[labecs]

I'm working on a semi-large document (129 pages) and I usually press control-s every few minutes, I've been doing it for years. But I recently did a clean install of Windows 7 and of course, Word 2007, and now it takes a few seconds for Word to finish saving the document. This hasn't happened to me since the earliest versions of Word. What setting am I missing for this to happen?

[dustyw]

It's not you, it's just the way Microsoft does people. But you can always the following:
1. Delete your cookies and your TEMP files, most of them you will never need again anyway.
2. De-fragment your hard-drive occasionally.
This frees up you PC's memory so you can work more efficiently!

[labecs]

Mmmm.... I don't think that's the case. Disk is defragmented, I have tons and tons of memory, I clean the temps continuously... I had been using Word 2007 for two years before I upgraded to Win 7, and it was never slow before. Any more ideas?

[dustyw]

Yeah, but it's nothing you want to hear.

[DaveA]

You said that you did a clean install of Windows 7, what was the OS before you did this?

How long is a FEW SECONDS?

[labecs]

I had been working with Vista 64 for two years. The save is taking 4, 5 seconds in a doc 120 pages long. For a 300 page doc, it's about 10 seconds or more. This is the size of doc I'm used to working with, and this has not happened before. I know it sound ridiculous, but it used to be lightning fast and now I actually have to wait every time I save which is very often as you might imagine in such large documents

[DaveA]

You did NOT answer my question about the install of Windows 7 clean!

[labecs]

Yes, I did a clean install of Win 7

[DaveA]

What OS was on this machine before you did this clean install?

[labecs]

I said in one of my replies that it was Vista 64 Bit, home premium.

[DaveA]

Sorry I missed that statement. Your system icon near your user name shows Windows XP.

How much RAM and empty disk space on how large of disk do you have?

[labecs]

I have 370 free GB, 316 used and 6gb RAM, Intel Core 2 Quad CPU. But Like I said, this started happening after the clean install of Win 7 and a fresh install of Office 2007. It had never happened before. Maybe I could reinstall??

[DaveA]

Have you tweaked the PageFile (swap file) of your system?
Sometimes messing with this will in turn slow things down.

[labecs]

Thank you DaveA for taking the time to help me with my dilemma No, I haven't tweaked anything. And in general, my system is running well, and Word doesn't lag nor is it slow in any other way but in the saves. That's it. It reminds me of the early versions where you really had to wait watching the little clock turning, so, I'm guessing it's a setting in Word itself, not my system.

I don't even know what the PageFile is ??