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!