vista office 12 severe slowdown

Just added office 12 Beta to my Vista box, caused the PC to slow to an absolute crawl. All runs OK but boot up was near 4 minutes and explorer ect runs like treacle.
min specs for Office 12 are not that high, nowhere near the spec of the Vista box its on.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/sysreq.mspx
Is it just me or has anybody else had problems with Office 12?
Jonah

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:14:09 +0100, Conor wrote:

In article , jonah says...
Just added office 12 Beta to my Vista box, caused the PC to slow to an absolute crawl. All runs OK but boot up was near 4 minutes and explorer ect runs like treacle.
min specs for Office 12 are not that high, nowhere near the spec of the Vista box its on.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/sysreq.mspx
Is it just me or has anybody else had problems with Office 12?
It's not that bloody auto defragmenter kicking in is it?

Oh FFS..............yeah thats exactly what it is.
If it ain't broke don't fix it strikes again eh!
Ta Conor
Jonah

None other than being beta software. The main elements of Office appear to be very stable. Internet Explorer and Outlook hang occassionaly but like I said, it is beta. Did you modify the install? If so, I would deinstall and just click through the reinstall. Sorry I can't be of more help.
"jonah" wrote:

Just added office 12 Beta to my Vista box, caused the PC to slow to an absolute crawl. All runs OK but boot up was near 4 minutes and explorer ect runs like treacle.
min specs for Office 12 are not that high, nowhere near the spec of the Vista box its on.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/sysreq.mspx
Is it just me or has anybody else had problems with Office 12?
Jonah

I'vw been testing Vista Beta 2, Office 2007 Beta 2, and Expressions Web Design Beta on a minimal machine, P4 1.6 with 1 GB ram. It is slow but usable and fairly stable. I did a default install of Office and EWD.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
jonah wrote:

Just added office 12 Beta to my Vista box, caused the PC to slow to an absolute crawl. All runs OK but boot up was near 4 minutes and explorer ect runs like treacle.
min specs for Office 12 are not that high, nowhere near the spec of the Vista box its on.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/sysreq.mspx
Is it just me or has anybody else had problems with Office 12?
Jonah

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:58:01 -0700, Barry Snyder wrote:

None other than being beta software. The main elements of Office appear to be very stable. Internet Explorer and Outlook hang occassionaly but like I said, it is beta. Did you modify the install? If so, I would deinstall and just click through the reinstall. Sorry I can't be of more help.
"jonah" wrote:
Just added office 12 Beta to my Vista box, caused the PC to slow to an absolute crawl. All runs OK but boot up was near 4 minutes and explorer ect runs like treacle.
min specs for Office 12 are not that high, nowhere near the spec of the Vista box its on.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/sysreq.mspx
Is it just me or has anybody else had problems with Office 12?
Jonah
No I have installed it twice now, it was only on the second install

(after a disaster with PartImage and a re-install of Vista) I discovered the very slow running was caused by Office 12.
I don't use office here or at work anyway I use Open Office I just wanted to have a look at the Beta Office 12.
I have stuck it on an XP test box where it runs just fine, quite nice, but I am not about to start paying for Office I just need to check it out for maintenance purposes.
Thanks Anyway Guys
Jonah

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:52:01 -0700, "Kerry Brown" wrote:

I'vw been testing Vista Beta 2, Office 2007 Beta 2, and Expressions Web Design Beta on a minimal machine, P4 1.6 with 1 GB ram. It is slow but usable and fairly stable. I did a default install of Office and EWD.

My current (Vista)test box is on a Sempron 2.6 but only 512 RAM, could be an issue but Office 12 runs fine on an XP test box of the same spec. I may up the RAM in the Vista box and have another go but I don't use Office anyway so its purely academic.
Jonah

I had 512 Mb and upgraded to 1 GB. It made a significant a difference. I use Outlook accessing an Exchange server and several pop accounts (running all day), EWD, Word, and Excel throughout the day as needed. I also often have Media Player playing mp3's from a network share. It is slower than than XP would be on the same hardware but it is usable.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
jonah wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:52:01 -0700, "Kerry Brown" kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote:
I'vw been testing Vista Beta 2, Office 2007 Beta 2, and Expressions Web Design Beta on a minimal machine, P4 1.6 with 1 GB ram. It is slow but usable and fairly stable. I did a default install of Office and EWD.
My current (Vista)test box is on a Sempron 2.6 but only 512 RAM, could be an issue but Office 12 runs fine on an XP test box of the same spec. I may up the RAM in the Vista box and have another go but I don't use Office anyway so its purely academic.
Jonah

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:33:16 -0700, "Kerry Brown" wrote:

I had 512 Mb and upgraded to 1 GB. It made a significant a difference. I use Outlook accessing an Exchange server and several pop accounts (running all day), EWD, Word, and Excel throughout the day as needed. I also often have Media Player playing mp3's from a network share. It is slower than than XP would be on the same hardware but it is usable.

