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From: legg@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Christian Legg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Word 5 slowdown summary, by public demand
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Date: 6 May 90 05:41:10 GMT
Sender: legg@ucs.adelaide.edu.au
Organization: Computing Services, Uni of Adelaide, Australia
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By public demand, here are the replies that I received to the question
of why Word 5 could be slowing down.

1 - Disk fragmentation - Word swaps data to disk and may do auto saving too.
    These operations will slow the performance of Word on a fragmented hard
    disk.
    Solution - use a hard disk defragmenter program to tidy the disk.

2 - Memory fragmentation - Word appears to save the current document as a
    block of text along with changes that have been made to it. As time
    progresses, these changes clutter up memory.
    Solution - save regularly to compact the memory.

3 - Memory and CPU hogging TSR's and the like, including viruses.
    Solution - remove them.

4 - Word spending time doing other things, such as auto-save and auto-
    repagination.
    Solution - switch them off.

Thanks to everyone who replied. I hope that these problems and possible
solutions may be of benefit to others.

  cheers

    Christian Legg

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