Excel files open very slowly

Hi,

I have installed windows 10 pro a couple of days ago and I now experience a strange behavior from excel (office 2013). I suspect this worked when booting new OS for the first time.

When I open any excel file from any location on any hard drive (ssd or hdd) it takes around 10 or more seconds for the file to open. When first opening excel itself and opening any file from inside of excel, everything is instant. This issue is not uncommon, however none of the solutions I found online worked for me.

I also tried to run windows without any non-microsoft services, disabled all start up programs, issue remained. Reinstalled office too. All the other office programs work correctly.

Has anyone had the same experience and would anyone have any idea or suggestion? Anything is welcome.

Thank you very much.

Hi,

no as the files are stored on system drive, which is a brand new ssd. Everything else opens instantly, it is just the excel files from windows. When opening directly from excel (selecting the file from excel), all is fine.

I even tried creating a new file with just 1 cell populated. It is quite a common issue anyway, but everyone had a different solution to it and since clean boot doesn't fix it for me I have no starting point to see which program might be causing it.

Good idea, just tried that. Literally nothing was happening for 10 - 15 seconds until the final second when it quickly loaded.

office is installed on main drive, there are no addins active.

Well this issue has been there since office 2007 from all the topics I saw online, I don't think it is strictly related to windows. Obviously it is connected. I just got unlucky with whatever I installed I guess.