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On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 03:53:31 GMT, Dale Zopf <saccs@mediaone.net> wrote:

>Thank you for the response...
>128 megs of mem on fast machine and 192 megs on slow machine.
>Processor speed is at 200MMX
>not sure about GDI (graphic data indexes?) and Virtual memory 
>settings are default..
>Dale

Now I understand some of the problems. 

Your CPU is close to four years old. Computers have long gotten 
twice as fast each 18 to 24 months. A Intel P3 700 or comparable 
AMD Athlon is around 4 times faster than a 200MMX. The 200 
motherboard bus also cannot fully use your UDMA 100 hard drive, 
even with the Promise controller. You also need at least 10% free 
space on local and network hard drives and as little as possible in 
programs that start up automatically (no FindFast, automatic QB 
updates, etc.). 

I suspect you have a slow video card and W95 or an early W98, not 
W2000. Windows also slows sharply over time unless you use 
Norton System Works, WinTune or TweakUI to do lots of repairing 
and optimizing. Windows generally defaults to an excessively large 
swap file (virtual memory), so you should generally limit this to 4+ 
times main memory size. Do you have 10mh network cards or  the 
100mh cards you need?

The key is each new QB, Microsoft Office, etc., is made for the 
common system of its day. That means, if you upgrade programs 
you need complete new systems about every 3 years, with 2 years
preferred. 

Even with 128mb AMD K2 450 workstations, a 512mb P3 800 server 
and lots of expert consultant time, QB2001 starts slow by the time it 
gets its network data. TurboTax ProSeries starts very slow because 
the program and the data are on the network (we are looking at 1000
mh ethernet cards @$300+, with $1,000+ hubs). Once these programs, 
or the 2 to 6 other programs often running at the same time, come up 
we never wait on any of them. 

If your time has value get systems that save time. 

>Tim Teichman wrote:
>
>> How much memory do you have?  Processor speed?  Free GDI resources?  Do you
>> let Windows manage memory?
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> "Dale Zopf" <saccs@mediaone.net> wrote in message
>> news:3A995848.6416C324@mediaone.net...
>> > I thought that it had nothing to do with QB either but if I copy the data
>> file
>> > directly to one of the other PC's hard disk and run it locally instead of
>> over
>> > the betwork it still runs slow. BTW, I did install a UDMA 100, 7200 RPM HD
>> > hooked up to a Promise ULTRA 100 controller in one of the slow machines
>> and it
>> > still runs slowly locally. Everything else seems to be snappy since the HD
>> > upgrade... Just not QB.
>> > Thanks in advance for your input..
>> > Dale
>> >
>> >

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