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Xenophane
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Posted - 08/08/2012 :  06:45:38 AM  Show Profile  Visit Xenophane's Homepage  Send Xenophane an ICQ Message  Reply with Quote
Office 2013 prompted me to upgrade to a new version, and I just said yes and went to a meeting...

Got back about 1 hour later, to a very sluggish machine and found this message on the screen.



Then I checked the start menu:



Then I checked with Process Explorer



Seeing each process used 15 MB of RAM.

I then went to PowerShell to figure out how many of these processes was actually running.

In 1 hour the updater had spawned 627 message boxes to tell me it was working hard, at least my system was working hard having to run 627 processes each using 15 MB of RAM.
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Edited by - Xenophane on 08/08/2012 06:46:12 AM

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Posted - 08/08/2012 :  11:14:49 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
LOL! Weird mine hasn't prompted me for any updates... Did you do the web-based installer or d/l the full pro plus (I did the latter)?
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Xenophane
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Posted - 08/08/2012 :  11:43:36 AM  Show Profile  Visit Xenophane's Homepage  Send Xenophane an ICQ Message  Reply with Quote
I tried the web based installer...
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Curt
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Posted - 08/08/2012 :  12:23:03 PM  Show Profile  Visit Curt's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I did a clean install and did not get any errors.

But the opening screen of Word 2013 will suprise a few people.

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Originally posted by Xenophane

Office 2013 prompted me to upgrade to a new version, and I just said yes and went to a meeting...

Got back about 1 hour later, to a very sluggish machine and found this message on the screen.



Then I checked the start menu:



Then I checked with Process Explorer



Seeing each process used 15 MB of RAM.

I then went to PowerShell to figure out how many of these processes was actually running.

In 1 hour the updater had spawned 627 message boxes to tell me it was working hard, at least my system was working hard having to run 627 processes each using 15 MB of RAM.
Curt Spanburgh
Microsoft Certified Business Solution Specialist.
Dynamics CRM MVP
Contributing Editor, Windows IT Pro

He that is walking with wise persons will become wise, but he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly.
Proverbs 13:20


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