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    Office 2010 faster?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by f4ding, Dec 29, 2009.

  1. f4ding

    f4ding Laptop Owner

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    Do you guys also think that the new MS Office 2010 loads soooo much faster? I mean wow. I have Outlook, Word, and Excel installed, and thye load max 1secs, average "instantly". Just wow.
     
    f4ding, Dec 29, 2009
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    Drjones Notebook Consultant

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    A bug that I and many others have discovered is that Outlook 2010 x64 will NOT synchronize with iTunes.

    The x86 version seems to work ok for some, though it didn't for me; my contacts synced, but about half of them were blank except for the name; emails, phones, addresses, etc. had all been deleted by outlook.

    No issue for me as I had all my stuff backed up, but I promptly switched to Google Sync for my contacts.

    iPhone users, you have been warned.


    Yep, it's pretty darn quick. :)
     
    Drjones, Dec 30, 2009
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  3. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yepp, they sped it up :)

    It might be because it loads some of it at boot up though ;) - prefetches it.
     
    DetlevCM, Dec 30, 2009
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  4. Drjones

    Drjones Notebook Consultant

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    True, unfortunately there are TWO new startup entries for office 2010 - one eponymous, the other "send a smile."

    I can't make this crap up. :rolleyes:

    Anyhow, I disabled both and Office 2010 still loads faster than any other version so far.
     
    Drjones, Dec 30, 2009
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    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Good to hear :)

    Well, I think plenty of core components were taken over from Office 2007 - same as Vista vs. Win7 so :)
     
    DetlevCM, Dec 30, 2009
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  6. f4ding

    f4ding Laptop Owner

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    Preload? Well, that's OK because first I don't reboot that many times, Vista or 7 are just so stable these days I just put the machine to sleep every time. Second, my boot time with all these preloads is still very low, around 15s.

    I'm not sure about eponymous, but I uninstall the 'send a smile' right after I sent one comment giving them prop for the fast startup. LOL.
     
    f4ding, Dec 30, 2009
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