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Windows to load Office at startup so you don't notice how long it takes

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May 01, 2025
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PC World's Michael Crider reports that Office is now so slow to load that "Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup." The "Startup Boost" function, soon to be available, frontloads the suite's apps so they are ready to use—at whatever cost to performance results from them being memory-resident.

You know how every annoying Windows program …

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