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From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WfW slows down
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.215925.23923@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 Apr 91 21:59:25 GMT
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Sender: Aaron Wallace
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In article <69220023@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com> knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts) writes:
>
>>I have a 25 MHz 386 running win3.0 in enhanced mode. Sometimes, 
>>WfW (2.1?) just slows down completely. You can type a long word, and
>	  ^^^^
>	  1.1
>
>>it pauses for a couple of seconds and then bursts the text out.
>>Scrolling the page and redrawing are also irritatingly slow.
>
>This drives my wife crazy. She solves this by closing down and restarting.
>Are you using ATM?
>
>>Oh - this seems to occur often when I change fonts to bold within a
>>document. Any reason why?
>
>Hmm.. a clue.

This is a common problem.  Try doing the printer setup bit--go into the
Printer Setup menu, re-set up your printer, and quit.  Whenever I alter
my font list, WfW slows down; doing this brings things back up to speed.

Aaron Wallace