This has got me stumped.

If I load any add-in, AND then unload it again, then quit excel, it takes
much tool long to quit. The app window disappears but watching it in the
task manager I see about a 90Mb memory bloat and 99% cpu usage for over a
minute. I've tried this with a variety of add-ins - mine as well as Rob
Bovey's, JKP's, solver.xla etc.

Alternatively, if I load excel with no add-ins at all and quit immediately,
it exits cleanly. I've cleared out the registry as best I can, got rid of
any unwanted or old add-ins refs. Tried the new detect and repair tool.
Running Excel XP.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Robin Hammond
www.enhanceddatasystems.com

Don't know if this applies to Excel XP, but have you tried:

In Outlook under ToolsOptionsPreferencesJour*nalling: un-check the
office apps.

Aidey

Aidey,

Thanks for the idea. Not a bad suggestion but I don't use the journal at
all.

Anyone else with ideas?

Robin Hammond
www.enhanceddatasystems.com

"aidey" wrote in message
ups.com...
Don't know if this applies to Excel XP, but have you tried:

In Outlook under ToolsOptionsPreferencesJour*nalling: un-check the
office apps.

Aidey

Robin,

any COMaddins trying to disconnect?

try with "Ignore Other Apps" checked/unchecked (under options/general)

the obvious:
clean temp directory (remove the VBE subfolder?)
less obvious:
a damaged XLB (try to temporarily rename the xlb in
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel


use regmon (sysinternals) to see what's happening in the registry
(set filter to include "excel*")

a normal exit would result in 120-200 lines generated.
maybe you can trace if it recursively "hammers" a specific registry
entry.

use FILMON (sysinternals) to see what's happening on the disk.
(havent tried that yet)


--
keepITcool
| www.XLsupport.com | keepITcool chello nl | amsterdam


Robin Hammond wrote :

Aidey,

Thanks for the idea. Not a bad suggestion but I don't use the journal
at all.

Anyone else with ideas?

Robin Hammond
www.enhanceddatasystems.com

"aidey" wrote in message
ups.com... Don't
know if this applies to Excel XP, but have you tried:

In Outlook under ToolsOptionsPreferencesJour*nalling: un-check the
office apps.

Aidey

keepITcool,

Many thanks. That Regmon thing is quite cool!

Excel was hanging on a toolbar registry key. Rebuilt the toolbar, which went
from 40M to 185K, Excel's memory footprint is down by about 60M. Exits in a
flash.

I'll buy you a beer in Amsterdam over the summer. Probably there for a few
days in August if you're around!

Robin Hammond
www.enhanceddatasystems.com

"keepITcool" wrote in message
ft.com...

Robin,

any COMaddins trying to disconnect?

try with "Ignore Other Apps" checked/unchecked (under options/general)

the obvious:
clean temp directory (remove the VBE subfolder?)
less obvious:
a damaged XLB (try to temporarily rename the xlb in
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel


use regmon (sysinternals) to see what's happening in the registry
(set filter to include "excel*")

a normal exit would result in 120-200 lines generated.
maybe you can trace if it recursively "hammers" a specific registry
entry.

use FILMON (sysinternals) to see what's happening on the disk.
(havent tried that yet)


--
keepITcool
| www.XLsupport.com | keepITcool chello nl | amsterdam


Robin Hammond wrote :

Aidey,

Thanks for the idea. Not a bad suggestion but I don't use the journal
at all.

Anyone else with ideas?

Robin Hammond
www.enhanceddatasystems.com

"aidey" wrote in message
ups.com... Don't
know if this applies to Excel XP, but have you tried:

In Outlook under ToolsOptionsPreferencesJour*nalling: un-check the
office apps.

Aidey

I've had regmon since the darkages (when i started with win95?)
and it's been usefull.

I'll take you up on the beer!
Contact me when you're in town .. sunny day preferred :)


--
keepITcool
| www.XLsupport.com | keepITcool chello nl | amsterdam


Robin Hammond wrote :

keepITcool,

Many thanks. That Regmon thing is quite cool!

Excel was hanging on a toolbar registry key. Rebuilt the toolbar,
which went from 40M to 185K, Excel's memory footprint is down by
about 60M. Exits in a flash.

I'll buy you a beer in Amsterdam over the summer. Probably there for
a few days in August if you're around!

Robin Hammond
www.enhanceddatasystems.com

When you say that you don't use the journal, do you mean that the
options in Outlook are unchecked? I was caught out by this even though
I've never even run Outlook, let alone Outlook journalling.

Aidey,

I use outlook but don't enable any journal options.

Thanks for the ideas. It was the toolbar as KeepItCool suggested.

Robin Hammond
www.enhanceddatasystems.com

"aidey" wrote in message
ups.com...
When you say that you don't use the journal, do you mean that the
options in Outlook are unchecked? I was caught out by this even though
I've never even run Outlook, let alone Outlook journalling.