What's the performance monitor in Task Manager show? Is FM using lots of CPU cycles?
Art On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Valerie Lipow <vallipow at gmail.com> wrote: > I have been running FM 8 for over a month on my XP machine at work. > Beginning yesterday, FM started responding very slowly to key presses and > mouse clicks. Scrolling in the application window, document windows, or in > dialog windows seems to function normally. > > FM responds slowly with empty documents and documents of every size, with or > without images. The behavior doesn't seem associated with FM crashing. It > performs, but in really slow motion. > > I have not made any changes to the maker.ini or any other program files. > This sluggishness happens whether or not I have other applications running > on the machine. > > This problem does not occur with any other application I use here, including > Netscape, Lotus Notes, Photoshop or MS Word, so I have ruled out a hardware > problem with the mouse, keyboard, or cables. Also, I doubt this is caused by > a Windows OS or memory problem. Nevertheless, I've defragmented the hard > drive, removed all temp files, rebooted the machine, etc. > > Before I call Adobe technical support, or uninstall and reinstall FM, does > anyone recognize these symptoms as characteristic of a particular type of > Framemaker problem, whether for version 8 or any earlier version? > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Valerie Lipow > vallipow at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ -- Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358
