excel files slow to load, hang, error or timeout

been getting lots of calls about excel files not opening or taking a very long time mostly over the network. well tracked it down to a windows update. Office File Validation addon. Once I removed this update from add remove programs the problem went away. A client said it took 6 minutes to open up one file, after removing the update it took 2 seconds to open same file..

also if you manually do updates i'd suggest hiding this update so it doesnt get reinstalled and cause problems in the future.. for a fast unistall of the addon at the cmd prompt run the following to remove the update

msiexec.exe /x {90140000-2005-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} /q

adobe premiere pro preview choppy, lag, hangs, does nothing.

Well i got this new tiny camera and it imports to my computer as avi. When I opened them in premiere my previews didn't work for anything. well i found a fix for now. atleast it worked for me. trust me i tried alot.

open up adobe media encoder. i picked uncompressed avi file from one of the menus. once that was done, took like 28 mins, opened up premiere and dragged the video in and it now plays fine in preview.


by the way the camera is the vd80. mini dv video camera. well hope this helps anyone with same problem.