Comments on: Google Toolbar Slows Excel

By: Prem

Prem — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:30:00 +0000

Hats off to Dick Kusleika . It helped . It was a pain on my neck .

By: Jeremy Kenyon

Jeremy Kenyon — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:33:00 +0000

Well, In June 2010, I have just found the same problem with the Google Desktop Office AddIn (which was installed within the last 9 months or so).

Basically this plugin installs with Google Desktop and proceeds to wreck your Excel. I have so far seen the AddIn cause the following problems:

- Undo and Redo break after a save. After saving my undo chain is just 2 items, but worse is that it will only redo 1 of them. So if I save, undo, redo, I lose the change - very confusing to say the least.

- Performance on selecting lots of rows. I have a spreadsheet with about 20k rows. Just selecting rows used to slow down so quickly that after I had selected 5 or 6 pages it just died. Without the AddIn it selects blindingly fast.

- Performance on inserts and clears - dreadful on lots of lines with the AddIn in place.

Whatever you do, disable this AddIn, and you will have a much happier time with Excel.

Shame on Google for releasing such a broken piece of s**t

By: alex

alex — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:16:00 +0000

Too lazy to confirm this, but I bet I had this problem but solved it a different way.

I was using excel to manipulate 40K rows of data and simply deleting the data was taking forever.

I turned off virtual memory - I have 4GB RAM installed and figured I should rarely use virtual memory (aka swap file) anyway.

By: arianraj

arianraj — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:24:00 +0000

really good found out, for the excel users.

By: Sudeep John

Sudeep John — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:10:00 +0000

This definitely helped though you can also turn off google desktop by going to google program file

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By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:43:00 +0000

Statistically speaking people who have Google Toolbars or more specifically Google Desktop are more likely to have other apps running in the background on their machines. So there is bound to be a general slowdown when comparing relative machines. It doesn’t appear to slow mine down although Google Desktop does generally take up a lot of resources.

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By: alderaic

alderaic — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:16:00 +0000

I tried that benchmark and for me turning off events slows down excel… go figure… at least I can assume than I dont have too much crap on my computer

By: Hui...

Hui... — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:30:00 +0000

The Google Toolbar and Search functions also stops Outlook 2003 opening emails with email attachments, still allows you open other file types ?

Google are bound to fix these issues quickly, I hope !