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   Message 8,648 of 9,834   
   Liz McGuire to Jim Moseley   
   Re: Vista is running slowly on multiuser   
   27 Jun 07 16:44:39   
   
   From: liz@paradoxcommunity.com   
      
   I would first look to turn off oplocks and disk caching, if possible.   
      
   Just a guess.   
      
   Liz   
      
      
   Jim Moseley wrote:   
   > Greetings, all.   
   >   
   > I've got a problem running Vista (shocker!), using Pdox 9 Runtime sp3.  On   
   > a 2 computer network, with both running Vista, my app runs great as a single   
   > user from either machine.  As soon as the second one is started, however,   
   > the 'client' workstation slows to a near lockup.  The 'server' (which hosts   
   > the data) also slows, but not as dramatically.   
   >   
   > I've run Ethereal's network monitor, and the Vista performance monitoring   
   > tools, and while the slowdown is happening, there isn't an obvious cause   
   > - no resources are pinned at 100%, and very little network traffic is   
   happening.   
   >   
   > To me, it seems like there is some sort of delay built into the file sharing   
   > or locking, but that's just a WAG.   
   >   
   > Does anyone know of a magic bullet to speed up Vista?  I checked all the   
   > old XP tricks - no offline printers, etc., but could not speed it up.   
   >   
   > Note that I have hundreds of clients running all previous versions of Windows   
   > without a problem.   
   >   
   > TIA,   
   > Jim Moseley   
      
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