Posted October 17, 200816 yr I've posted a similar question here before, and seen the same question posed elsewhere, with no useful responses, so I'm trying again. Running fully patched, up to date, virus-proof and adware-proof, etc., Windows XP SP3, Office 2007. Often DDE-enabled file types open slowly. For example, if http links are set to open with DDE, it might take 5-10 seconds for the link to appear in the browser if DDE is disabled, it opens instantly. The machine has plenty of resources: Thinkpad x61 Dual core 2.0 GHz CPU 4 GB RAM relative recent fresh installation no extra services etc.. I've disabled the Network DDE service, which is the one suggestion I've seen out there, but it makes no difference. Once a DDE call has been made, the next several are much faster. For example, clicking on a link from Outlook might take 5-10 seconds for the link to open in the (already open) web browser via DDE, but after that successive links open pretty quickly. If it's been a while since the last link, however, it is slow again. It seems like perhaps some sort of DDE service that should be staying active is dying and needing to start up again. Any ideas how to troubleshoot or fix, short of disabling DDE on all relevant file types (which Windows seems to like to reset frequently)? This problem appears to be fairly common with no solutions.
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