When I open up a spreadsheet on my laptop it looks for links and takes a long
time. Some spreadsheets are very old or very large and will not open
properly at all - they go through the recovery process. However, the same
spreadsheet has no problem on my desktop. My desktop does not look for links
when it opens.

How can I set up my laptop to not look for links. I know I can do this
after I open the spreadsheet (tools\option\etc), but I need to turn off this
feature before I open the spreadsheet.

I did not have this probelm with my prvious laptop. This has started only
recently when I got my new laptop - Dell D630. We do our own office
installation.