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From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net
On Wed, 25 May 2016 04:05:57 +0700, JJ wrote:
>On Tue, 24 May 2016 19:37:21 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> I installed MS Office 2003 on my computer the other day, and since
>> then it seems to run a lot slower, and it takes 20-30 minutes to boot
>> instead of the usual 7 (Windows XP)*
>
>In my old system (1.6GHz 2-cores, 2GB RAM), it took about 2 minutes to boot.
>A 7 minutes boot seems a lot is going on, or the PC or HDD is just slow.
>
>- Office 2003 minimum RAM is 1GB. If you only have 2GB of RAM and using more
>than 500MB after boot up before Office 2003 is installed, it's likely that
>you now have very little memory space left for applications. AFAIK, Office
>installs an application that is run at startup. It sets up and pre-loads
>files that are used by any Office suite applications so that the
>applications would load faster. The disadvantage is that it consume memory,
>in expense for faster application loading. If the total memory consumption
>in the whole system is larger than the RAM capacity, there will be memory
>data swapping to and from the disk, which slows down the overall system
>performance. Fix: turn off and disable unneeded applications. i.e. no need
>to run an application at startup if it's not used every day.
Thanks for this.
I've tried using autoruns, but it doesn't seem to make much
difference.
I'm thinking of doing the following:
1) Uninstalling MS-Office 2003
2) Restoring the System ?Restore point I created before installing it
3) Restoring the backups I made of the relevant disks before
installing MS Office 2003.
Any recommendations about the best order for doing those things?
--
Steve Hayes
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