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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (66375)	10/13/1998 4:31:00 PM
From: Paul Merriwether	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Wow!!! .89 MAry Your anecdote doesn't say much! How much memory, what operating system, what processor? It could very well be the memory. Some ppl buy the fastest processor, but run NT 4.0 and 32megs of memory. Bad bad bad! I meant to say that ppl running with a low end 266MHz processor aren't bound by the CPU for home use. They spend more time twiddling their thumbs while their 33.6 connections, IP hops, routing delays, busy remote servers(and god knows what else) causes the delay. This argument is quite invalid in an "engineer's office" environment. There the applications ARE compute bound. I know this topic of "minimal acceptable PC" has been debated to death on this thread and others so we may just have to agree to disagree. Moreover, I am long intc. best -P

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (66375)	10/14/1998 2:29:00 AM
From: stak	Respond to of 186894

Mary, Aptiva's have a lot of extra software features that can make the boot up unbearable. one feature that your sister may consider using is "Standby" standby is in the rapid resume manager. Killing the virus check in aptiva saves a heck of a lot of time too. Maybe waiting til you hand down your PC is the best thing to do though <g>. >>Standby automatically conserves energy when you are away from your computer for a short period of time. While this function is turned on, your computer will enter Standby after it has been inactive for a specified period of time. Your computer is inactive when you do not use the mouse, keyboard, hard disk, floppy disk, serial ports (modem), or printer ports. While in Standby, your screen is blank, but your applications and the other parts of your computer continue to function using less energy. When you move the mouse, press a key, or use the hard disk, your screen will return and you can continue working with your applications.<< Same thing when I try to switch to another program (say MS Word) - it takes foreeeeeeeeever. More RAM would help here a lot more than more cpu probably . how many RAM in her 'puter?

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (66375)	10/14/1998 6:39:00 AM
From: Greg Jung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Mary the problem is most likely a cache shortage. Many Aptivas were sold starved for cache memory. This makes a huge difference. Cache memory has become much cheaper since, so if she buys as much as the main board will handle that will improve immensely. I presume the memory is at least 32MB. If not get on that to a maximum of 64 MB. 32 ought to be plenty for medium-sized MS-word task. <it seems like it takes forever just to boot the system> If the computer has undergone a lot of use then the disk drive may be fragmented. Run the defragmenter. Also the virtual memory as default in windows allows the OS to create and destroy files all over the disk. If there is a lot of disk activity while sitting doing nothing, this is symptomatic of MS puking on your system. Set virtual memory to be a single file of fixed size. Greg