I have a workbook that saves in less than a second on my Windows 98SE
512MB Office 2000 machine. e.g. Load workbook, change text entry, slick
"Save" icon on toolbar.

The same workbook takes 10 seconds to save on my 2 GHz 512MB XP machine.

Are there Save features in Excel that I can adjust to try to improve the
save speed?

TIA,
Mike

Mike,

There is nothing within Excel that you can set to change the save speed. Usually, it is a system
issue: network connections, anti-virus software, mis-behaving add-ins, disk fragmentation, temp
folder overload, etc. There's a whole list of things that can come into play....

Try starting Excel in safe mode:

Excel.exe /s will open Excel in safe mode
Clean up the temp folder.
windows Start button - choose Run
%temp%
That will take you to the temporary folder: Clean up everything you can.



HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Mike Scirocco" wrote in message
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I have a workbook that saves in less than a second on my Windows 98SE 512MB Office 2000 machine.
e.g. Load workbook, change text entry, slick "Save" icon on toolbar.

The same workbook takes 10 seconds to save on my 2 GHz 512MB XP machine.

Are there Save features in Excel that I can adjust to try to improve the save speed?

TIA,
Mike