Re: Slow performing xywrite

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Owen

I'd double check the virus sofware. I remember having some
unaccountable problems a few years ago with Mcaffee that disappeared
as soon as the resident dll was unloaded.

Paul Breeze

On Mon, 28 May 2001 09:28:34 +1000, wrote:
>The weird thing about this problem is this
>
>Recently the IT dept upgraded all of the users PCs from 64MB to
>128Mb Ram.
>The problem has been encountered much more frequently since then.
>They have also upgraded their anti virus software which I doubt
>would also
>cause probs.
>
>Another thing that might affect it, is that some of the programs
>that they
>run are located on network drives, but the slowness occurs without
>them
>even trying to access these programs, so I think we could rule that
>out.
>
>Any reason why an increase in available memory would cause Xy to
>slow??
>
>Cheers
>Owen
>
>
>
>
>** Reply to message from OHammond@xxxxxxxx on Fri, 25 May 2001
>14:02:36
>+1000
>
>I've seen this with XY4.18 DOS on Windows 2000. So far as I can
>tell, some
>of
>the display settings for things like window colors, etc. in the
>menus take
>over
>the DOS session's memory and cause everything in XY to run very,
>very slow.
>In
>at least some instances, the problem seems to be specific to
>particular
>video
>hardware. Quitting Xy and reloading it always cures the problem, at
>least
>for
>awhile.