legg@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Christian Legg) (05/06/90)
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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