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From: james@uts.EDU.AU (J Boswell)
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Subject: Re: System 7 slowness
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Date: 20 Jun 91 14:37:42 GMT
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morgan@ooc.uva.nl (Chris Morgan/RIKS) writes:

>Hi all,

>is it just me or has everyone noticed that system 7.0 is very slow. I can
>almost count the characters of a window one by one as the OS builds it
>up.

Well I've had pretty bad response too. One thought for you though -
have you got "calculate folder sizes' turned on in the Views control panel ?
That and one of the other options, (forget which) is known to slow the 
Finder (tm) down considerably.

James