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Take printers offline to improve WORD performance?
I run WinXP Pro/SP2 and have about a dozen printers defined. Half of
these printers are actually various drivers to create PDFs. I tend to use only two or three of thse printers. Would it help to improve general system performance if I set the rarely-used printer drivers to "offline"? If it doesn't help *general* system performance then would it help speed up certain applications such as MS Word. Despite clearing out MS Word addins and cleaning up normal.dot, my MS Word still launches a bit slowly. IIRC Word is aware of the default printer for the PC and perhaps Word is aware of other printers too. I think Word uses the printer definition to make some of Word's features work such as line numbering. Any help about this is welcome. |
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... I run WinXP Pro/SP2 and have about a dozen printers defined. Half of these printers are actually various drivers to create PDFs. Why do you need so many? One would be sufficient...(a PDF is a PDF is a PDF........) |
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Take printers offline to improve WORD performance?
Taking printers offline won't make your computer or any installed
application run faster. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est John wrote: I run WinXP Pro/SP2 and have about a dozen printers defined. Half of these printers are actually various drivers to create PDFs. I tend to use only two or three of thse printers. Would it help to improve general system performance if I set the rarely-used printer drivers to "offline"? If it doesn't help *general* system performance then would it help speed up certain applications such as MS Word. Despite clearing out MS Word addins and cleaning up normal.dot, my MS Word still launches a bit slowly. IIRC Word is aware of the default printer for the PC and perhaps Word is aware of other printers too. I think Word uses the printer definition to make some of Word's features work such as line numbering. Any help about this is welcome. |
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John wrote: I run WinXP Pro/SP2 and have about a dozen printers defined. Half of these printers are actually various drivers to create PDFs. That's ok. I tend to use only two or three of thse printers. Would it help to improve general system performance if I set the rarely-used printer drivers to "offline"? Nope. If it doesn't help *general* system performance then would it help speed up certain applications such as MS Word. Despite clearing out MS Word addins and cleaning up normal.dot, my MS Word still launches a bit slowly. Nope. Probably your computer hardware. IIRC Word is aware of the default printer for the PC and perhaps Word is aware of other printers too. I think Word uses the printer definition to make some of Word's features work such as line numbering. it depends solely on the default printer. Any help about this is welcome. |
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Take printers offline to improve WORD performance?
Word will only look at the Windows Default printer unless you specifically
select a different printer from the File, Print dialog. Then it will stop looking at the Windows default printer until you change back again (or restart Word). So removing printers or taking them off line will not improve performance of Word. But please note that Word MUST see a default installed printer to work correctly - so don't remove them all g -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "John" wrote in message ... I run WinXP Pro/SP2 and have about a dozen printers defined. Half of these printers are actually various drivers to create PDFs. I tend to use only two or three of thse printers. Would it help to improve general system performance if I set the rarely-used printer drivers to "offline"? If it doesn't help *general* system performance then would it help speed up certain applications such as MS Word. Despite clearing out MS Word addins and cleaning up normal.dot, my MS Word still launches a bit slowly. IIRC Word is aware of the default printer for the PC and perhaps Word is aware of other printers too. I think Word uses the printer definition to make some of Word's features work such as line numbering. Any help about this is welcome. |
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Take printers offline to improve WORD performance?
Word will only look at the Windows Default printer unless you specifically
select a different printer from the File, Print dialog. Then it will stop looking at the Windows default printer until you change back again (or restart Word). So removing printers or taking them off line will not improve performance of Word. But please note that Word MUST see a default installed printer to work correctly - so don't remove them all g I'd normally agree with you 100% and be giving the same advice, however a while back, I've struggled on a regular basis with one of my systems that had a remote printer defined as the default (well, *both* of my printers are remote--they're hooked up to an old laptop that's left on 24/7 for various tasks). As soon as I invoked *any* printer function (preview, print, navigating the printer dialog boxes), the application that invoked the dialog box would hang for a good 2-3 minutes for every single click and tab navigation. Word was pretty badly affected--it came to a point where it just hung completely (eg, no response for a half hour) whenever I tried to shut it down. I'd end up having to kill the task. By deleting all printers, the system worked perfectly fine. The same was happening whichever of my two printers I setup as the default. I ended up deleting (permanently) all printer connections from that system, and only temporarily creating it when I actually needed to print something. I've removed/reinstalled drivers repeatedly (and various versions), both on the local and remote system, deleting/recreating the printer share on the remote system, sometimes it started working fine, then the problem would come back after a few days...right now--touch wood--my system's decided to get its act together and has been fine for a few weeks. Damned if I know why. I've asked about this in this newsgroup but never came across a final solution. I'm just crossing my fingers it keeps working like it does right now... |
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Take printers offline to improve WORD performance?
