{"id":836,"date":"2018-05-22T20:38:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T18:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=836"},"modified":"2018-05-22T20:38:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T18:38:59","slug":"how-to-improve-office-performance-in-a-virtual-machine-and-in-terminal-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"How to improve Office performance in a virtual machine and in Terminal Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Office 2013\\2016 have a lot of improvement in terms of performance, but when running on VM or on terminal server you might encounter slow performance or freeze every now and then, when doing copy&amp;paste slow or moving between charts in excel slow&#8230; the problem might be caused by &#8220;Hardware Graphics Acceleration&#8221;. you can disable this from GUI or from Registery for all users :<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-837\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/How-To-Disable-Hardware-Acceleration-In-Office-300x243.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/How-To-Disable-Hardware-Acceleration-In-Office-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/How-To-Disable-Hardware-Acceleration-In-Office.png 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can also un-check &#8220;Use sub pixel positioning to smooth fonts on screen&#8221; :<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-840\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Office-performance-options-for-a-vm-300x177.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Office-performance-options-for-a-vm-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Office-performance-options-for-a-vm-768x454.png 768w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Office-performance-options-for-a-vm-1024x605.png 1024w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Office-performance-options-for-a-vm.png 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or creating registry key at :<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-838\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/How-To-Disable-Hardware-Acceleration-registry-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/How-To-Disable-Hardware-Acceleration-registry-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/How-To-Disable-Hardware-Acceleration-registry.png 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Under : <strong>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Office\\15.0\\Common<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>create new key called : <strong>Graphics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then under <strong>Graphics<\/strong> create new Dword : <strong>DisableHardwareAcceleration and set the value to 1 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This will disable the feature to all users<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Good Luck<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Office 2013\\2016 have a lot of improvement in terms of performance, but when running on VM or on terminal server you might encounter slow performance or freeze every now and then, when doing copy&amp;paste slow or moving between charts in excel slow&#8230; the problem might be caused by &#8220;Hardware Graphics Acceleration&#8221;. you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12,1,18,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","category-tutorials","category-uncategorized","category-virtualization","category-windows","category-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}