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  • September 10, 2003 at 1:04 pm #2316221

    Files on the Network

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    by no_problem · about 18 years, 11 months ago

    I have a user that runs Windows 98SE. When she tries to open an Excel document from the Windows NT 4.0 server (BDC) it opens slowly (5 seconds) at times, other times it opens within a milli second.

    Why does this files sometimes do this?

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    • September 10, 2003 at 1:11 pm #3380271

      Reply To: Files on the Network

      by sgt_shultz · about 18 years, 11 months ago

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      is it only Excel? is it only a certain document? what version excel
      doesn’t sound like Excel to me, sounds like network problem…

    • September 10, 2003 at 1:35 pm #3380266

      Reply To: Files on the Network

      by ann777 · about 18 years, 11 months ago

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      One document?

      It’s going to depend on a number of factors:
      1) size of the file
      2) network utilization
      3) client utilization
      4) memory on the client computer
      5) hdd utilization (pulling up the excel program)

    • September 24, 2003 at 8:54 am #2743921

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      by mark · about 18 years, 10 months ago

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      I once saw a similar problem and it had to do with the print driver. Try setting your default printer to a generic Laser Printer and see if the problem occurs. This particularly seems to happen with USB printers and in the case I had, I just instructed the user to leave the laser printer as default and change it in the program or when printing.

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