But did you have the driver for the remote printer installed locally?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Homer J. Simpson" wrote in message ... Word will only look at the Windows Default printer unless you specifically select a different printer from the File, Print dialog. Then it will stop looking at the Windows default printer until you change back again (or restart Word). So removing printers or taking them off line will not improve performance of Word. But please note that Word MUST see a default installed printer to work correctly - so don't remove them all g I'd normally agree with you 100% and be giving the same advice, however a while back, I've struggled on a regular basis with one of my systems that had a remote printer defined as the default (well, *both* of my printers are remote--they're hooked up to an old laptop that's left on 24/7 for various tasks). As soon as I invoked *any* printer function (preview, print, navigating the printer dialog boxes), the application that invoked the dialog box would hang for a good 2-3 minutes for every single click and tab navigation. Word was pretty badly affected--it came to a point where it just hung completely (eg, no response for a half hour) whenever I tried to shut it down. I'd end up having to kill the task. By deleting all printers, the system worked perfectly fine. The same was happening whichever of my two printers I setup as the default. I ended up deleting (permanently) all printer connections from that system, and only temporarily creating it when I actually needed to print something. I've removed/reinstalled drivers repeatedly (and various versions), both on the local and remote system, deleting/recreating the printer share on the remote system, sometimes it started working fine, then the problem would come back after a few days...right now--touch wood--my system's decided to get its act together and has been fine for a few weeks. Damned if I know why. I've asked about this in this newsgroup but never came across a final solution. I'm just crossing my fingers it keeps working like it does right now... |
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Take printers offline to improve WORD performance?
On Nov 2, 9:40 am, John wrote:
I run WinXP Pro/SP2 and have about a dozen printers defined. Half of these printers are actually various drivers to create PDFs. I tend to use only two or three of thse printers. Would it help to improve general system performance if I set the rarely-used printer drivers to "offline"? If it doesn't help *general* system performance then would it help speed up certain applications such as MS Word. Despite clearing out MS Word addins and cleaning up normal.dot, my MS Word still launches a bit slowly. IIRC Word is aware of the default printer for the PC and perhaps Word is aware of other printers too. I think Word uses the printer definition to make some of Word's features work such as line numbering. Any help about this is welcome. Defined printers but used seldom would not slow down your PC. The main problem you is the general access time of the application. You need to check hard drive space and your RAM quantity. By increasing RAM and free space on the hard drive, this will be better for your system. One also thing is that Word will request a "virus" check at its start up. Several A/V can have this feature turned off. |
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Take printers offline to improve WORD performance?
On Fri 02 Nov 2007 14:40:38, John wrote:
I run WinXP Pro/SP2 and have about a dozen printers defined. Half of these printers are actually various drivers to create PDFs. I tend to use only two or three of thse printers. Would it help to improve general system performance if I set the rarely-used printer drivers to "offline"? If it doesn't help *general* system performance then would it help speed up certain applications such as MS Word. Despite clearing out MS Word addins and cleaning up normal.dot, my MS Word still launches a bit slowly. IIRC Word is aware of the default printer for the PC and perhaps Word is aware of other printers too. I think Word uses the printer definition to make some of Word's features work such as line numbering. Any help about this is welcome. Can't see it making any difference! |
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Take printers offline to improve WORD performance?
Sorry to revive such an old thread, I just never went back to it...Normally
I'd just drop it, but I find this answer peculiar and just had to follow up... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But did you have the driver for the remote printer installed locally? I don't understand--as opposed to what, having the driver installed remotely? I don't even know what that would mean... "Homer J. Simpson" wrote in message ... Word will only look at the Windows Default printer unless you specifically select a different printer from the File, Print dialog. Then it will stop looking at the Windows default printer until you change back again (or restart Word). So removing printers or taking them off line will not improve performance of Word. But please note that Word MUST see a default installed printer to work correctly - so don't remove them all g I'd normally agree with you 100% and be giving the same advice, however a while back, I've struggled on a regular basis with one of my systems that had a remote printer defined as the default (well, *both* of my printers are remote--they're hooked up to an old laptop that's left on 24/7 for various tasks). As soon as I invoked *any* printer function (preview, print, navigating the printer dialog boxes), the application that invoked the dialog box would hang for a good 2-3 minutes for every single click and tab navigation. Word was pretty badly affected--it came to a point where it just hung completely (eg, no response for a half hour) whenever I tried to shut it down. I'd end up having to kill the task. By deleting all printers, the system worked perfectly fine. The same was happening whichever of my two printers I setup as the default. I ended up deleting (permanently) all printer connections from that system, and only temporarily creating it when I actually needed to print something. I've removed/reinstalled drivers repeatedly (and various versions), both on the local and remote system, deleting/recreating the printer share on the remote system, sometimes it started working fine, then the problem would come back after a few days...right now--touch wood--my system's decided to get its act together and has been fine for a few weeks. Damned if I know why. I've asked about this in this newsgroup but never came across a final solution. I'm just crossing my fingers it keeps working like it does right now... |
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Take printers offline to improve WORD performance?
