Fixing MS Word and Excel slow to launch or start
July 3rd, 2008 | by HowToGuru |You know how it is. After you’ve used MS Word or Excel for a few months or years, suddenly it takes a lot longer to load the application when you doubleclick on a .doc or .xls file. Maybe you tried to clean up your registry or defragged your hard disk but nothing worked. Well, here’s the solution:
“Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, File Types, scroll down to and
select (DOC for Word files) or XLS (for Excel files), click Advanced,
select Open entry, click the edit Button.
Now uncheck “Use DDE” and then put your cursor in the Application box,
arrow all the way to the right and put in “%1″ (include the quote
marks), IF there is /dde remove it. Then OK you way out. Things should
work quickly again.”
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