OK Kerry I will upgrade it, got some RAM around somewhere. Actually I really like Office 12, the layout and ribbon interface are a vast improvement. I will try it with Vista again when I have upped the RAM on this box.
Ta
Jonah

Jonah wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:33:16 -0700, "Kerry Brown" kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote:
I had 512 Mb and upgraded to 1 GB. It made a significant a difference. I use Outlook accessing an Exchange server and several pop accounts (running all day), EWD, Word, and Excel throughout the day as needed. I also often have Media Player playing mp3's from a network share. It is slower than than XP would be on the same hardware but it is usable.
OK Kerry I will upgrade it, got some RAM around somewhere. Actually I really like Office 12, the layout and ribbon interface are a vast improvement. I will try it with Vista again when I have upped the RAM on this box.
Ta
Jonah

Let us know what happens. I've got a few customers who are already asking about Vista. Any info about running it on a typical system is useful.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:47:02 -0700, "Kerry Brown" wrote:

Jonah wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:33:16 -0700, "Kerry Brown" kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote:
I had 512 Mb and upgraded to 1 GB. It made a significant a difference. I use Outlook accessing an Exchange server and several pop accounts (running all day), EWD, Word, and Excel throughout the day as needed. I also often have Media Player playing mp3's from a network share. It is slower than than XP would be on the same hardware but it is usable.
OK Kerry I will upgrade it, got some RAM around somewhere. Actually I really like Office 12, the layout and ribbon interface are a vast improvement. I will try it with Vista again when I have upped the RAM on this box.
Ta
Jonah
Let us know what happens. I've got a few customers who are already asking about Vista. Any info about running it on a typical system is useful.

K mate, I will get round to it tomorrow.
Jonah

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:47:02 -0700, "Kerry Brown" wrote:

Jonah wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:33:16 -0700, "Kerry Brown" kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote:
I had 512 Mb and upgraded to 1 GB. It made a significant a difference. I use Outlook accessing an Exchange server and several pop accounts (running all day), EWD, Word, and Excel throughout the day as needed. I also often have Media Player playing mp3's from a network share. It is slower than than XP would be on the same hardware but it is usable.
OK Kerry I will upgrade it, got some RAM around somewhere. Actually I really like Office 12, the layout and ribbon interface are a vast improvement. I will try it with Vista again when I have upped the RAM on this box.
Ta
Jonah
Let us know what happens. I've got a few customers who are already asking about Vista. Any info about running it on a typical system is useful.

Kerry,
Upped RAM to 1Gb and tried again, huge improvement in speed and useability, not that fast but acceptable for a beta. More importantly the rest of the PC was operating at a reasonable speed and not bogging down with 100% processor problems.
MSI K8MMV Mobo , AMD Sempron 2.6 Processor, 1Gb RAM, 80Gb Western Digital SATA HDD, Audigy ZS Audio & Nvidia 5500 128Mb Video Card.
Not cutting edge of specs but good enough, seems RAM is critical with Vista & Office 12 combined on this particular rig which I would add is a little better specced than the average office PC I deal with most of which use onboard video & sound and mostly have 256 RAM occasionally 512.
Office 12 is great, I love it, going to cause problems with low spec XP machines though I reckon. I will try it on a old 1.4 AMD XP machine with 256 RAM tomorrow and see how that goes.
Jonah

jonah wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:47:02 -0700, "Kerry Brown" kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote:
Jonah wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:33:16 -0700, "Kerry Brown" kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote:
I had 512 Mb and upgraded to 1 GB. It made a significant a difference. I use Outlook accessing an Exchange server and several pop accounts (running all day), EWD, Word, and Excel throughout the day as needed. I also often have Media Player playing mp3's from a network share. It is slower than than XP would be on the same hardware but it is usable.
OK Kerry I will upgrade it, got some RAM around somewhere. Actually I really like Office 12, the layout and ribbon interface are a vast improvement. I will try it with Vista again when I have upped the RAM on this box.
Ta
Jonah
Let us know what happens. I've got a few customers who are already asking about Vista. Any info about running it on a typical system is useful.
Kerry,
Upped RAM to 1Gb and tried again, huge improvement in speed and useability, not that fast but acceptable for a beta. More importantly the rest of the PC was operating at a reasonable speed and not bogging down with 100% processor problems.
MSI K8MMV Mobo , AMD Sempron 2.6 Processor, 1Gb RAM, 80Gb Western Digital SATA HDD, Audigy ZS Audio & Nvidia 5500 128Mb Video Card.
Not cutting edge of specs but good enough, seems RAM is critical with Vista & Office 12 combined on this particular rig which I would add is a little better specced than the average office PC I deal with most of which use onboard video & sound and mostly have 256 RAM occasionally 512.
Office 12 is great, I love it, going to cause problems with low spec XP machines though I reckon. I will try it on a old 1.4 AMD XP machine with 256 RAM tomorrow and see how that goes.

Thanks for the update. It echoes my experience. 1 GB ram seems to be the minimum for Office and Vista, at least with the Betas of both. I'm trying to find the minmum usable configuration so when customers ask I can say get x, y, and z and it'll work OK, add a, b, and c and it'll fly. Most of my customers are at 512 MB ram with onboard graphics and sound. By the time both Office and Vista are released I think upgrading to 1 GB should make them usable. I agree that Office 12 is great. It did take me by surprise when I first started using it. Where did all the menus go? Now that I'm used to the new interface I like it.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User