Before, Microsoft Word on my PC startup very quickly and smoothly. I think it took less than 2 second to start.
Recently the time to get to a ready screen suddenly increased a lot (~20s). I think it tries to connect to something at startup, but I cannot verify what it is (tried ping, go to the address...). However the line telling that Word is trying to connect to something does not appear all the time:
And this is the current add-ins I have:
Is there someway to inspect and remove this start up problem? I know there's an option of:
winword.exe /a
This one will load Word without any add-in and not allow the program to connect to the internet. Setting up a firewall rule to block Word's ability to connect to the internet was also a suggested "solution" I've read, but those are just workarounds to the problem, not fixing it at the root.