Recent content by CraigMan

Eventually my wife and I solved this problem. We started uninstalling programs. After our 3rd pass thru "add/remove programs" - no more slow startup. I can't say specifically which program was the culprit. But it would be worth cleaning out old programs to see if you get similar results. Craig...

I'll give your suggestions a shot when I have a chance. Thanks for all the replies. Craig Meyers, BSNucE, PE

I finally got back to troubleshooting this problem. There is nothing in the event viewer. I tried booting in safe mode and DO NOT have a problem. I can open a web page immediately. Then when I boot normally, it hangs for about 5 minutes. Then I can open a web page. Would this imply that I need...

Sorry it has taken me so long to close the loop. I finally found the magical combination of services to disable and programs to remove from startup. My initial problem has been solved. NOW my only delay is networking. Takes about 5 minutes (or more) to get connectivity (lan icon in system...

I haven't tried anything from the last two replies yet. But I plan to do so tonight. I'll let you know of my results. Thanks! Craig Meyers, BSNucE, PE

My startup tasks are limited to the bare minimum. I've already done disk clean, defrag, and chkdsk. This is a desktop machine. And much to my chagrin, a DELL. I've updated all driver that are in use. Which I also stripped down to the bare minimum. TaskBar Plus! does not address the problem...

I'm running Windows XP SP2 Home edition. I've been working on this problem on and off for several weeks: The boot process works fine to a point. I get a fully functional desktop. However, the taskbar hangs for a minimum of 15 minutes. The Start button is not functional and neither is right...

Very cool. I didn't think of that! Craig Meyers, BSNucE, PE

Actually that's pretty useful but unfortunately it's vbscript. Using Word's built-in Find and Replace has a small subset of the functionality of standard RE wildcards. Thanks! Craig Meyers, BSNucE, PE

Zero or more occurences would definitely help. It's pretty sad when text editors like Nedit and TextPad have richer search and replace features than Word. Craig Meyers, BSNucE, PE

I'm using Word regular expressions in Selection.Find (wildcards ON) to parse sections of a document into excel cells. I have experience with regular expressions and it seems Word has limited functionality in that regard. My document is laid out like an outline and I'm trying to develop a...

Thanks. I was hoping there was some way around this limitation. I need more than 31 characters. Craig Meyers, BSNucE, PE

I have an excel app that adds worksheets with rather large names. It appears that there is a worksheet name size limitation. Is there any way to get around it? Craig Meyers, BSNucE, PE

Thanks for the help!! Craig Meyers, BSNucE, PE

Trying to restrict the records returned by a query in excel. I would like to specify a from and to date in two excel cells and use these two dates in the query. Can this be done? Programatically? Craig Meyers, BSNucE, PE