Open an excel Book. How can I speed it up? Koogie57 04.09.2006 19:45:02 It takes me 3-4 min. to open an Excel Book. I have cable (Road Runner) and am using USB from modem to tower.Have XP On my old slow puter using ME it always brought the book up in secs. HELP! Am also a beginner - know how to turn on and off and thats about it.

RE: Open an excel Book. How can I speed it up? JLatham 04.09.2006 23:10:02 Many things could be affecting your ability to quickly download and open an Excel workbook over the internet. The speed of the server (where you are getting the file from) controls some of it, the quality of the connection from there to your computer has some effect on it. The amount of memory in your computer can also play a role in this. Windows XP is very good at optimizing an internet connection, so 'tweaking' your system is probably not needed. One way to check to see if your connection is all that it should be would be to run some on-line speed tests from reputable/reliable speed test servers. This page has several available though it: http://www.dslreports.com/stest If you get 70% or more of your 'rated' speed, you have a good connection. Lets say RR says you have a 4Mb/512Kb connection, then if the tests show you are getting anything above 2800/358 then things are ok. Even if the test shows lower than that, time of day can also play in to it: run several tests from the same location(s) for a couple of days at different times before passing judgment. If you have any questions about that or think you have a problem with your RoadRunner connection, the folks at this discussion forum can try to help you figure it out: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/cable,rr you don't even have to create an account to ask questions and get help there. I don't think, at this point, that this is an Excel problem - not unless loading .xls files that are on your computer is also taking a very long time. Is this a new computer? "Koogie57" wrote: [Quoted Text] > It takes me 3-4 min. to open an Excel Book. I have cable (Road Runner) and > am using USB from modem to tower.Have XP > On my old slow puter using ME it always brought the book up in secs. > HELP! Am also a beginner - know how to turn on and off and thats about it.

RE: Open an excel Book. How can I speed it up? Koogie57 05.09.2006 00:19:01 Thank you JLatham. This is a new puter and it takes me the 3-4 minutes to bring up the xls that is already in my puter in Excel. Speed test. was terrible also. "JLatham" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Many things could be affecting your ability to quickly download and open an > Excel workbook over the internet. The speed of the server (where you are > getting the file from) controls some of it, the quality of the connection > from there to your computer has some effect on it. The amount of memory in > your computer can also play a role in this. Windows XP is very good at > optimizing an internet connection, so 'tweaking' your system is probably not > needed. > > One way to check to see if your connection is all that it should be would be > to run some on-line speed tests from reputable/reliable speed test servers. > This page has several available though it: > http://www.dslreports.com/stest > If you get 70% or more of your 'rated' speed, you have a good connection. > Lets say RR says you have a 4Mb/512Kb connection, then if the tests show you > are getting anything above 2800/358 then things are ok. Even if the test > shows lower than that, time of day can also play in to it: run several tests > from the same location(s) for a couple of days at different times before > passing judgment. > > If you have any questions about that or think you have a problem with your > RoadRunner connection, the folks at this discussion forum can try to help you > figure it out: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/cable,rr you don't even have > to create an account to ask questions and get help there. > > I don't think, at this point, that this is an Excel problem - not unless > loading .xls files that are on your computer is also taking a very long time. > Is this a new computer? > > "Koogie57" wrote: > > > It takes me 3-4 min. to open an Excel Book. I have cable (Road Runner) and > > am using USB from modem to tower.Have XP > > On my old slow puter using ME it always brought the book up in secs. > > HELP! Am also a beginner - know how to turn on and off and thats about it.

RE: Open an excel Book. How can I speed it up? JLatham 05.09.2006 02:16:01 Tough one. For now I would treat the two issues as separate ones. The internet speed issue is probably not related to slow loading on the computer. Many new computers come loaded with a lot of sample and demo software that you don't even need (and may not even want) running. Determining what is running on your computer is going to be difficult to determine here in this forum. You may have something running on the computer that is slowing things way down and it will be difficult to determine here what should be running and what doesn't need to be that could be a slow down. Can you describe the computer in terms of its brand/CPU/memory size? You can find out about the CPU and memory by right-clicking on My Computer and choosing [Properties]. The first [General] tab that shows up will have the CPU and memory information in the lower right portion under "Computer". Like this home made machine I'm on right now says: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ 2.41GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM Physical Address Extension Did Office and Excel come installed on the computer or did you put either of those on it after your purchased it? Do you have any other Excel files on the machine, and if you do, do they all load slowly or do most load swiftly and just that one loads slowly? "Koogie57" wrote: [Quoted Text] > It takes me 3-4 min. to open an Excel Book. I have cable (Road Runner) and > am using USB from modem to tower.Have XP > On my old slow puter using ME it always brought the book up in secs. > HELP! Am also a beginner - know how to turn on and off and thats about it.

