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Re: Any info on WinSpeed

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From: Thomas Wong
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:25
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In article <1993Jan23.001306.22695@oracle.us.oracle.com> ebosco@us.oracle.com (Eric Bosco) writes:
>cards. I have two questions:
>
>	1- Will WinSpeed work with my Trident card and

YES

>	2- Will it make any significant difference (ie 2x faster or more)
>

All I can say on this part is... I want my money back! I have a 1 Meg
plain jane ATI XL (not the Ultra, no accelerator, no nothing). So I was
on the same boat you were. So we obtain WinSpeed in hoping to increase
the performance of our Windows, especially after reading the article in
PC Mag. I should've known better than to trust those guys in PC Mag.
Anyways, we install the program. One thing I'll give it is, it was VERY
simple to install. But then, we did some tests against times we timed
before this installation, tests being things like Window startup which
include it having to draw all the stuff on the desktop to drawing a Full
Screen Printer Preview under a complicating drawing we have under Corel
Draw (one of our slowest applications that we'd love to have WinSpeed
speed up, the redraws that is). Not only did it not perform any faster,
on some tests, it performed even slower!! What a rip off. I tried it on
a number of computers in our lab too, from 386 to 486.

So my conclusion is, it may have sped up Win 3.0, but certainly NOT Win
3.1. Don't waste your money/time buying it.

Thomas.
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