2005 3:06AM PST

Try to delete your cache settings or go into my computer-c:drive-winnt-temp folder. delete everything in their.Also what program are you opening up from?Is this windows explorer or an office application?

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'Save As' very slow in Office 2002
May 2, 2005 3:48AM PDT

I am seeing similar symptoms on an XP SP1 system with Office 2002 SP3. I get a long (2-3+ minute) delay when selecting the 'Save In' drop down from the 'Save As' window of Word, Excel and Powerpoint. I have applied all the XP and Office critical updates. Task manager displays 'not responding' status for the apps. I tried the suggested fix of deleting the files in the \Windows\Temp directory with no success.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!!

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ram
May 3, 2005 8:00AM PDT

This usually means that your RAM resources are being pushed to their limits. I'd be surprised if other applications aren't slow too. Norton Clean Sweep and Fix-it have been useful to me. Some folks on this forum aren't jazzed about norton products, they've always worked for me. Another really good product is Teak XP, should be easy to find.--Neo

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Network Shares
May 17, 2005 10:03AM PDT

I have observed this as well and I beleive that it is associated with Mapped Drives. Unfortunately I do not have resolution, yet.

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Slow save
May 26, 2005 4:05AM PDT

I verified that this is happening on the network and I have tried various suggestions to no avail.

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Me too - Slow Save with Office 2003
May 31, 2005 2:40PM PDT

Identical problem with slow saves began last week. I had to wipe my system clean from a slew of virus attacks and executable code issues I experienced using Word and Excel.

After reformatting the drive and doing a factory restore, everything was fine EXCEPT within two hours of each other, I did the following:

* Installed Microsoft Service Pack 3 to fix the security issue with Word.

* Reinstalled my company's VPN software, and mapped the drive.

I don't know which caused the problem but it was one of these two. I'm highly suspecting Service Pack 3 since my VPN access was just fine before.

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some info on cause
Jun 15, 2005 1:40AM PDT

This just happened to me, with open, and save as. I have XP, and office 2003, and it happens in all my loaded 2003 applications: word, outlook, and excel - but it does not happen in any office 2000 programs I have on the same pc. (access 97, access 2000 etc all work fine.) Also, file viewing in windows explorer, or other non-office applications are not affected.

I was about to uninstall 2003, and then re-install when I read the message about this being related to drive mapping, and I think this may be correct.

I had just turned off a second pc I have networked. When I turned it back on, the problem went away.

Printer drive mapping is also the only other major area in XP I have had bugs with. I will update if I figure this out any better. I am going to play with drive mapping, and try to get office to function properly, with the second pc turned off.

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some info on cause
Aug 3, 2005 1:02AM PDT

I'm also getting a slow save as dialog box. I have the complete office 2003 suite and it is slow on every application. I tried re-installing and repair to no avail.

Is the mapping of network drives the problem? I need my mapped drives, does anyone have another solution?

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Read.
Aug 3, 2005 2:32AM PDT
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mapped drive
Aug 3, 2005 5:29AM PDT

Thats it!! If you have any mapped network drives that are not active at the time of the ''Save As'' it will look to connect them and that is what causes the delay! Disconnect the mapped drives not used!

Thanks for the input!!

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disconnecting the mapped drives that were offline fixed it!
Aug 3, 2005 7:37AM PDT

My computer was mapped to several drives in our office. One computer has been off for several days - I unmapped all drives that did not respond and it fixed the problem immediately!

Thanks for the tip!

Rob