RE: Open an excel Book. How can I speed it up? Koogie57 05.09.2006 18:43:02 Thank you so much for your time and efforts JLatham. I accidently got back all my speed now. I removed all the HP Games(one by one in the add/delete). Then removed the HP Game Console.(in the add/delete). Since all the games were referenced to Wild Tangent I removed Wild Tangent and Wild Tangent Driver(in the add/delete). Then removed the folders from the Program and Window Folders Thanks again, Have a great day Koogie57 "JLatham" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Tough one. For now I would treat the two issues as separate ones. The > internet speed issue is probably not related to slow loading on the computer. > > Many new computers come loaded with a lot of sample and demo software that > you don't even need (and may not even want) running. Determining what is > running on your computer is going to be difficult to determine here in this > forum. You may have something running on the computer that is slowing things > way down and it will be difficult to determine here what should be running > and what doesn't need to be that could be a slow down. > > Can you describe the computer in terms of its brand/CPU/memory size? You > can find out about the CPU and memory by right-clicking on My Computer and > choosing [Properties]. The first [General] tab that shows up will have the > CPU and memory information in the lower right portion under "Computer". Like > this home made machine I'm on right now says: > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual > Core Processor 4800+ > 2.41GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM > Physical Address Extension > > Did Office and Excel come installed on the computer or did you put either of > those on it after your purchased it? > > Do you have any other Excel files on the machine, and if you do, do they all > load slowly or do most load swiftly and just that one loads slowly? > > "Koogie57" wrote: > > > It takes me 3-4 min. to open an Excel Book. I have cable (Road Runner) and > > am using USB from modem to tower.Have XP > > On my old slow puter using ME it always brought the book up in secs. > > HELP! Am also a beginner - know how to turn on and off and thats about it.

RE: Open an excel Book. How can I speed it up? JLatham 05.09.2006 22:36:03 Good for you!! Might even want to dig around for any left over pieces of Wild Tangent. These things can really be obnoxious, and may not have even removed all of itself. Even other, 'legitimate' applications tend to leave pieces around after an uninstall. Might take a look at this page: http://www.pchell.com/support/wildtangent.shtml Don't be frightened by the name of one program mentioned, HijackThis - it is an excellent program for determining what's running on your computer and where it came from. A little difficult to interpret, but a Google about it will reveal several sites where you can get the results analyzed. "Koogie57" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Thank you so much for your time and efforts JLatham. > > I accidently got back all my speed now. > > I removed all the HP Games(one by one in the add/delete). > > Then removed the HP Game Console.(in the add/delete). > > Since all the games were referenced to Wild Tangent I removed Wild Tangent > and Wild Tangent Driver(in the add/delete). > > Then removed the folders from the Program and Window Folders > > Thanks again, Have a great day > > Koogie57 > > "JLatham" wrote: > > > Tough one. For now I would treat the two issues as separate ones. The > > internet speed issue is probably not related to slow loading on the computer. > > > > Many new computers come loaded with a lot of sample and demo software that > > you don't even need (and may not even want) running. Determining what is > > running on your computer is going to be difficult to determine here in this > > forum. You may have something running on the computer that is slowing things > > way down and it will be difficult to determine here what should be running > > and what doesn't need to be that could be a slow down. > > > > Can you describe the computer in terms of its brand/CPU/memory size? You > > can find out about the CPU and memory by right-clicking on My Computer and > > choosing [Properties]. The first [General] tab that shows up will have the > > CPU and memory information in the lower right portion under "Computer". Like > > this home made machine I'm on right now says: > > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual > > Core Processor 4800+ > > 2.41GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM > > Physical Address Extension > > > > Did Office and Excel come installed on the computer or did you put either of > > those on it after your purchased it? > > > > Do you have any other Excel files on the machine, and if you do, do they all > > load slowly or do most load swiftly and just that one loads slowly? > > > > "Koogie57" wrote: > > > > > It takes me 3-4 min. to open an Excel Book. I have cable (Road Runner) and > > > am using USB from modem to tower.Have XP > > > On my old slow puter using ME it always brought the book up in secs. > > > HELP! Am also a beginner - know how to turn on and off and thats about it.