Opening excel file directly is very slow

Anonymous
2013-02-26T12:25:10+00:00

I can open Excel directly and it launches immediately - not an issue.

I can launch Excel directly and then open a file - it opens the file immediately.

However if I open a file directly - without previously launching excel - it takes a long time - 30 to 40s.

I have tried many suggestions found online but none help. Does anyone have any ideas please?

Win 7 64 Bit

Office 2010

Thanks

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Anonymous
2013-03-02T00:50:36+00:00

Solved.......I worked it out from searching the internet.

The issue is Superfetch. Mine was switched off.

As soon as it was turned on from Regedit followed by me starting it in Services - it works perfectly!

Here is the text from the solution....

I found this on Technipages website:

Mitch wrote:

"Superfetch caches data to RAM so that it can be immediately available to your application. Sometimes this can affect the performance of certain applications. It tends to not work well with gaming, but can improve performance with business apps.

To modify whether Superfetch is enabled or disabled, you can perform the following steps:

  1. Click the Start orb and type REGEDIT in the Start Search area.
  2. Open the Registry Editor.
  3. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

then SYSTEM

then CurrentControlSet

then Control

then Session Manager

then MemoryManagement ****then click PrefetchParameters

  1. On the right side, double-click on EnableSuperfetch
  2. Give it one of the following values:

0 to disable Superfetch

1 to enable prefetching when program is launched

2 to enable boot prefetching

3 to enable prefectching of everything

Hit OK then Close RegEdit. "

Then goto the services MSC ("windows key + r" or just "windows key" and type services.msc). Scroll down to Superfetch and now should start. Click Start on the left info pane or double click it and change to automatic, then attempt to start again.

For informational purposes I chose the 4th option to enable prefetching for everything.

Hope this helps.

A.J. Silverman

MCSE+I, MCP, A+

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-09-11T22:50:08+00:00

    Try logging out of your Microsoft account on the machine and logging in "locally" instead. That solved it for me, but you do lose the Cortana functionality. 

    You can log out / log in by hitting start, right click your username on the left hand corner, select Change Account Settings, and from there you should be able to select "log in locally to this machine" or something to that effect.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-11T22:27:54+00:00

    How is this still a problem after almost two years?

    I too am having the same problem and it's frustrating as hell.  I turned off Cortana but I do not see it running in the task manager.  I just want my Excel files to open quickly when double-clicking.

    Thanks for all the help Microsoft!

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-09-10T17:27:25+00:00

    Incredible, this worked like a charm on Windows 10 -- Excel 2013.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-09-09T14:47:41+00:00

    Upgrade from Win7 to Win10 and had slow Excel and Access databases when double clicking the XLSX or ACCDB files directly. Followed the turning off Cortana as suggested and hey presto! clicking Excel and Access fiels is now fast at starting.

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