The fact that you only have 2.2 GB left means you probably need to clean up
your hard drive (remove unnecessary/old/unused files), or buy a new (or used)
larger hard drive, a loaded hard drive might be slowing down your system
since you don't have as much space to temporarily store information.

As for Automatic calculations, that will slow down your Excel experience
only if the workbook(s) that you have open has a lot of filled cells to
calculate (mainly query calls, external links, lots of complicated formulas,
etc). If you only have a few cells filled, it shouldn't be slowing down,
especially not to 1 hr for a copy/paste!! That's crazy! (I'd say, it might
not hurt to call IT, if people here can't resolve it.)

Good luck, Jim
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