Excel extremely slow opening and using

When using spreadsheets, everything is extremely slow, such as moving from
one cell to the next, saving, etc. This is on the hard drive. I also have
saved spreadsheets on a ZIP disk and those seem to be trying to open but
won't, possibly because it takes so long. The one on disk that I can open, if
I try to do anything, such as move a worksheet or copy a worksheet, the
computer freezes up and won't do anything. I have to shut it down and start
over. I had memory added and that didn't change a thing. I also did the disk
fragment and that stuff and that didn't do anything either.

slow down can be cause by out of memory, out of disk
space and viruses.

>-----Original Message-----
>When using spreadsheets, everything is extremely slow,
such as moving from
>one cell to the next, saving, etc. This is on the hard
drive. I also have
>saved spreadsheets on a ZIP disk and those seem to be
trying to open but
>won't, possibly because it takes so long. The one on disk
that I can open, if
>I try to do anything, such as move a worksheet or copy a
worksheet, the
>computer freezes up and won't do anything. I have to shut
it down and start
>over. I had memory added and that didn't change a thing.
I also did the disk
>fragment and that stuff and that didn't do anything
either.
>.
>

Try Windows diagnostic tools, such as RegMon and FileMon from
www.sysinternals.com
It wont tell you what, but it will give you clues.

--
Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"domestic911" <domestic911@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When using spreadsheets, everything is extremely slow, such as moving from
> one cell to the next, saving, etc. This is on the hard drive. I also have
> saved spreadsheets on a ZIP disk and those seem to be trying to open but
> won't, possibly because it takes so long. The one on disk that I can open,
> if
> I try to do anything, such as move a worksheet or copy a worksheet, the
> computer freezes up and won't do anything. I have to shut it down and
> start
> over. I had memory added and that didn't change a thing. I also did the
> disk
> fragment and that stuff and that didn't do anything either.