based on information contained in the multiple cross postings across a
couple of dozen groups. Your computer is sadly neglected, having be
passed from user to user, never having old users files removed etc. etc.
And then you start 10 instances?!?? of Excel and copy paste between them
and then wonder why eventually it fails to copy paste? If I was to
correct this PC, I would make sure I had good backups of the data files
then wipe the drive reinstall the operating system and Office.

LunaMoon wrote:

Hi all,

I am using Excel 2003 for some project.

I am having 2GB C drive harddisk space.

After a while, the Excel begins to be extremely slow in copy and
paste...

It takes about half an hour to copy and paste just a few cells...

I've consulted people. It seems a memory problem.

But I cannot close my windows and kill the processes, because I am
running long-running (overnight) jobs...

I cannot reboot either.

Is there a way to clean the memory and let Excel 2003 clipboard
function properly without rebooting or killing my 4 long-running
processes?

Thanks!

p.s. I am sure this is an issue due to the special clipboard feature
of Excel 2003. It's very weird, is there a way to get rid of that
feature?

When the copy&paste was hung, I also checked the task manager, and
found no CPU usage for this particular operation, every single
copy&paste will cost me 30 minutes. And my colleagues are having the
same problem.

They say the only way out for them was to reboot...

How stupid is Excel 2003!