{"id":153,"date":"2011-11-22T22:36:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T22:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2011-11-22T22:37:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T22:37:20","slug":"ms-excel-files-open-extremely-slow-over-the-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"MS Excel files open extremely slow over the network"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Here\u2019s the fix for slowness opening Excel 2003 files over the network.<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>A  customer recently complained that opening Excel 2003 files over the network  drive was very slow and seemed to cause Excel to hang. If you took that same  Excel file from the network drive and copied it to the local computer drive the  slowness went away.<\/p>\n<p>A search for this type of problem revealed a lot of different answers,  however here\u2019s the solution that worked for this customer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Remove the 4\/07\/2011 Excel security update <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/security\/bulletin\/ms11-045.mspx\" target=\"_blank\">KB2541025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I tried other resolutions offered, however this was the one that resolved the  slowness for me (other solutions are offered below). It seems Microsoft has  introduced some security checks regarding remote code execution that breaks or  severely slows down opening files over the network. No doubt an update will  follow but it is not available as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p>[Update: I had another XP computer that I also had to additionally uninstall  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/en\/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;id=19902\">KB2502786<\/a> update]<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Excel-2003-icon\" src=\"http:\/\/techsupport.foreverwarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Excel-2003-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"199\" \/>How to remove this Excel Security Update:<\/h2>\n<p>To remove this update from within Microsoft Windows XP, go to Add\/Remove  Programs and click the checkbox at the top of the window to Show Updates. Now  scroll down until you see the KB number shown above and uninstall it. I reboot  the customer\u2019s computer afterwards just to be sure there\u2019s no residual  information in the Windows Registry.<\/p>\n<p>After removing this update Excel was again able to open files over the  network.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Be careful that this update does not get pulled again  on the next Windows Update sequence.<\/p>\n<p>Other things to try:<br \/>\nOne of the comments below also suggests: <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2570623\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2570623<\/a>, option 4<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft Support\" href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/833041\">&#8211; Microsoft Support<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtofixcomputers.com\/forums\/microsoft-office\/excel-2003-documents-open-slow-do-not-open-26519.html\">&#8211;  Check your DDE<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Check the comments below.<br \/>\n&#8211; Thanks to Steve Harman  over at <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.techarena.in\/ms-office-support\/749154.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Techarena<\/a> for offering this fix!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the fix for slowness opening Excel 2003 files over the network. A customer recently complained that opening Excel 2003 files over the network drive was very slow and seemed to cause Excel to hang. If you took that same Excel file from the network drive and copied it to the local computer drive the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-office-07"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}