Recent content by bigalib

I had the same idea and forced to automatic everything that was 'delayed start' with no success. I saved all the Service activity as well and couldn't find what was blocking. Windows 10 is doing something at startup that clashes with the DDE but I haven't found out what. Thanks for the idea anyway.

There are many issues at shutdown or with explorer in previous Windows 10 builds, these seem to have been fixed. I have not found specifically my issue in google but you are right it is not surprising given the fact DDE is old and not supported. Switching to ActiveX some quite elaborated tools...

Yes, thanks but it doesn't solve the problem At startup it seems it is waiting for some Windows services to complete or is in conflict with some services. Once the startup has completed and all delayed services are up and running (after a few minutes), opening the spreadsheet does not suffer...

TWS is the best to me

Under Windows 10, my tws dde excel spreadsheet can't open and freezes excel for the first let say 5min after windows started up. Excel is not responding during this time (XL 2010 or 2013, I have tried both and have tried various machines with Win10) If the spreadsheet is opened beyond this 5min...