On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 00:13 +0100, JT wrote:
I have had many-a-problem with word and its virus scanning antics. I have not yet managed to work out where to disable its automatic attempts to scan files before opening them - personally I make sure that no viri can come into the system, so any document I have shouldn't be infected, plus automatic daily scans would pick up anything that did manage to make it in.
Seeing as in a week I probably only open/edit five or six different documents, its very frustraiting to sometimes wait five or more minutes whilst it performs this redundant check.
Actually this has caught me out before, when it says that it is not only doing the check, There is a known bug in Word (that can only be fixed properly with a Per Incident Support Patch or by upgrading to 2007 last time I looked) where if a document is created with a template from a UNC path to a network resource that is no longer available then there will sometimes be a wait whilst that document opens (with the virus scanning message still at the bottom).
I had the problem with a client that would take his laptop home and not always connect to the VPN, documents that opened instantly when he was in the office would then take up to several minutes unless he connected to the VPN first. In the end I cheated and made the network templates folder available offline using the offline files synchronisation tools.
I think this is specific to when you have accessed the template file via a UNC path, if it is on a mapped drive that is no longer mapped etc then it is fine..but any unavailable UNC path lookup on windows takes ages as it cycles through the various name lookup mechanisms (presumably just to check to see if the template has been updated or something).