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Q: Office 2013 on Win7 using bootcamp has delay times

I am using Win 7 Prof on a Macbook Air end 2014 with bootcamp 5 and MS Office 2013. Up to 4 weeks everything works fine, and the performance was great. And then I got delay times:

- closing Word is about 4 to 5 sec longer

- editig one Excel cell and switch to another will cost about 4 to 5 sec

- and so on

With this performance it is horrible to work. I have also deleted Office and install it new with no result.

 

Does anyone has some tips for me? Are there some Patches in what software ever that cause this?

Or am I alone with this????

 

THX in advance

Frank

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), Bootcamp 5

Posted on Aug 16, 2016 11:54 AM

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  • by JimmyCMPIT,

    JimmyCMPIT JimmyCMPIT Aug 16, 2016 12:05 PM in response to fscheren
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    Aug 16, 2016 12:05 PM in response to fscheren

    Your no longer in a Mac environment if this is happening to you on the "windows" side because you are not virtualizing, you are running Windows as a total Windows solution. OS X is not playing any part of your experience. Windows like OS X should be kept up-to-date with patches and securities update, the latter is the only support Windows offers for Version 7, it is out of development and has been retired by Microsoft for more than a year. Any patches for compatibility would need to come from Microsoft, check microsoft.com as to the availability of these.

     

    Outside of patching and the issues could be caused by:

    Drive fragmentation which is common in Windows. (however it's not in OS X, don't defrag on Mac, the OS updates will do all if it for you better than anything you can buy)

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17126/windows-7-improve-performance-def ragmenting-hard-disk

     

    Font management (again, on the "Windows" side, your OS X fonts don't play into this)

     

    3rd party Windows applications such as Anti-Virus and the litany of bloatware inherent with Windows. Windows has a startup modes for troubleshooting.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17419/windows-7-advanced-startup-option s-safe-mode

     

    and possibly, drive going bad, which can be checked using this method

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2641432

  • by Loner T,Solvedanswer

    Loner T Loner T Aug 17, 2016 3:09 AM in response to fscheren
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    Aug 17, 2016 3:09 AM in response to fscheren

    Can you monitor Office applications with Task Manager when using them? How large is your page file configured to be?

  • by fscheren,

    fscheren fscheren Aug 18, 2016 10:57 AM in response to Loner T
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    Aug 18, 2016 10:57 AM in response to Loner T

    First I checked the page file. It was configured as autmatic with 4 GB. I switsched it to 6 GB for a 4 GB RAM Notebook as I fount in some description in the internet. >> nothing happened, same bad performance

     

    Second I had a look on the task monitor. I looked for the general performance and also for the behavoir of Excel and Outlook what I am using. For me it looks fine ... Half of the physically ram is free, 233 MB Kernel RAM is outposted. I see some peeks when the problem accur, but very very low.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Aug 18, 2016 5:12 PM in response to fscheren
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    Aug 18, 2016 5:12 PM in response to fscheren

    Are you using an external drive to save your documents and/or use as working directory? The Work directory for the Office programs should typically point to internal disk.

  • by fscheren,

    fscheren fscheren Aug 23, 2016 1:49 AM in response to Loner T
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    Aug 23, 2016 1:49 AM in response to Loner T

    Thanks for all,

    I created a new user profile and then it workes. My old profile has about 47 GB in total (I had no files on desktop,

    and when I looked in the large folders, the size was not confirmed >> confusing)

    Now everything works fine

  • by fscheren,

    fscheren fscheren Aug 23, 2016 1:52 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT
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    Aug 23, 2016 1:52 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT

    Thanks for all,

    I created a new user profile and then it workes. My old profile has about 47 GB in total (I had no files on desktop,

    and when I looked in the large folders, the size was not confirmed >> confusing)

    Now everything works fine