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Steve Rogers <thebeast@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar>
> wrote:
> 
> > Not a clue what's going on - what Mac and OS version are you using?
> 
> 6200, 8.0

Righto.

> > Any third-party extensions or suchlike?
> 
> At the moment I use:
> FreePPP 2.5v2

Should be innocent.

> ICeTEe 2

Maybe responsible.

> Default Folder 2.7.6

Should be innocent.

> Finder View Settings 1.1

Never heard of it.

> MenuChoice 2

Should be innocent.

> NoDesktopCleanup 1.5

Never heard of it.

> RAM Doubler 2.0.2

Pass - *could* be a problem, but I doubt it.  Maybe there's an
interaction between this and something else and the disk cache and stuff
playing silly buggers?

> Speed Doubler 8

Pass

> ATM 4

Could be a problem.

> & Disk Wizard 2

Should be innocent.

> - but I've been getting this effect for years with other extensions too.

> > But then again, Eudora 3.1 and Netscape Navigator both *normally* `type
> > slow'.
> 
> Yes, but for me they vary between "a bit slow" and "so slow they miss
> out characters".

The only time I've had anything *that* slow is at times like now, when
MacSoup is expiring old headers (oops - I was lying.  StuffitExpander
was de-hqxing a file at that moment).  Which does seem to imply that
you've got a process processing away for some reason.

Hmm...  Have you tried re-building your desktop and then zapping your
PRAM (with TechTool to keep time the `time in use' info)?  Just a
thought.

I think I've mentioned I used to see this sort of behaviour myself (Perf
475 Sys 7.1 no RAM Doubler or ATM or anything like that) for no apparent
reason - re-building the desktop and (in extreme cases) re-installing
the OS fixed the problem; I never found out exactly what was going on.
I strongly suspect that it's got something to do with extensions and
control panels doing something eccentric.

Rowland.

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