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:15:45 -0500, "Homer J. Simpson" wrote:
Sorry to revive such an old thread, I just never went back to it...Normally I'd just drop it, but I find this answer peculiar and just had to follow up... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But did you have the driver for the remote printer installed locally? I don't understand--as opposed to what, having the driver installed remotely? I don't even know what that would mean... Yes, the question is about locally versus remotely installed drivers. A locally installed driver is one whose file (usually a file with a .dll extension) is located on the same PC that's running Word. A remotely installed driver is one whose file is located on some other machine, usually the PC to which the physical printer is attached, or maybe a network server -- and has to be loaded across the network. Because network traffic is much slower than memory access, there can be considerable delay. Because Word can't even finish loading until it can talk to the default printer driver, that can cause a lot of indigestion. When you use the "Add a Printer" wizard in Windows' Printers & Faxes dialog, one of the questions is whether the printer is local or networked. If you say it's networked, you have the option of whether to copy the driver locally. For Word, we recommend that you always accept that option. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Take printers offline to improve WORD performance?
That's cause you read it backwards. I'll paraphrase. Do you have the
correct driver installed on your PC for the printer you want to print to. Homer J. Simpson wrote: Sorry to revive such an old thread, I just never went back to it...Normally I'd just drop it, but I find this answer peculiar and just had to follow up... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But did you have the driver for the remote printer installed locally? I don't understand--as opposed to what, having the driver installed remotely? I don't even know what that would mean... "Homer J. Simpson" wrote in message .. . Word will only look at the Windows Default printer unless you specifically select a different printer from the File, Print dialog. Then it will stop looking at the Windows default printer until you change back again (or restart Word). So removing printers or taking them off line will not improve performance of Word. But please note that Word MUST see a default installed printer to work correctly - so don't remove them all g I'd normally agree with you 100% and be giving the same advice, however a while back, I've struggled on a regular basis with one of my systems that had a remote printer defined as the default (well, *both* of my printers are remote--they're hooked up to an old laptop that's left on 24/7 for various tasks). As soon as I invoked *any* printer function (preview, print, navigating the printer dialog boxes), the application that invoked the dialog box would hang for a good 2-3 minutes for every single click and tab navigation. Word was pretty badly affected--it came to a point where it just hung completely (eg, no response for a half hour) whenever I tried to shut it down. I'd end up having to kill the task. By deleting all printers, the system worked perfectly fine. The same was happening whichever of my two printers I setup as the default. I ended up deleting (permanently) all printer connections from that system, and only temporarily creating it when I actually needed to print something. I've removed/reinstalled drivers repeatedly (and various versions), both on the local and remote system, deleting/recreating the printer share on the remote system, sometimes it started working fine, then the problem would come back after a few days...right now--touch wood--my system's decided to get its act together and has been fine for a few weeks. Damned if I know why. I've asked about this in this newsgroup but never came across a final solution. I'm just crossing my fingers it keeps working like it does right now... |
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Take printers offline to improve WORD performance?
Dont know why you need to troubleshoot MSWORD performance from that angle.
Printer drives should not give problem. Why dont you troubleshoot from the User Profile approach. Check you profile, what is the size of your profile? (generally, after installing WinXP, you profile should be under 16Mbytes (max). Try this approach: Goto to these locations and delete all the shortcuts to trim your profile. C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Recent C:\Documents and Settings\willie\Local Settings -- delete all items in Temporary Internet files; Temp folder; History folder; C:\Documents and Settings\willie\Recent - delete all the shortcuts; If your profile is still large, try checking your profile to see if there are any programs that is installed with default path leading to your profile. If there are remove them now. Now check your profile, it should run well if its reduced to say 35Mbytes. It sure will help you bootup and shutdown. This issue was resolved since 2003, dont know why its still asked. "John" wrote: I run WinXP Pro/SP2 and have about a dozen printers defined. Half of these printers are actually various drivers to create PDFs. I tend to use only two or three of thse printers. Would it help to improve general system performance if I set the rarely-used printer drivers to "offline"? If it doesn't help *general* system performance then would it help speed up certain applications such as MS Word. Despite clearing out MS Word addins and cleaning up normal.dot, my MS Word still launches a bit slowly. IIRC Word is aware of the default printer for the PC and perhaps Word is aware of other printers too. I think Word uses the printer definition to make some of Word's features work such as line numbering. Any help about this is welcome. |
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Take printers offline to improve WORD performance?
That's cause you read it backwards. I'll paraphrase. Do you have the
correct driver installed on your PC for the printer you want to print to. Ah. That makes sense. I read: But did you have the driver for the remote printer installed locally? ....as implying it could somehow be installed remotely. As in, the driver would be installed on a remote machine. Does not compute. :-) If Suzanne meant it the way you're saying, then "locally" is really unnecessary in this context. One way or another, yeah, the full driver name matches the label on the printer exactly. |
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